The August A. Busch Memorial Conservation Area was purchased by the Missouri Department of Conservation in 1947 from the federal government. A donation of $70,000 toward the purchase of the area was made by Mrs. August A. Busch, Sr. as a memorial to her late husband. The conservation area includes a wide range of outdoor facilities, including a public lodge building that houses a visitor and activity center, a shooting range, a field archery range, and 38 numbered fishing lakes. It also allows (with license) public fishing, hunting, and dog training and hosts field and retriever trials during winter months.
The cache is placed at the entrance to the shooting range with trap/skeet facilities, a shotgun patterning range, and a rifle and pistol range. These facilities are open to the public at a nominal fee for sighting in firearms or practicing. Hours of operation available at the area headquarters.
This cache placed with permission from the Missouri Department of Conservation. For more information about the August A. Busch Conservation Area, please visit the MO Dept of Conservation web site.
NOTE: PLEASE LOG YOUR DNF! I know some geocachers are reluctant to log unsuccessful attempts so that they don't spoil their find ratio. However, without DNF log entries the owners (like me) can't determine whether to raise the difficulty, describe the cache more explicitly, and/or add more hints.
FTF honors go to pkupmn98, who retrieved the cache (with his wife and 19-month-old daughter) only hours after it was posted...and only one day after he'd signed up as a premium Groundspeak member! Congrats to pkupmn98 and happy caching!