From the SLAGA page (which you probably already mined, but here ya go...):
The Original 'Cache Machine'
On July 28, 2002, SLAGA members witnessed fellow geocacher BruceS find his
1,000th cache. [Picture Archive]
<http://share.shutterfly.com/share/received/welcome.sfly?fid=8124f787500f647c&sid=8CYsmjhw1ZtFQ>
Because of the limited number of geocaches available at that time in the
history of the hobby, finding 1,000 caches was an amazing accomplishment.
BruceS normally planned his caching trips so that he was hunting the first
cache of the day at sunrise, and would hunt caches until after dark. Sometimes
he would sprint from cache to cache without stopping to eat, and camping
wherever he ended the day. By the end of 2002, BruceS had found almost all
caches within 150 miles of St. Louis and had to drive several hundred miles to
get to caches he hadn't found yet. BruceS's 1,000th find was a cache
calledOnondoga
S.P.<http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=f74e4f87-7061-4e2b-b337-03344b87e8f9>
SLAGA recognized his accomplishment by presenting him with a gold ammo box at
a picnic held in Blue Springs C.A. immediately after his milestone find.
http://slaga.org/homepage/about-slaga.html#_Toc231742900
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From: geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on
behalf of Ethan Rogers <gm_mastery@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2016 2:34 PM
To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [GeoStL] Geocaching Records
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Hello Slaga,
I am working on building a challenge cache and I want to include some history
for the cache page. Does anyone know if BruceS was the first to reach 1000
finds? What about 5000?
-Ethan
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