[Ron Smith]

GT, I feel your pain...

When I was working in gunshops, our gunsmith was dissassembling a customer's very expensive and rare double rifle in order to make a new firing pin . One of the extractors popped out and launched itself.

We spent the better part of a day tearing the shop apart trying to find it. A week later, after the gunsmith had fabricated a new extractor, by copying the other. He found the original in his shop apron pocket.

I may have a fortune in small parts and springs in my shop that are invisible, or in a parallel dimension. Everytime I lose one, I seem to find one that I lost 10 years ago, but never the one I'm looking for.

I nearly lost an eye a few years ago, due to a Remington 870 shotgun mag spring. The friction retainer was bent and came loose under full tension directly into my right eye. I couldn't see out of it for a couple of days.