It's gone!

[Tom W.]

I looked all over the house, my shed, range bags duffle bags, the back of my car, storage boxes, and everywhere else I could think of, and
can't find them.

I wanted to change the back strap of my Gen 4 model 19 to the smaller beavertail, hoping it might help with my "low and left" problem. After I see where the first round goes I can compensate, but I like to aim instead of Kentucky windage...... Maybe the LGS where I bought it has one laying around.....

[Grmps]

I assume your talking about the back strap and not your memory :)
I can't find a box with apr 50# of coated round balls in it.
I know that as soon as I make more the box will turn up.

You just misplaced a small item. Don't feel bad.

[DerekP Houston]

On the bright side you get to make a trip to the LGS ;)

[fatelk]

Don't feel bad, it will turn up sometime shortly after you buy another, probably in a place you already looked.

I lost a rifle barrel a couple years ago. I bought a used heavy stainless AR barrel relatively inexpensive at a show but when I finally got around to wanting to use it, I couldn't find it anywhere. It has to be in my house somewhere and I've tore the place apart from end to end. I just have to assume that a tiny wormhole opened us at some point and sucked it into an alternate universe or something.

[kens]

my chronograph is in the same place !!!

[osteodoc08]

I'm still looking for the 200 rounds of 41 mag ammo I made using 296 and XTPs.

[lightman]

I hate it when my stuff hides from me! :(

[Grmps]

That's why they invented clappers for car keys.

[rking22]

When we went out of town last, I put my Barecat somewhere safe.... Basically hid it from myself! Getting where i can wrap my own presents.

[claude]

Getting where i can wrap my own presents.

^^^^^^^I love it!!^^^^^^

[square butte]

I have a good friend who ( with his Father ) owned a matching pair of early Colt 25 auto Vest Pockets. His father passed away from Alzhiemers about 10 years back - And he was unable to find his fathers Vest Pocket. He turned the house upside down for 3 or 4 years and just could not find it. One day he was going through a closet and pulled out his father's bed robe - He found the gun in the pocket of said robe. Years later I asked him if he would sell me one of the pair. It took him another three years to find it. I know exactly where it is - I think . . .

[Smoke4320]

EVERY time I go to the Dodge dealership and tell them I want to buy a NEW dodge 3500 diesel quad cab for $30,000.00 they say I have lost my mind .. Don't know I will ever find it

[DerekP Houston]

Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.

[bob208]

I never lose anything I always put it in a place where it will be safe. now some things are safe for a month or two some longer. some are still in that safe place but not lost.

[bedbugbilly]

What's worse is when you FIND something and you can't remember ever buying it or where it came from . .. .

[Love Life]

What's worse is when you FIND something and you can't remember ever buying it or where it came from . .. .

I'm doing that now as I pack stuff up for storage.


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[FISH4BUGS]

My significant other moves everything I own.....:)

[Geezer in NH]

What's worse is when you FIND something and you can't remember ever buying it or where it came from . .. . NAH!!!! Call that Christmas comes early and enjoy the find!!!!:bigsmyl2:

[Geezer in NH]

My significant other moves everything I own.....:)

I got one just like it, her OCD works good for the other things as I am a very messy person and never have to clean.!

[Three44s]

Don't feel bad, it will turn up sometime shortly after you buy another, probably in a place you already looked.

I lost a rifle barrel a couple years ago. I bought a used heavy stainless AR barrel relatively inexpensive at a show but when I finally got around to wanting to use it, I couldn't find it anywhere. It has to be in my house somewhere and I've tore the place apart from end to end. I just have to assume that a tiny wormhole opened us at some point and sucked it into an alternate universe or something.

Well, if you get pulled through that worm hole maybe Claudia Black (AKA Ayren Sun) will be on the other end, that would be a treat

Three44s

[Tom W.]

Well, I went to the shed to load up some 9mm rounds, and dropped an empty primer box into the trash can. I looked and wondered what my Blackhawk holster container was doing in the can. I dug it out and guess what was in the container...... I must have thrown it away when I was still under the influence of those hospital drugs....I finished flaring and priming my brass and then came in and changed to the medium beaver tail....now to go to the range and see.

The reason I wanted to try the smaller size is about two years ago I bought a used Gen 4 model 17. It didn't come with anything but on magazine. It also shot like a laser. And I got to thinking that all of the 1911s I had did too, and they have thinner grips. Yup, the dim bulb glowed a bit brighter.... and as I'm medically retired, I have plenty of time if I feel up to it to head to the range.....

[BOSCHLOPER]

I dropped a box of .45's in the reloading room a while back. Only could find 49. The last one must be in the black hole with the back strap, round balls, chronograph......

[lightman]

I've found that as I get older that I try to develop habits that help. For instance, I only undress in one of two places, depending if I'm clean or really dirty and muddy. I empty my pockets in only those two places and then I take the contents of my pockets to the regular place. I have a buddy that continues to loose pocket knives and truck keys, the expensive ones with remote starter and such, because he has no pattern. I put my tools back where they belong when I finish using them. I just try to be conscious of things like this.

