Bead-Gunsight Silver Blue Green Glass Triangle 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 6-Aug-22 this one has survived for 7.1 years and had been moved by 23 cachers, for an average drop every 113 days. Please keep it moving!

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.

Gunsight, in southern Stephens County, was named for the nearby Gunsight Mountains.  Gunsight was known on the wagon road between Fort Griffin and Stephenville in 1858.  However, it was settled until 1879.  Gunsight gained a post office in 1880 at J. W. Shepard's store. The community's population was fifty in 1890 and grew to 150 in 1920 because of the oil boom and the town's location near the Wichita Falls and Southern Railway.  During the 1920s Gunsight lost its railroad station and post office.  The population was reported as six from 1980 through 2000.