The back story first. In April of 2011 I purchased 2 brand new V3i's. One for myself and the other for my buddy who I convinced to jump into the hobby with me. Well I tried mine until early summer last year then got discouraged, sold it, and bought a different machine that I really have done very well with. My buddy went out on 2 hunts with me early on then lost all interest. I asked him awhile back if he wanted to go hunting but he said he lost the charger. How he did that I have no idea. Anyways, last week when I was at a local MD shop I picked up a charger...$75. I still have some of the extra's from my V3i, one which was a brand new rechargeable battery. Well yesterday I was talking with my buddy and jokingly said...since you are not using that V3i why don't you just let me use it. I told him that I would like to revisit the machine, really learn it, and then some day when he wanted it back I would be able to show him how to properly use it. He laughed and said come pick it up, that he doubts he will ever use it anyways. You would have to know this guy, he probably will never ask for it back. So I got indefinite free use of a V3i.