volks-man: i visited the cache site today with 'ski' to try and find the ammo box. no dice. record rains and flooding during the winter have apparently removed the cache from it's location.
so, what it boils down to is either mother nature swept it away or some crazy enviro-nut snatched it out of the sensitve cypress swamp (rolls eyes).
many thanks to those who found it in the years it lasted!