OK, I've shot a Browning Semi, with the alloy frame, in .308 Winchester. I loved the way it carried and shot.
But what did I hate about it? In your review, you say that they are really easy to reload. Oh really? Compared to what?
To reload it, you have to hold the rifle in one hand, reach underneath it with the other, find and depress a magazine floorplate latch, let the plate swing all of the way down and back like a trap door, then rearrange your hands so that one hand is holding onto the back of the floorplate, while the other hand yanks off the little magazine box. You then have to reload the box (which I think only holds 3 rounds?), and snap that box back onto the swinging floorplate (which isn't so easy to do), and then swing the floorplate and magine back up into the rifle, and push it all in until it snaps. Very clumbsy, very slow, and you almost have to kneel down in the dirt to do it.
As an alternative, you can swing the floorplate down, leave the magazine attached to it, and use two hands to load additional rounds into the magazine box, which is being suspended downward at 90 degrees with the floor plate, and then shove the whole thing back up into the rifle. Also very clumbsy and slow, especially if it is really cold outside.
Compare this to reloading other standard semi-auto rifles, which consists merely of pressing a mag release button, dropping the empty mag into your hand, reinserting a charged mag, and pushing upward until it snaps. This takes about 5 seconds.
Compare this to reloading a bolt action rifle with a blind magazine, where you simply shove the cartridges down into it, one by one. Most folks can reload 4 rounds in about 10 seconds.
This reloading factor is the sole reason that I have never gotten one of the newer Browning Semi-autos. It is a HUGE negative.
Mannyrock