What's your favorite cache container?

[3KCACHER]

My favorite are ammo boxes. I'm interested to hear what your favorites are.

[+Postholedigger]

35mm film canisters under lamp post skirts.

[+Cachefoxxe]

I love creative ones. Ones that make you think about them and have to figure out how to open them.

[+BAMBOOZLE]

Toss up between ammo cans and match safes.

[+Two Ton Whale]

Grey lidded 35mm at the base of a tree under a stick. But only if they have a sodden log with at least a few pieces of mould growing on them.

[Justin.jankowski]

Durability and waterproofing considered, I like the standard lock and lock boxes. Creativity considered I like recycled glucose test strip tubes, the newer ones have a pop off "hinge" type lid that is pretty water proof and they are small enough to hide nearly anywhere.

[+Max and 99]

My two favorite containers that I hid were:

 

1. an OREO cookie game piece (you can fold up a log and hide it inside!)

 

2. A very very cool wine bottle-size blue glass root beer bottle with a Dragon design on it, that we got from the Medieval Fair. I had to archive the cache due to erosion in the area, but that was a super cool container which I'd love to use again sometime. It had a stopper and a hinge and it was very tricky to open and close that bottle.

 

I like finding lock-n-locks better than ammo cans since sometimes the ammo cans are hard to open and sometimes the lid slips out of place and I have to figure out how to reassemble it.

[+popokiiti]

Anything dry and well maintained.....

[+C&Kskirball]

I just started and all the ones i have sound have been film cans so i guess it has to be those but im hoping tomorrow to lay my hands on a few different kinds!!!

[+briansnat]

Ammo box.

 

And not really a getting started topic so moving to the general forum

[+SwineFlew]

my fav is a cache that is well maintenance and keep water out.

 

Ammo can isnt on my top of the list, I find them, yep, BORING.

[+AATH]

Mine is anything with digital camo duct tape on it just because I'm still amazed that they actually made digital camo duct tape. Haha

[4wheelin_fool]

Grey lidded 35mm at the base of a tree under a stick. But only if they have a sodden log with at least a few pieces of mould growing on them.

 

They are a little crunchy but pretty good with a bit of hot sauce and a cold glass of Yuengling.

[+Mudfrog]

I've had very good luck with the half and gallon size plastic storage containers sold at wally world. They are in the tupperware aisle of the store. They have screw on lids with wide mouths and are inexpensive. Have several out and can't remember ever having any problem with water getting inside any of them.

[+Gitchee-Gummee]

2. A very very cool wine bottle-size blue glass root beer bottle with a Dragon design on it, that we got from the Medieval Fair. I had to archive the cache due to erosion in the area, but that was a super cool container which I'd love to use again sometime. It had a stopper and a hinge and it was very tricky to open and close that bottle.

 

Dunno 'bout the bottle, but it is a Grolsch stopper/cap. Grolsch Brewery circa 1650 or so, still producing.

Grolsch-style caps are still available. Some homebrewers use 'em.

 

If the bottle is early original, it is worth something. Not likely however, being blue glass.

Edited June 1, 2012 by Gitchee-Gummee

[+Isonzo Karst]

my fav is a cache that is well maintenance and keep water out.

 

Ammo can isnt on my top of the list, I find them, yep, BORING.

 

SwinefFlew, there must not be much Hamstercaching going on in your part of the world...

 

4wheelin_fool, you wrote of film cans,"They are a little crunchy but pretty good with a bit of hot sauce and a cold glass of Yuengling." Film cans? though I can appreciate the mold may build to a level of nutritive excellence, your post calls up Hamstercaching to me, as well.. (a pepper in the body cavity, bacon wrapped, fried, and boy those little guys slide down fine...) Of course, half the time someone has swapped a cockroach for a hamster, the usual swag degradation; cockroaches being harder to prepare.

But no worse then film cans...and roaches will stand up a long time in an ammo can. Great for those remote, rarely found hides.

 

I'm interested to hear what your favorites are

 

As an owner, I like ammo cans, minimal maintenance.

 

As a finder, I'm not picky. My preference is for any maintained container - damp or even wet is okay, just about everything will be at summer's end - but year old soggy experiments in mold growth aren't enticing.

My maintenance expectations aren't terribly high either...but if the last 4 finders have whined about the broken lid, and the unsignable log, then it's really time to for the cache owner to act.

Edited June 1, 2012 by Isonzo Karst

[ll JK ll]

Ammo cans. They're reliable and big enough to hold a decent size log book and several trade items.

[+JL_HSTRE]

Ammo can: simple, durable, waterproof.

[+DragonsWest]

Ammo boxen

 

after that, I like placing those Therapak medium canisters. They're nice size, waterproof and durable.

[ll JK ll]

I also like Decon containers because they're small enough for a good hide and can hold items.

 

I'm not sure how well the seal is if one were to be placed on the ground on its side. The couple I've found hanging from tree limbs were dry as could be.

[+Straight-Cache-Homey]

Dunno 'bout the bottle, but it is a Grolsch stopper/cap. Grolsch Brewery circa 1650 or so, still producing.

Grolsch-style caps are still available. Some homebrewers use 'em.

 

I homebrew. They're called swingtops. They work great.

[+hzoi]

2. A very very cool wine bottle-size blue glass root beer bottle with a Dragon design on it, that we got from the Medieval Fair. I had to archive the cache due to erosion in the area, but that was a super cool container which I'd love to use again sometime. It had a stopper and a hinge and it was very tricky to open and close that bottle.

 

Dunno 'bout the bottle, but it is a Grolsch stopper/cap. Grolsch Brewery circa 1650 or so, still producing.

 

Not just Grolsch. It's a swing-top bottle -- ceramic lid with a rubber gasket, held on by metal hinge -- and they are still pretty common in Europe.

 

 

I always associate Allgäuer Brauhaus's Büble Bier with the swing top. The old ad campaign was "Plop das Büble" (literally, "pop the boy"). Kind of odd when you sit back and think about it.

 

For micros, my favorite container is the PET preform: I've had some sit for a couple years without being found and the log has been pristine. Not a claim that most micros can echo, including match safes.

 

For smalls, decon containers work ok, IF people close them correctly. (Which, unfortunately, doesn't always happen.)

 

For regular containers, nothing beats an ammo can.

[+ras_oscar]

Pellican boxes are the best, followed by lock and locks, then its a toss up between decon containers and ammo cans. Waterproof is the most important feature.

[+Mudfrog]

Pellican boxes are the best, followed by lock and locks, then its a toss up between decon containers and ammo cans. Waterproof is the most important feature.

 

I've come across quite a few decon containers that were wet inside.

[+Mr. Wilson & a Mt. Goat]

I like small camouflaged Lock'n'Lock containers, like this:

[+The_Incredibles_]

Anything dry and well maintained.....

 

Yep. And with a log that you *don't* have to roll up.

[AZcachemeister]

One with a dry, un-signed log in it.

[+TerraViators]

Mine is anything with digital camo duct tape on it just because I'm still amazed that they actually made digital camo duct tape. Haha

Right, and that stuff actually sticks out like a sore thumb.