Totin'a10, for hunting, like Redhawk1 said, the Browining is very good. The Remington will do for the average once a year hunter though. If you are not hunting, then the M1-A is gonna be hard to beat.
As far as beemanbeme's comment, well, I disagree. The auto is a first rate woods or brush gun for deer. I do alot of deer hunting with a semi-auto shotgun. In the woods, you are bound to slam a sapling or a branch once in a while. Many times, a missed deer will freeze, looking for where the shot came from, giving you an easy second shot with the auto. But working the action on a bolt, lever, or pump, will give your location away. Now your second shot will be a running shot, or no shot at all. So the auto can actually be better and safer in a mature hunters hands. If you don't need the acuraccy of a bolt, the auto makes alot of sense.(where legal). Sorry for the rant, auto's have been around for about 100 years now, and still are not accepted as a legitimate hunting weapon by some. But an antiquated, inaccurate lever gun that wounds as many deer as it kills in the hands of the inexperienced "hunters" using it is O.K.
