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@-cheeto- wrote:

I release them with the hopes that someone will enjoy finding one for the first time. I release them with the hopes that someone will actually follow it’s mission and log that they had fun doing so. Hopefully they will enjoy moving one of mine around. I don’t hope for a coin to move 35,000 miles. I hope for someone to enjoy moving one of these around like I did for the first time. I enjoy reading the “trackables” logs almost more than find logs on my caches because those who do move them along and take the time to log them usually have the most interesting stories to tell!

For me, Geocoins are as much a part of the geocaching experience as ammo cans and a gps are.

Excatly how I feel only said way better then what I have written.

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When I check the physical logs of my caches to the online logs I find pretty regular were people have signed the paper log but never logged it online. Only one time I didnt find a name on the paper log but was logged online and I gave them the benenfit of the dought on that one.

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@LDove wrote:

If they were better packaged and marked when first sent out, I think a few less would get stolen.

As I said near the beginning of this thread I have drilled and tagged coins and coins not marked at all and the ones with the metal tag attached stating it is not a collectable or swag but a coin on a mission and needs to be logged and moved onto another cache disappear all most as fast as the untagged coins.

Going back and looking at all the coins of mine that are missing or have showed up later it seems the biggest problem is that people take and move them without logging them or logging them incorrectly.

I got a notification yesterday that a person discovered one of my coins and that they were going to move it to another part of the country. I mailed them questioning if they took the coin or left it and explained the correct way to log coins but have not heard back from them yet.

I don’t buy as many coins as I use to just because money is tight for us right now. But when I do get a coin I buy two of them, one for my collection and one to be sent out traveling. Yeah I know it will eventually go missing but the enjoyment I get out of the logs and seeing where it travels to still far out weighs the dissapointment of when it goes missing.

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@LDove wrote:

I have one of the Starfish geocoins and I wear it as a necklace for people to discover.

My starfish geocoin had traveled over 26,000 miles before it was lost in a cache that got muggled.

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I have sent out over 300 geocoins. Some are drilled and tagged and some are not. About half of these coins are now missing. Some disappeared from the first cache I placed them in and others traveled many miles beforre being lost. If they are tagged or not doesn’t seem to make much difference on if they disappear of not. I even had one coin that the person stole the tag and left the coin. Go figure….

It is quite a disappointment when they disappear but the fun of watching them travel and read what is posted about them far exceeds the “bum” factor of when a coin is reported missing.

Then there is the real fun and excitement when an occasional lost coin shows back up again many months or years later.

And what the coin looks like doesn’t seem to matter if they are stolen or not. Some of what I thought were the ugliest coins I have sent out were lost and I got a lot of really cool looking coins that are still traveling around yet.

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But once you start getting paid and have to do something you usually slowly loose all the fun and enjoyment in it.

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People who take and keep geocoins or who move them with out logging them.

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@sandlanders wrote:

Got a ton of new cache notifications in the area yesterday and today–while we were a couple of hundred miles from home!

43 for me and I am a thousand miles from home. Isn’t that so fusterating when that happens. 😥 👿

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My local DNR office usually doesn’t get back to me about them unless there is a problem so I just submit my caches for review at the same time I mail the form to the DNR.

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@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:

I have “Wisconsin Oddities,” but I also looked at “Weird Wisconsin” and “Strange Wisconsin” at the bookstore today.

I have all three books and they all pretty much cover all the same things.

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@zo0g wrote:

I’ve also wanted a caching plate but I don’t know what to get!! My first choice was actually “TNLNSL” but now that I know that one’s gone

Yeah that one is mine.

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I dropped one of mine off in Virginia and it made one big 900 mile jump to Oklahoma and there it sits waiting to be picked up again.

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Commen sense seams to be missing from most people now a days. I mean putting the geocache stickers on the containers isnt going to do a bit of good. Just look at the incident I think it was last year in Boston when their bomb squad blew up a suspicious box that was chained to a light pole. Ends up the box was a traffic counting device that the city of Boston had placed there. So no matter what we do to our cache containers it will have no effect until people start using commen sense again.

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………..drives 27 miles in a raging blizzard at 10pm to get a FTF.

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@Lostby7 wrote:

I made a double post err……

Double post? Should be six post.

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