MnGCA

NYSandy23 · Geocacher Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 162 Location: Eagan

I have seen TB's with more than 75,000 miles so some do keep traveling. While I don't have too many TB's (one active, one Coin missing, one TB Missing) so 'm only batting about 33%, I am still game to send them out. They are still fun to follow, even if only for the one time someone picks it up and makes a comment. So I tried setting free another to compete in the Great TB Race of 2009 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=bf388727-c52a-4be9-aaa1-58853466068d

Perhaps this one will stay around a while.
_________________
If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.--Lou Brock

TECGeoJim · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 8:20 pm Post subject:

I have about 200 activated TBs and/or geocoins. More than 150 of them have been released into geocaches. Many have disappeared but some have reappeared after 6 month or more of inactivity. I plan to continue placing my travelers into caches and to continue moving others.

AerosmithPA · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 5:21 pm Post subject:

Youch, this may be an all time record for futility. I launched a TB while in NC in September, then put the cache onto my watchlist. The cache is listed as being exactly 1000.0 miles from my home coords, so that is why I chose that cache.

Anyway, I placed the TB on 9/16 and watched...and waited. Finally, on 1/1 the cache saw two visitors (this cache is in a parking lot in a city). The finders said the small container was full, but nothing of taking or leaving a TB. Today, the next visitor reported the TB is not there. It is very possible the TB will have only the log of me dropping it down before I mark it as missing. Oh well.

I will continue to launch TB's and give them as stocking stuffers. It's the chance you take.

Nitro_R/T · Geocacher Joined: 17 Aug 2008 Posts: 22 Location: Rogers

So if you had a TB that had been MIA for a year (or long enough to figure that it's never coming back), would you be able to redo it and "grab it from somewhere else" with the copy tag?

eagleyes · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 8:07 am Post subject:

I do it all the time- I have blank metal dog tag blanks- I just grab the bug from wherever it is- after trying to establish contact with the cacher listed as having it or asking the cache owner to see if it is in the listed cache. I have had responsible cache owners notify me that the bug is MIA from the cache due to the cache being destroyed or muggled. I have also renamed the tag and added a different hitch hiker - noting on the bug's page why I have done it. I engrave the number and name on the tag.
_________________
LIFE IS GOOD;CABIN LIFE IS GREAT

EPMinnesota · Past MnGCA Board Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 1908

joboo · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 10:05 am Post subject:

speedysk1 · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 11:44 am Post subject:

Pear Head · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:03 pm Post subject:

eagleyes · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:20 pm Post subject:

I have given up on the plastic bags- and replaced many of other bugs- We hook the bug, hitch hiker, and a small laminated instruction sheet ( about 3x3 inches-) together with an electrical tie and hope for the best. keeping the copy tag lets me clone them easily-
_________________
LIFE IS GOOD;CABIN LIFE IS GREAT

AerosmithPA · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 2:45 pm Post subject:

I ran into a situation once where the owner sent out the copy of a TB apparently before the first one was actually lost. I grabbed the TB, then when I went to grab it virtually, I discovered the TB was also in the hands of a cacher in another state. There were two TB's with the same number. Very confusing and frustrating. Needless also.

eagleyes · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 3:20 pm Post subject:

i had a Tbug go missing for years- so grabbed and cloned it and sent it out- the next year- the old one showed up in Enland and the clone was in TN. so I mailed the one in TN a new Tbug tag with new number and renamed it and he sent it on its way- no problem.
_________________
LIFE IS GOOD;CABIN LIFE IS GREAT

joboo · Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 12:44 pm Post subject:

Tuxedo Duck · Geocacher Joined: 08 Mar 2007 Posts: 40

About two years ago I discovered a geocoin or travelbug that was not in the cache that it was previously logged into. Another cacher accused me of stealing it.
I went back to my logs, to verify where I had discovered it. Who knows where it went, who took it, etc.
Since then, I rather move tb's and coins than post discoveries.

Pear Head · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:34 pm Post subject: Re: lost or missing