Paintball

[Legion]

I often play a little game with myself...i like to place my stuff in very safe places...so safe i cannot even find them again. Somewhere in my shop is a tactcal glock 17 but i'll be damned if i can find it. im sure its very safe though.

[Railgun]

I knew I wasn't the only one but I didn't realize that it was such a BIG club.....

I've literally put a part down, taken 5 minutes to prepare some other stuff so I could do something to the part and then looked in shock at the "spot" and it's gone...... Much blueness of the air then occurs and if one of those gnomes was to stick their head out at that point? Temporary insanity would get me aquitted I'm sure.....

[RealtorTommy]

I always blame it on gremlins....then walk away and come back and there it is right where I looked before..........

[Jaan]

I almost never loose anything, but when I do it's psychological. I see something and think "I'd better put this someplace where I can find it again because I don't want to loose it", and without fail I loose it. I'll find it a couple of years later, do the same thing, and promptly loose if for another 2-4 years. I have a really nice Canasta deck I got as a Christmas present 16 years ago that keeps popping up from time to time to taunt me.

[Drum]

It's way worse when you are missing a firearm.

I know for a near certainty that there is an M1 .30 Cal. Carbine hidden somewhere in my house. Someday, if/when we move, it will likely turn up. Otherwise it is going to be one of those things where the guys demolishing this house for a spacecraft landing dock pull my carbine from the rubble and think "Wtf?"

It's been "lost" for about ten years or more, since before I had a big vault. Back then, when I was going on vacation or leaving for an extended trip, I would take all my firearms and hide them throughout the house. One time, I wound up with one less carbine, soooo... I don't know what happened.

Nobody stole it, that is for near certain. No WAY someone would enter this house and then leave with one paltry carbine and nothing else.

Hope springs eternal.

I lost a Luger once for almost twenty years before I found it again.

[B]

It is not lost it is misplaced as per usual in your hoard Carter. You should have gone to the track fine weather for fast times today. I'll be hitting the dirt in a few hours for the fun.

[SSniper13]

I come from 3 generations of men who put things in safe places so they won't get lost and then promptly forget where that safe place is for a year or two or ten.

For years my dad talked about how sad he was that my grandfather's first .22 (which had been used to help feed the family during the depression, and was a source of great pride) had been stolen. My grandfather had noticed it being missing sometime in the early eighties, but my dad swore he'd seen it since, and they would sometimes argue about who was right or wrong until my grandpa died in 2000. When my dad died last year, my step-mom asked me to take all the guns (she never liked them) so I did. About a month later, I get a call that I missed one. She had been in a back closet in the spare bedroom, and wrapped in an old quilt was my grandpa's .22. I still can't figure that one out, since both of them always kept their guns in cases and together.

I've never found guns I forgot I had, but I've many times been goign through the gear and found a reg or a barrel or a part I didn't remember buying. I've also put too many things to count in those impossible to find safe places, including currently: the spare keys to both of my vehicles, a refund check for over $500 (got that one cancelled and reissued, but still), the charger stand for my mobile radios, and 4-5 Allen keys in the sizes used to adjust my favorite guns' velocity.

SSniper13

[Listessa]

I've had more times that I discovered paintball guns I forgot I missplaced in strange spots around the house. (Not my strange spots, the house's strange spots!) The VMs were breeding under my futon in my first house too.

For a while I wondered if the rabbit somehow moved them on me. The worst was tripping over a KP2 in the kitchen at night when I was getting a drink of water. I did NOT remember leaving it there, and it hurt!

I just did a quick sweep of the apartment- nope, Carter, no fusions. I don't think this apartment hosts the end of a black hole belching out other people's paintball guns.
Damn.

[weekendballer]

I lose the occasional small parts all the time. But about two months ago i lost a rubber bade bucket "large one" full of revys and other hoppers. I cannot find it anywhere. The worst part is it could be in my house, the girlfriends, or a friends house.

[Hyjinx]

Originally Posted by Drum

I lost a Luger once for almost twenty years before I found it again.

It's for this reason I have no problem with losing things in my home. I can not explain the joy I feel when I find something that I've written off as gone forever!

Plus, we've got a pair of these Recliner/couch hybrids with big assed pillow cushions. Whenever they recline out they swallow anything that isn't firmly duct taped to the reclineee...the average turnaround time for exit is about 2-3 months before it hits the ground.

At last check, there's 3 zippo's, a Blackberry, a Gerber Multitool and somewhere around $75 bucks in loose change in there, and that's just my own gear. I also found a PGP in there once, but I think I crammed it in there myself one night after the girlfriend came home early and I didn't want to get caught buying yet another gun