Do you notice that I used my flashlight as a fill light?

The ammo can was a bit more expensive at about $7ea but I could tell right away that the ammo can was far more robust than the plastic containers.

One complaint about ammo can goecahes is that they can be hard to open.  This is certainly true but you can make it easier to open using a simple technique.  Open the ammo can.  Find the biggest adjustable wrench you have and close it down until it slips over the lip of the ammo can lid.  Gently bend the lip away from the ammo can.  Be careful not to go too crazy with this.  You must need it a little looser.

The ammo can comes in the typical army green but I like to spray on a bit of a camouflage patter using camouflage paint.  I recommend you use camouflage paint as it produces a mat finish.  Put the ammo can geocache in a shady part of the forest and it will be very hard to see, unless you have good coordinates.

An ammo can geocache is also larger than your typical plastic container.  This means it can hold more swag.  The swag helps keep the kids excited.  It’s still a treasure hunt for them.  It’s for this reason that I’ll be trying to place more ammo can geocaches.

Ammo Can Geocache with some swag

Are micros in the woods too hard? 2/3 DNF'd this cache on the first day.

I placed this cache today. I found a small piece of silver birch that was hollow inside. I filled the inside with expanding foam so that it would keep it’s shape and stuck a painted match container inside. The expansion of the foam pushed it out a little further than I wanted but it is still serviceable.