Rifle caliber semi-autos

[Bob Riebe]

Back in the day, Harrington & Richardson, Remington and Winchester made semi-auto rifles.
Not counting the the  military based rifles and pistol caliber rifles, who before the turn of the century when black-gun mania hit, if any one did , made rifle caliber semi-auto rifles?

[Graybeard]

Winchester made several in the SL serles, I think Remington had a limited run of them in the .30-.35 Remington chamberings. Those were the oldest I can remember at the moment.

I've owned the Remington 742 and Winchester 100.

[Bob Riebe]

While searching the net, which oddly is not as easy as it used to be about such things, I did come across a site that mention the Standard Semi-auto rifle, .
Hard to believe I forgot Browning.
FN made a version of the Remington  Model 8 call the FN 1900.
Here are two sites, both hard to search through which besides the military based, do have some very early commercial semi-autos.

https://www.forgottenweapons.com/category/rifles/semiauto-rifles/

http://vintagesemiautorifle.proboards.com/

It seems nowadays, the only firms making old school hunting semi-autos. wood stocks, no pistol grips, are Verney-Carron, Benelli and Browning.

[Bob Riebe]

I found another one no longer around, at least in the U.S.; the HK 940 in 30-06.
It was available from the eighties into the early nineties.

Here is one that is available now; the Sauer S 303

[Lloyd Smale]

Harrington richardson ultra automatic 308
ruger ranch (but that might be pushing the non military a bit)

[Bob Riebe]

Now I have absolutely zero need for one, but that H&R is one I came close to getting on-line a few years back.
 

[Bob Riebe]

Here is one whose existence surprized me, back when my brother shot trap on occasion he considered spending big bucks for a Merkel double barrel.
https://www.merkel-die-jagd.de/en/guns/semi-automatic-rifles/

[ironglow]

Didn't Browning make one?  Other than t e MGs of course, I mean a civilian version..

[Bob Riebe]

Bull Creek Arms conversion of a Browning BAR Mark II to .416 Taylor. (Picture courtesy Bull Creek Arms).

[Ranger99]

H&K offered a couple of nice ones
back in the 80's, but they didn't catch
on here. I started to buy one, but never
did since I had 2 good Remington
autos at the time

[Bob Riebe]

H&K offered a couple of nice ones
back in the 80's, but they didn't catch
on here. I started to buy one, but never
did since I had 2 good Remington
autos at the time

HK SLB 2000


HK SL 7

[Bob Riebe]

https://gunsmagazine.com/discover/kronos-semi-automatic-rifle/



The Kronos, designed and built by F.LLI. Pietta, is mechanically similar to the excellent BAR (Browning Automatic Rifle) but with unique features of its own. Alessandro Pietta explained, “It looks like a BAR, but it’s better. My brother Alberto led the Kronos project. He designed it after studying all the other semi-auto rifles on the market, taking his inspiration from what he saw as their better qualities.”

I used to subscribe to several gun magazines, including one European one to stay updated on what was out there; Well the gun rags are a shadow of what they once were, but I may just subscribe to one or two again as I am way behind the curve now.