...what's the strangest place you finally found that @#$%& little spring, pin, or screw that went flying when you took your gun apart?

I was sitting at my desk working on a Walther PPKs when the little ejector spring got away from me and dissapeared. That was back in the days when you could smoke, and there was one of those old stand up ash trays next to my desk. After crawling around on the floor for a while, I decided to look in the ash tray. I emptied that disgusting thing out about three times before I finally found that little sucker...it had gone right down into the bottom of the ashtray!

Let's hear yours.

Top of the blinds in the living room one month after I order a new one. If you want to find a lost part, fastest way is to order a new one, then magically the old part shows up!

I managed to stick the front pivot pin detent from the AR-15 lower I was building into an acoustical tile ceiling once. When they launch they can draw blood, so I'm glad my face was nowhere near the part when it flew out of the lower assembly.

It was a magazine follower from an FN pistol...........I was taking off the floorplate and it got away from me. The floorplate, spring and follower all ricocheted off the wall and each went a different direction. I found the floorplate and the spring right away, but the follower was nowhere to be found. A month later I was doing some cleaning and maintenance on a ladder, and saw it on top of one of the fluorescent light fixtures, a flat surface about the width of the follower. Half an inch to either side and it would have fallen down. It was 15 feet from the wall it careened off of!