Crask422

I disposed of the bullet, it was brand new so if I had a gun I would not have a problem firing it, and not long after I found it I saw a cop car parked in the shopping center and asked him if it would be the right thing for me to give it to him, he said he didn't want it, good cop. That kind of caught me off guard. Anyway the bullet is gone and I loved all the different directions this thread went especially the comment about passing it down from generation to generation because no one knew how to get rid of it. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

I remove business cards or any commercial advertising I find in caches, they annoy me. Just never thought I would be dealing with a bullet.

Just for the record I did take it and I felt bad about not having anything of the same value, I didn't run to the police, just signed the log and put it back. Quite frankly it made the hide-a-key difficult to open so you should have seen the look on my wife's face when she finally slid it opened it was like a spent shell being fired. I assumed the rules were no ammo that is why I took it. I got a very nice note from the CO about removing it so I felt I did a good thing. I just posted for opinions and I love the fact there were 32. Thank you folks and Happy Thanksgiving to the rAmerican posters

Made a find of a hide-key in a shopping center and much to my surprise a live bullet popped out when I opened it. Thoughts?

I'm Crask422, well I was until my wife decided to join in now we are Crask422. My brother turned me on to geocaching one day when I was visiting his family up north. He had some great stories and drove me by lots of his local caches to show me how they very. That was about 5 years ago. I ran my total up to 56 over the next couple of months then I would go in spurts to pick some up every other month. I would use the hobby as a way of spending time with myself this past thanksgiving I saw him and mentioned I had got to 200 and I was on his heels, I had taken over a year off. I know that because my statistics page loves telling me that. Well that weekend I got the bug again and I just got, we just got our 900th last Friday and set our first three over the weekend. I have become obsessed with making the perfect cache, I have seen enough light poles and vine covered walls to last a lifetime. I have been lurking on here the last 6 months looking for strategies and ideas, but it usually ends up in a flame war so I just stay out of it. Back to lurking, carry on.

I am about to release an App for finding benchmarks. It's target audience is land surveyors but would work for this as well. The reason I bring it up is that it will work in "real" time as it queries when you tell it to and then you can post recovery information and pictures that will go to the NGS AND USGS right away in their format. They love the recoveries they get from geocachers since there are more of them than land surveyors. I'm not pimping the APP since I won't give the name but I think you and other benchmark hunters are doing the government a service by checking on their properties. When I'm not working I love stumbling across a benchmark and I always point it out to my wife. The coolest one I have seen is at the front of the bureau of engraving in DC. Like caching I wouldn't have gone there if it wasn't to see the benchmark. Happy hunting The DSWorld submissions go into a queue and have to be manually reviewed before they're added into the system (according to Dave Doyle, NGS' Chief Geodetic Surveyor). I suspect with the popularity of benchmark hunting growing, they get quite a backlog of submissions.