Steps to find a good server.
Step 1 Set filter to 100 ping (150 in aus ;D)
Step 2 Sort servers by player count
Step 3 Look for a server that says white listed
Step 4 Google them and get white listed
Step 5 Join server
Step 6 ???
Step 7 Profit

after another mishap I remembered something about my DC's so I decided to test it out today. I've been able to reproduce this bug when painting the folding buttstock and ak hanguard rail green on an akm twice. I will attempt to find more akm's and paint only one piece green.

I have encountered this bug 4 times in as many days.
3 times on public hive and once on a private
Every time I have had 2 guns
2/4 have been a log out and back in (less than 2 mins) on the same server and the other 2 were hopping to another server.
Once I lost my gear with a friend who logged with me while another friend we were with was 2 mins behind us and was fine
At no point has this happened when we have had less then full military loadouts
The locations are Myshikino in the forest (where both of us lost our gear at the same time), Novaya Petrovka in the police station (private hive loss), Vybor by the water fountain, Komarovo in the yellow shed near the coast (next to the offroad spawn)