Teapot -- sadly your right. In Canada, it seems as soon as a business has a non restricted semi to market - they inflate the selling price to take advantage of that fact.
I'm biased to the Mk11/M110 series of gun for a 7.62x51 platform - However I dont hunt, and even in the US I can't really think of any place I would go shooting off a range (not a lot of places in Fl to shoot beyond 100m anyway).
I really don't understand the Cdn Firearms Laws in respect to the restricting of some mil style semi-auto's and leaving others untouched, and yes I understand the whole Order In Council system, it just does not make sense to me that it stand the reasonable person test.