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I am looking for a single shot .22 semi auto. What I want is to load one in the chamber and lock the slide so it doesn't re-chamber a round (make sense?). I want the option of locking and unlocking the slide. Are there any out there that people are aware of? Thanks.

no it don't . never heard of what you want to do . all of then shoot one round auto loads another unless only put one round in the gun

What I want to do is keep the slide from cycling after the round fires. Hmmmm. I had heard the H&K had this on a .45, but I'm not familiar with it, if it's even true they have that as an option.

My father had an old tube-fed Springfield 187 rifle that did like you say. You could pull the bolt back and shove the charging handle in to lock it back when you were clearing a jam or cleaning the breech or doing whatever else you wanted; but when the bolt was forward you could also shove it in to lock it there, so that the action wouldn't cycle when the gun fired. Then you'd pull out the charging handle and cycle it to load the next round, then push it back in.

He swore by the manual reload; said it produced more muzzle velocity out of his 24" barrel because no energy was siphoned off to cycle the action. (Also, it was old and loose enough that if you fired it semiauto it would frequently either A) jam, requiring clearing with a knife or screwdriver, or B) go full-auto for a few rounds and then jam hard, requiring a complete disassembly and reassembly.)

Years later I bought a Springfield 187 as well, but although it had the same propensity for jamming and accidental fully-automatic fire, there was no provision for operation as a bolt-action repeater the way there was on my dad's.

If you have a 22LR blowback semiauto of any kind with a hold-open recess, you can probably get a gunsmith to mill you a similar hold-closed recess for not too much money. (Mickey?)

I was actually thinking a pin hole drilled through the slide, into the frame, where I could drop a pin or something would work, but I figured there'd be something out there somewhere already made that way. Maybe I'm the only one that would want one.

I don't know though if the pressure is likely to damage a pin or the frame/slide?

I think your father is right though, that it'd produce additional velocity.

Are you talking hand gun or rifle?

Hand gun, otherwise I'd just buy a bolt-gun (rifle). I was a single shot semi-auto where the action doesn't cycle unless you want it to. I want a single shot "option".

Not a locking slide, but there are some gas operated pistols. You might add a gas cut-off valve.

Bruce

I only ask becouse it was not clear to me in the ? some people prefer semi-auto rifles!

You're right. I wasn't that clear.

What I want is a semi-auto pistol. I will be attaching a suppressor. I do not want to hear the action cycle, and I want to lock it closed. Seems like a lot of people with suppressors would want the same thing and some pistol manufacturers would build this in if they expected the firearm to function quietest. Am I just thinking of something no one else has, or no one else has cared about because it's a non-issue?

Gas operated 22LRs? I'd love to play with one.

High Standard used to make a pistol with a locking slide as you are asking after. I do not know if they still do. Oh and for the same reason you stated. Bear

And for silencer work for the CIA, saw a couple in SEA many moons ago.

So would I! But I just forgot he was wanting a 22LR, not a centerfire.

Bruce

Sure as Barak stated the old 22lr semis from Springfield and Savage also. I have a savage 7a s/l/lr that does that. There is another, maybe a Whinchester don't recall, that is a single shot only but auto eject.

check silencertalk.com


Mike

I had a JC Higgins like that. I think it was later sold as the Sears Md 25. It would cycle s,l and LR. It would also lock closed.

Thanks, I posted at silencertalk too.

Firmly place one Mark I thumb on the rear of the slide of a Ruger Mark II (III) pistol. Pull trigger. Slide does not move.

Sure it sounds ghetto, but it works quite well.

Scott (the unbeliever until I saw it done)

You're saying you can hold the slide with your thumb?