So last week I went to work on a Island close to Toba Inlet. As usual, I brought my Glock 21 with me. When you have an ATC, you don't think twice about bring it into the woods.
So I have to do some site plans on a bunch of little tiny blocks along 6K of unbuilt mainline. This island is just shear rock, rock everywheres and, to top it off, it is covered head to toe in 4' sword fern. So it takes forever to walk since you can't see where your feet are going and its all uneven under your feet.
I decide that I can do three days worth of work in two days. At the end of the first day, about a half hour from the boat picking us up, I notice that, ohhh F**K my gun is gone from my holster. I freak and start swearing, like I have never sworn before. Of course, I'm with a biologist and contract engineer. Its a 15 minute walk to where we need to meet the boat. So I have 15 minutes to search a very large area.
Yep, you guessed it. I didn't find it. So I have the worst sleep ever, between the gun, the guy beside me snoring, I don't get much shut eye. First thought was how the frack am I going to afford a new gun and great, I have to deal with the paper pushers at the CFC.
Day Two, it is my mission to find my gun, since I was having dreams about it all night long, when I did sleep. So I have narrowed it down in my mind to where I could be. Me thinks that I did not put it in the holster properly, I took it out half way through the day (like a true gunnut)to practice dry firing while my partner was coming down the hill. I got on the boat and went to a different drop off point.
Now I have to cover a days worth of area and then go back to where I was the day before and search a very large area. So I finish early, and try and retrace my steps. I walk the same area THREE TIMES. I now have to go home, so I decide to give up. But on my way out I decide to check the mainline as I leave instead of taking the shortest route out. I get to a rock where we had stopped the day before. As I walk I noticed a silver shinning thing. I soon realize that I am staring at the serial number tag on the underside of my FRICKEN GLOCK. I almost don't believe my eyes.
Ya I was stoked after that.
Moral of the story, If you have retention lanyard.......Fricken use it!!!!!!!!
So I have to do some site plans on a bunch of little tiny blocks along 6K of unbuilt mainline. This island is just shear rock, rock everywheres and, to top it off, it is covered head to toe in 4' sword fern. So it takes forever to walk since you can't see where your feet are going and its all uneven under your feet.
I decide that I can do three days worth of work in two days. At the end of the first day, about a half hour from the boat picking us up, I notice that, ohhh F**K my gun is gone from my holster. I freak and start swearing, like I have never sworn before. Of course, I'm with a biologist and contract engineer. Its a 15 minute walk to where we need to meet the boat. So I have 15 minutes to search a very large area.
Yep, you guessed it. I didn't find it. So I have the worst sleep ever, between the gun, the guy beside me snoring, I don't get much shut eye. First thought was how the frack am I going to afford a new gun and great, I have to deal with the paper pushers at the CFC.
Day Two, it is my mission to find my gun, since I was having dreams about it all night long, when I did sleep. So I have narrowed it down in my mind to where I could be. Me thinks that I did not put it in the holster properly, I took it out half way through the day (like a true gunnut)to practice dry firing while my partner was coming down the hill. I got on the boat and went to a different drop off point.
Now I have to cover a days worth of area and then go back to where I was the day before and search a very large area. So I finish early, and try and retrace my steps. I walk the same area THREE TIMES. I now have to go home, so I decide to give up. But on my way out I decide to check the mainline as I leave instead of taking the shortest route out. I get to a rock where we had stopped the day before. As I walk I noticed a silver shinning thing. I soon realize that I am staring at the serial number tag on the underside of my FRICKEN GLOCK. I almost don't believe my eyes.
Ya I was stoked after that.
Moral of the story, If you have retention lanyard.......Fricken use it!!!!!!!!
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