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The Sporting Semiauto
Self-loading rifles rule the military world. So why aren’t they dominant in the hunting fields as well?
Effective autoloading rifles came on the scene about the same time as autoloading shotguns. If you read some of the old stuff, even 75 years ago it wasn’t uncommon to read a prediction that the semiautomatic would become the dominant sporting rifle action. This would have seemed especially likely after World War II and Korea, when returning veterans waxed eloquent in praise of the Garand. Look around, and it doesn’t take much subjective study to not that this has never ...
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