what happened to Browning BARs? the semi-auto hunting rifle ?

Gatehouse said:
I think that it could be made much lighter these days- basically dress up a current BAR with a retro stock and look. Add a box magazine and an aluminum bipod and there you go! :) I don't think it would be popular with hunters but there are heck of a lot of range shooters that would love one. Another thing that might sell great is to throw the existing BAR into a tacticool chassis with pistol grip and rails and long magazine. Again, I bet it would sell, but maybe not to hunters as much. :)
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FN FNAR. It sold to me anyways, haha. No Regerts!
 
Suther said:
People dont buy SKS to be a hunting rifle though(not saying it can't be done, but the vast majority of SKS sold dont get used for hunting). Conversely, people dont buy BARs to be cheap plinkers. Hard to compare the two because they appeal to different markets.
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I think his point was that it's not because semi autos are going to be "secretly be banned" as an example saying that they are still selling hundreds of SKS's (semi autos) every month all over the country.

That being said, the BAR is cumbersome and very heavy. It's an old design, seems reliable but designed and made at a time which rendered it very heavy for a bush gun. You can get a lever action at half the weight, half the cost and have almost as fast follow up shots but with much greater accuracy due to the locking (non semi auto) action of the bolt.
 
Ohio Ordnance Works is making a copy of the original BAR. Read an article a ways back in Shotgun News, and just looked up one of their full page adds.

I haven't looked it up, but, I'm 99% certain that it's semi auto only.

As to the price, if you have to ask...
 
Travis Bickle said:
I think his point was that it's not because semi autos are going to be "secretly be banned" as an example saying that they are still selling hundreds of SKS's (semi autos) every month all over the country.

That being said, the BAR is cumbersome and very heavy. It's an old design, seems reliable but designed and made at a time which rendered it very heavy for a bush gun. You can get a lever action at half the weight, half the cost and have almost as fast follow up shots but with much greater accuracy due to the locking (non semi auto) action of the bolt.
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Plus I believe it fires from an open bolt - that sucks!!
 
Lionel said:
Ohio Ordnance Works is making a copy of the original BAR. Read an article a ways back in Shotgun News, and just looked up one of their full page adds.

I haven't looked it up, but, I'm 99% certain that it's semi auto only.

As to the price, if you have to ask...
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They really like the BAR platform!

 
I was lucky to pick up one from a long distance shooter at our range. He got a batch of rifles from an estate sale. He just did not like the browning, paid $350 it was my first purchase after getting my PAL. I think he was just happy to give it to a 20 year old kid with wide eyes. Later I researched the serial number, its a deluxe, 68 or 69. Has some ones name etched on the receiver. First time I took it to the range and fired my first shot. I was unsure if I even came close at 100. The gentleman a few lanes over put his spotter on my target. I hit center of the cross. I'm happy to call it a one off fluke, by no stretch am I a crack shot. But I was grinning the entire way home that day. Just over 40 years old now, and still have it. Its here to stay. I'm a bigger built guy, and don't find it weighty at all.
 
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