[Hedley]

I read this post and was reminded of the time I bought a 22 rimfire for my wife to play with. I loaded the clip and she squeezed of a round, except, the gun went full auto. I couldn't believe it so I tried it, pulled the trigger and just a single round went off. I tried squeezing the trigger slowly and carefully as I was aiming at a small target. All of a sudden, full auto. It appeared that if I squeezed the trigger very slowly, it would somehow miss the disconnect and run full auto. Well long story short, I had some fun in the dessert for a while and later brought it to a gunsmith to have it fixed. I was a little afraid of BATF,, no E at the time. I since sold it for something else 15 years ago.

Was it a Stevens 87A by any chance? Mine will go in 3 or 4 round bursts every once in a while.