Yep, I agree. People who want to complain will. Part of the issue is that noobs coming on the scene don’t get that super tight coords were not easy to get even as much as a few years ago and they expect to find stuff AT GROUND ZERO.

I have made an issue about a few cache location’s accuracy in the past but if I make an issue of it I also post “better coords” at the same time….my frustration with loose coords makes me want to help those who follow me…the cache owner then has the option of being a responsible owner and update the coords or ignore them and leave the coords loose and frustrating….so long story short if the best one has is an inaccurate unit they can update the coords if better ones are posted later on or choose to ignore the frustration of future searchers.

@Lostby7 wrote:

Yep, I agree. People who want to complain will. Part of the issue is that noobs coming on the scene don’t get that super tight coords were not easy to get even as much as a few years ago and they expect to find stuff AT GROUND ZERO.

I have made an issue about a few cache location’s accuracy in the past but if I make an issue of it I also post “better coords” at the same time….my frustration with loose coords makes me want to help those who follow me…the cache owner then has the option of being a responsible owner and update the coords or ignore them and leave the coords loose and frustrating….so long story short if the best one has is an inaccurate unit they can update the coords if better ones are posted later on or choose to ignore the frustration of future searchers.

I agree. Another cacher can post coords that they deem more accurate if they are off by 50 feet. If they are only off by 20-25 feet… “Welcome to the Game!”

As far as you using an older model… if it works…USE IT! There should be no need to rush out and buy a new one. If it works for you, that is all that should matter.

I have done my share of grumbling over bad coords. I don’t mind so much if there is a clue and/or few hiding places. I start getting frustrated when there is hundreds of hiding places and bad coords. I know, I can’t say much because I have yet to place a cache. This part of the game will have to go by your rules seeing as it is your cache. However, if you are concerned about the coords being more accurate with an older less precise gps, would it make a difference if you were to take an average of different readings over maybe a half dozen trips? With no cache placing experience under my belt, I wouldn’t mind knowing.

Good point. I’ll have to keep that in mind.

I would not let the fact that you don’t have a newer GPS keep you from hiding caches. The Garmin 12s are plenty accurate, and I used one to hide my first half dozen caches (plus find maybe my first 200). When I went back later to with new equipment, my original coordinates taken with the 12 were almost dead on (10 – 20 feet).

Now if you are going to hide a nano is heavy tree cover maybe it won’t give accurate enough coordinates for some folks. But if you hide a nano in the middle of the woods you’ll probably hear complaints about other things other than the coordinates as well. 🙂 A container along the lines of your GC17H0R doesn’t need very accurate coordinates so you might want to hide something like that. 😉

We have a new cool GPSr, but I still use my little yellow eTrex when I’m caching sans Trekkin’. He grumbled a lot about it when we were using it awaiting the arrival of the new one, but we’ve found lots of caches with it. And placed a few, too.

I think this game can be whatever a person makes of it. Yes, some of us use our discretionary income to enjoy the game, but the core (at least for us) is being taken to places we might not discover otherwise, challenges we never knew were available for us to try. Trekkin’ was telling my dad just yesterday that compared to his historical trekking hobby, geocaching has him out in the woods and exploring remote locations WAY more than trekking ever has.

Thanks for the cool link!
Look at it this way. It’s the same thing in reverse. I take my new fangled GPSr and plot a cache and it’s approx. 15 feet accurecy. Someone with an older modles comes out and they tell me that I’m off by 50 feet. And there is many factors. Winter, sping, summer, fall. Rain, clouds, snow, the time a day that there are satallites over head too. There not always the same amount up above. And don’t forget wildlife. They tend to move a cache once on awhile.

Here is what happend to me last week. Lloyd Fa,ily from the Twin Cities was up. He has a Colorado. He hit about 2 dozen caches. He goes to one of mine that is pretty easy find. People have been logging finds all summer so I haven’t gone to check it. He logs it as a DNF, says it’s not there. I just happen to run into him. He tells me he thinks it gone, Said his Colorado had him going about 50 feet into the river. I’m like huh? 😯 😕 I tell him it’s under the tree and in something. He tells me, his GPSr wasno where near any trees. I tell him I check it out.
I pull up, go down the hill to the location and it looks like I-94 heading under the tree. I duck under the tree, caches is right where it should be and log it that way. Next day he does log it as a find but with help as he was still off but that he found it with the info I gave him. It’s a case that his Colorado was just plan screwed up.