BUMMER! Good luck on the hunt!

...Flew across room into the carpet.

I looked & looked & looked... On hands & knees. Rub the carpet one way & then the other... Could not find it. Called a few of the local gun shops & found one for sale. Drove across town, picked it up & returned home. When I opened the front door, the sunlight hit the carpet just right & illuminated the original missing spring. Now I had two!

That was back in the mid-80's when Southern California still had gun shops & working gun smiths.

~JM~

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Said spring is .275 OAL with an outside diameter of .047.

I just happened to have it out of the gun while standing outside when it took flight. Odds of finding it are about like the proverbial needle in a hay stack.

I owned that Gold Cup for about two months. After waiting for a new spring from Colt, I promptly gave it a good trading off with a solemn vow to never own another 1911 with that particular sear design. I've kept that vow.

Murphy

But I cannot even recall how many small gun springs have flown across the room on me. Have fortunately found most of them, but have also spent a fair amount of money buying replacements from various supply houses. When tearing apart a firearm now, try to do it with a clean bench top, in a room with clean floors and no shag carpet. Have also learned a few tricks to contain difficult springs so it happens less often now.

these all remind me of Jeff "Tank" Hoover's on line article about losing stuff under his reloading bench. I think he found the origin of a species down there.

Luckily I was up early on a Saturday morning and the cabin was quiet.
I took the trigger group out and when the hand rolled forward and the sring went zinging past my face. I heard it hit the wall, then 3-4 light bounces on the hardwood floor.
You wouldn't think it would be that hard to find a little spring with all that bare floor. It finally was found by flashlight and there it was hiding up against the couch leg.

Disasembling a gun inside a gallon ziplock bag works well.

Tell your wife you lost a Very Expensive Spring.

She WILL find it.

but I do remember spending a large amount of time looking for a small spring that I had allowed to take flight. Found it in my beard.

Recovered the spring but the saddle entered some other dimension. Also, the slide stop spring on a friend's FEG PA-63. Had to learn to bend music wire for that one.

A 1-gallon Zip-Loc is at hand near the bench these days.

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