Savage 110: accidental discharges?

[jl1966]

I would like to here about any non negligent discharges any of you has witnessed with these rifles. I have a 110 tactical in .223, a friend and I were at the range this spring and I was loading the rifle one shell at a time. I placed a shell in the gun and closed the bolt with my right hand, while my left was on the buttstock, when I closed the bolt the rifle fired. If my friend had not been looking right at me and seen it all himself I would have possibly doubted myself and thought I somehow hit the trigger, but he saw it all and agreed that my hand was nowhere near the trigger. I bought this gun used and assumed that someone had tampered with the trigger. It has been in the safe ever since, except for me getting it out, cocking it and bouncing it on the concrete floor of the garage to attempt to make it fire, unloaded of course. I have not been able to cause it to go off. Well the same friend that was at the range that day has a 110 .30-06, and he just called me and said his gun did the same thing yesterday. He put a shell in it, closed the bolt, and it went off. Both guns are in good condition, of reasonably new manufacture, NON ACCU-TRIGGER, factory ammo was being used in both instances. His gun was bought at WAL-MART by him, so he knows it has not been messed with. Luckily in both instances the rifles were pointed in a safe direction, so there were no injuries. We are both thinking of getting rid of these rifles. What do you guys have to say?