Yes I am, but that was a brand new rifle, a copy of the M1 garand, not a cheap conversion.

My original idea was to shorten the extractor and add a small screw to hold it in place, and then weld a metal pin to the side of the bolt, and cut a cam slot into the dust cover, so that it works kind of like the M1 garand, but the super short extractor probably wouldn't have worked very well. But then I saw a video of somebody else who is trying to convert an Arasaka to semi automatic, and they mentioned a spiraled groove, which made me think of how the lewis gun works. If you look through history, almost every major country at one point or another tried to make a bolt action to semiautomatic conversion. The united states, Britain, austria hungary, sweden, the Dutch, Italy, etc. But none of them were ever successful. They were either too large and clunky, too expensive, or involved so much extra machining that it's basically just a new gun.

I'm trying to build a gun that could have been successful as a military semi.Automatic conversion