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Aw Geez... yes. Because the geolocation of roads isn't always as precise as it might be, the "Lock on Road" feature exists to allow the GPS to guess on your location based upon where it thinks the road to be. It keeps the little icon for your position from wandering "off road" while you're driving. Until you get a ways off of a road that it knows about, it will continue to try to locate you ON the road, at 90 degrees to your current position. You must turn that feature off if you are anywhere near a road when caching. Well thank you, when it stops raining here I will go out and check it. That has to be the problem though, the cache was near the road and on other caches not near a road it was pretty accurate. Thank you again.

Why would you purchase a refurbished, discontinued model when, for the same price, you could have purchased a new Venture HC? Well, because I've purchased refurbished electronics in the past with absolutely no problems, they do still come from the factory with a one year warranty. The legend gives me turn by turn directions and accepts a micro sd card as well as other little differences for as you said the same price. As for the unit being discontinued I have yet to see a problem with that. Just this minor accuracy problem.

Yes I have detailed maps, and yes lock on road was set, will that make a difference? Where can I check the firmware version, during start up? Thanks

I've read similar posts about the accuracy of the Garmin legend, which is what prompted me to post this about my inaccuracy. Thanks

Post above mentions the most important starting point. Depending upon where you live, numbers like those (and worse) can occur if your GPS is set to the old NAD27 datum instead of the WGS84 datum. Over the years, the idea of "where things really are" has moved around a bit, and geocachers all assume the newer datum. Your eTrex "Setup" allows you to select this. First assure you're on WGS84. Yes, datum is set to wgs 84, position format is hddd mm.mmm. Anything else I could have missed?

Positin format is set to hddd mm.mmm and thedatum is wgs 84. I was really hoping I did miss something.

My wife and I recently started geocaching and immediatly loved it. I found a Lowrance ifinder H2O for $60.00 and we got started, the only thing I didn't like was the lcd screen, and if I was to download anything from my computer I would need to spend another $50.00 for the cable. So I found a refurbished Etrex Cx for $120.00 with all the cables. But I find the Lowrance to be more accurate, and I mean alot, like 50-90 feet. I keep hoping something is not setup correctly. With the Lowrance we use the compass for findingthe cache, and the compas on the Etrex is not even close sometimes. I thought maybe someone with more GPS experience might be able to help, so here I am.