Missing Travel Bug Tags

[+Streetstock96]

I recently released a new TB and about a month later it still hadn't moved so I went to retrieve it and move it to another cache. What I found was just the bug. Someone had removed the tb tag. My question is: can I rerelease the bug with the duplicate tag that I still have in my possesion that has "copy" stamped on it?

[Keystone]

I am moving this thread from the Geocaching Topics forum to the Travel Bug forum.

[BCProspectors]

Yes, you can re-release the copy tag. Watch your TB page carefully and delete any logs of the original tag if they appear. Having two of the same TB tag out in circulation is not permitted.

[+mchaos]

I don't know if its legal but I found a TB once that was a scanned copy print out of the actual tag, laminated with a piece of card paper in the middle to make it rigid.

 

I suppose if you only have the copy left, you may not want to set it out into the world beings its the last one.

[+Gitchee-Gummee]

I don't know if its legal but I found a TB once that was a scanned copy print out of the actual tag, laminated with a piece of card paper in the middle to make it rigid.

 

I suppose if you only have the copy left, you may not want to set it out into the world beings its the last one.

Not really all that uncommon to find such things.

 

IMO, the owner should let the thing die instead of running it on and on and on with proxy cards.

 

Geez, it's not like a set of TB tags are all that expensive.

 

Perhaps there is another reason that TB owners do that, if so it eludes me.

[+silksmybaby]

I don't know if its legal but I found a TB once that was a scanned copy print out of the actual tag, laminated with a piece of card paper in the middle to make it rigid.

 

I suppose if you only have the copy left, you may not want to set it out into the world beings its the last one.

Not really all that uncommon to find such things.

 

IMO, the owner should let the thing die instead of running it on and on and on with proxy cards.

 

Geez, it's not like a set of TB tags are all that expensive.

 

Perhaps there is another reason that TB owners do that, if so it eludes me.

 

What may not be expensive to you could be an entire village year's wages! Well not that dramatic but you know what I mean. Also it could be a mileage thing. If my bug traveled 10,000 miles I would want it to continue traveling as long as I could!

[+Sagefox]

 

IMO, the owner should let the thing die instead of running it on and on and on with proxy cards.

 

 

I tend to agree with this. Once our Copy Tag disappears I put the tb to bed for good.

 

Now copies of geocoins are another matter because there is no copy tag. But... I believe I would retire the coin rather than use a xerox copy.

 

In either case, there is a chance that the original will show up in a year or two. I let ours age a long while before sending out a Copy Tag.

[+NanCycle]

I don't know if its legal but I found a TB once that was a scanned copy print out of the actual tag, laminated with a piece of card paper in the middle to make it rigid.

 

I suppose if you only have the copy left, you may not want to set it out into the world beings its the last one.

Not really all that uncommon to find such things.

 

IMO, the owner should let the thing die instead of running it on and on and on with proxy cards.

 

Geez, it's not like a set of TB tags are all that expensive.

 

Perhaps there is another reason that TB owners do that, if so it eludes me.

 

Because I can, and because I want to. And because I don't care what you think.

 

[+BlueDeuce]

I don't know if its legal but I found a TB once that was a scanned copy print out of the actual tag, laminated with a piece of card paper in the middle to make it rigid.

 

I suppose if you only have the copy left, you may not want to set it out into the world beings its the last one.

Not really all that uncommon to find such things.

 

IMO, the owner should let the thing die instead of running it on and on and on with proxy cards.

 

Geez, it's not like a set of TB tags are all that expensive.

 

Perhaps there is another reason that TB owners do that, if so it eludes me.

 

The day we start playing that proxy game with travel bugs is the day I come to your house and boot your rear end, then I'm going to continue booting you around the room while you tell me each one doesn't matter because it's only a proxy.

 

Travel bugs never die. That stamped metal tag is not what makes a travel bug. It is the mission, the journey, the adventure, and the fun.

 

Now, I am going to research the original OP question while strapping on a pair of waffle stompers.