Bead-Cut and Shoot Blue Gold Glass Swirl TB

I maintain records on my trackables. They have the goal to circulate more than five years and to be moved by at least 25 cachers. That is a target rate of five drops per year for five years, or a drop every 73 days. The average drop rate of my trackables in the US is 124 days, in Europe it is 71 days. As of 23-Jul-23 this trackable had survived for 9.0 years but it had been moved by only 3 cachers, for an average drop every 1095 days. Please keep it moving, then drop it in a safe place!

No permission is needed to leave the U.S. While in the U.S., please drop it in a Premium Member only OR a rural cache near a busy trail or road. Do not place it in an urban cache or abandon it at a caching event where there is no security. Transport the bug in the original plastic bag for as long as the bag lasts; the bag keeps the trackable clean and dry, protects the number and prevents tangling with other items. Otherwise, take the trackable anywhere you wish.

This is one of a series of large beads obtained from different places and converted into travel bugs.  They are named for Texas towns with interesting names or histories.

Cut and Shoot is six miles east of Conroe and forty miles north of Houston in eastern Montgomery County.  It was apparently named after a 1912 community confrontation that almost led to violence.  According to the different versions of the story, the dispute was either over the design of a new steeple for the town's only church, the issue of who should be allowed to preach there, or conflicting land claims among church members.  A small boy at the scene reportedly declared, "I'm going to cut around the corner and shoot through the bushes in a minute!" The boy's phrase apparently remained in residents' minds and was eventually adopted as the town's name.  Population statistics were not reported for the community until the mid-1970s, when the number of residents was fifty.  By 1980 the incorporated community reported a population of 809 and had built a new city hall and supported a school and several businesses.  Cut and Shoot had a post office by the mid-1980s.  The community's population was reported as 903 in 1990. In 2000 the population was 1,158.