[castalott]

How do you lose a 2 foot pry bar? Never did find it....bought a new set of them...

[Hannibal]

Last weekend, I was working on the tractor in the shed and needed a tool from the garage. Walked 100 yds to the garage, and danged if I hadn't forgot what I needed. Wandered around a bit lookin' at stuff thinkin' maybe I'd remember . . .

Nope.

Back to the shed, took 1 look at what I was doin', . . . Ah, Yes! Back to the garage where . . . ... . . ?

I'd forgotten AGAIN.

SO. I pulled out a chair, got myself out a cold beer, and let that tractor sit.

Figured if I had that much stuff on my mind, that was the stuff I should be workin' on.

[Tom W.]

I have a dish in the dining room where I keep my keys. In the drawer under the keys is my flashlight, batteries for the flashlight and my hearing aids, my Ruger and spare mags. I'm rather ocd about my tools and reloading gear, when I'm finished the tool goes in it's designated spot. I don't know what possessed me to throw stuff in the trash. I still think it was some kind of hospital drugs..,

[Rooster]

I swear door thresholds are mind erasers.

[D Crockett]

I swear door thresholds are mind erasers. Rooster I do think you have figured it out D Crockett

[MT Gianni]

I put 50 rounds of fire formed 7-30 Waters brass out on my garage shelf then moved it to where I wouldn't forget it. Haven't found it in three weeks.

[GL49]

My significant other moves everything I own.....:)

Isn't that the truth. Really. I can always figure where I last used, would have placed, or last saw something I now need. Until my wife puts it..... "where it belongs". Then it's an Easter egg hunt.


Informational note:
Telling her, "It belongs where I put it", isn't the smartest thing to say. You immediately become more intelligent. :smile:

[RKJ]

I've got 2 holsters that I can't find anywhere. If one of you find them would you let me know?

[Handloader109]

Ive never been one to have set place for much, but over past few years, ocd has set in. At least most of the time I can put my hands on it! Whatever it might be. Unless I got rid of it when I moved. Then I look for it for hours until I remember it's gone.

[Biggin]

I've often wondered why I feel like I got in with bunch. Now I know.

[Hickory]

Last weekend, I was working on the tractor in the shed and needed a tool from the garage. Walked 100 yds to the garage, and danged if I hadn't forgot what I needed. Wandered around a bit lookin' at stuff thinkin' maybe I'd remember . . .

Nope.

Back to the shed, took 1 look at what I was doin', . . . Ah, Yes! Back to the garage where . . . ... . . ?

I'd forgotten AGAIN.

SO. I pulled out a chair, got myself out a cold beer, and let that tractor sit.

Figured if I had that much stuff on my mind, that was the stuff I should be workin' on.

You know what's worse then this, to walk to the garage pick up the tool and go to the house with it and wonder why you needed the tool.

[Blogman]

Well, if you get pulled through that worm hole maybe Claudia Black (AKA Ayren Sun) will be on the other end, that would be a treat

Three44s

Hear, Hear!
Ditto!
And, Oh yeah!

[mold maker]

I now get to spend lots more time looking than doing. It's easier to ask somebody for help, cause they know where/can find my tools.
Yesterday I remembered where my claw hammer was when I found the mayonnaise on the workbench, but then couldn't remember why I was looking for it.

[alamogunr]

I know some of these posts are tongue-in-cheek and some are serious but both types are based on reality. My reality occurred a little over a year ago. After returning from a range session testing some loads, I couldn't find 2 extra cylinders for my Freedom Arms. I looked for about 2 months. Finally, decided to contact Freedom Arms about replacing them. They took the order and started work. Just before they were to notify me that they were ready to ship, I found the "lost" cylinders. Now I had 2 cylinders for .45ACP and .454 Casull(.45 Colt was in the gun). I worked out a deal with a custom smith to have the .45ACP cylinder rechambered to .45 Win Mag in exchange for the .454 cylinder.

That little episode of memory loss cost me right at $1K counting cost of new cylinders, shipping back & forth(gun had to go to FA for timing the new cylinders) even after getting a little boot for the .454 cylinder.

I have tried to be a little more organized since then but still lose things for a short time and still get a lot of exercise going back where I started from because I forgot what I went after.

[bob208]

yes it is the electric field of automatic doors that mess with the brain waves. then we get so used to it that when ever we go through any door we forget.

[Hannibal]

Most of my garage cleaning gets done because I lay something down somewhere and can't find it.

I've found the quickest way to find it is start cleaning up. So it's a '2-birds with 1 stone' kinda thing.

[Wayne Smith]

I swear door thresholds are mind erasers.

Nope. Research is beginning to show that it is the shape of the door frame. Something about walking through a narrow rectangle does it.

[JimB..]

How about when tools magically rematerialize? I have replaced tools that were lost for months, generally a combination wrench or socket, and then some time later find that I have two of them. Never “find” the one that was “lost” it’s just back.

Asking the wife or kids is not productive.