best container

[TheCacheSeeker]

What's the best container?

[+Ecylram]

For what kind of hide?

[+worstcaster]

I've had good luck with Lock and Lock brand tupperware. Ammo cans are good too. if you are looking for micros the bison tubes seem to hold up well.

[AZcachemeister]

Overall, the venerable ammo can is the best container.

Yet, there are certain situations and locations where an ammo can is not appropriate.

Nobody can make a serious recommendation without actually visiting the location.

That being said, the 'biggest waterproof container that can be securely hidden at the site' is the final answer.

[+WRASTRO]

In Western Washington I have had the best success with ammo cans, lock n locks and bison tubes for durability and moisture resistance. The lock n locks seems to be less likely to disappear.

[knowschad]

Ammo cans are virtually indestructible and generally very waterproof. Several of us have found them after fires have burned through the area... contents burned or melted, but the can still intact.

 

Lock 'n Locks are about as watertight, but they can crack in cold weather and from what I hear, plastics don't hold up well in high UV climates like Arizona/Nevada.

 

In my neck of the woods (Minnesota) at least, well-cleansed peanut butter and mayo jars hold up pretty darned well, especially considering that they are free.

 

For micros, bison tubes, metal pill containers from the drugstore, and $1 matchstick containers are probably tops.

[+entogeek]

Rite-in-the-Rain log book inna freezer ziplock inna Lock 'n Lock inna ammo can.

Overkill? You betcha.

[+A & J Tooling]

81mm mortar ammo boxes are good. 120mm ammo tubes are also good and both are water tight.

[+StarBrand]

Ammoboxes

Lock-n-Lock

Match Safes - w/o-ring

[+briansnat]

Ammoboxes

Lock-n-Lock

Match Safes - w/o-ring

 

And bottle preforms

[Sniper752]

I have used:

Penut Butter Jars

Empty perscription bottles

Airborne® medicine tubes

these micros from instructables: http://www.instructables.com/id/Micro-Geocache-Container/

an altoids tin (which is not worth it: i am going to replace it soon because it rusts too much)

and i am about to post one that will be an empty IbuProfen bottle

[+rav_bunneh]

I think the plastic pineapple is the most perfect geocache container ever. I mean.. come on! It's a pineapple!

Edited April 8, 2011 by rav_bunneh

[+roziecakes]

Ammo Cans, Lock N Locks, PB Jars = Awesome. I am no longer hiding micros, although I do still own a few. The driest that I have found have been bisons. I tried a match container with an O-ring for one of my caches that you have to fill up with water to retrieve the container, and I just got a report of a wet log... grumble grumble. I will be replacing it with a bison.

[+the4dirtydogs]

We like using Ammo cans and PB or Mayo jars. I haven't tried lock-n-lock containers yet but I hear they're pretty good too.