[thatsnotnice]

I once bought a used Savage 22 semi auto and the first time I tried to fire it, the weapon fired eight rounds full auto and then jammed.

Ha. Yes. A cousin had a Ruger 10/22 that he’d converted like that. He’d filed down something.

Once you pulled the trigger, it’d fire until it ran out of ammo, jammed, or until you grabbed the bolt.

I fired it one time (I was fully aware of how it would “hang”) and as I rotated it to try and grab the bolt, a cartridge was ejected down the neck of my shirt somehow. It was hot and got lodged between me and the waistband of my pants. I thought I’d somehow managed to shoot myself (ricochet or something) in the bladder area.

Years later it’s sort of funny, but at the time it scared the crap out of me.

Like the Old Man said – it’s a good way to mess up a perfectly good little rifle.

[mbynack]

It's been thirty years since I owned that rifle. I had forgotten that the only way it would stop firing was if it jammed our ran out of ammo.