Browning BAR (.243 Win)
Kim du Toit
August 31, 2006
7:00 AM CDT
A great number of people (and I am most definitely one of them) like shooting semi-auto rifles which are not eeeevil-looking military types. Here’s a rifle I’d take into the field any day of the week: the Browning BAR chambered for the light-kicking .243 Win cartridge. This one was made in Belgium in 1959, and has an all-steel receiver.
Yup… quick follow-up shots, in a rifle designed by John Moses Browning, in a blue-steel/wood package: doesn’t get much better than that, really.
The only caveat, of course, is that in extreme weather conditions, a semi-auto rifle may not be the best choice—although I have to say, if you knew you were going to be hunting in very cold weather, just stripping out the oil and replacing it with a graphite lubricant would probably make you good to go.
At about $800-$900, the BAR is a little spendy compared to, say, the Remington 7400, but then again, if you like Browning guns (and I most certainly do), that’s not really much of an issue.
I want one.
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