rugby1

Thought I would do a follow update. I just shot a winchester (fn) sx ar. I am really tossed now. I love the feel and ect. do not like the pistol grip. Accuracy was great will have to play with it more and wee how it is to take down. The BAR was a pain.

do you know when or what serial number breaks I should be looking for?

There is a little plastic piece that acts a a recoil buffer along the gas tube on the browning and over the years they deteriorate. Mine did and they are difficult to change with out bending the gas tubing. Anyway since it was changed the gun has never run right. Several gun smiths have made changes and none have worked so I want a wood 30-06 with a 20in barrel and thank you much for your comments. That is encouraging that there is some happy people I was disappointed when I read the forum because I like the gun. So I think I am going to start lurking on gunbroker and track one down.

I am not worried about the cleaning, our mutual friend, uncle sam, pounded that into me. I was more worried after reading the forums that people seemed unhappy with the accuracy of the gun. Are the newer ones better than the older ones? Steve seems to do very well with his and I have read many of Tuckers posts and understand his opinion. I think I am going to give it a side by side with a newer BAR and see which one feels right to me. I really like the fact the the benelli can be disassembled more than the bar.

So, I am a life long lover of the BAR however I have had a few problems with the B#$% the last couple years and decided to get something new. These are the reasons: 1. It broke 2. It broke again 3. It broke again and none of the three gunsmiths seem to be able to iron out the problem. 4. It weighs the same as a bucket of bricks. This being the case and me being a little (lot) angry with browning I can across the benelli R1 and almost kissed it. It points well and jumps to the sholder. It is gas operated and comes in a 20in barrel that I also love. I hunt mostly deer in the midwest with a semi-auto and 20in moves easily around the woods and the blind. I clean the crap out of my guns and like the fact that I have to dissasemble it and get to know it. So the cleaning is not an issue and I fly to hunt so I have to re-zero anyway so that is not an issue. The issue I am having is after reading this forum I am seriously considering not getting one. I do not like the winchester sxr and the browning short long trac's have a trapdoor magazine which I hate. I think the remington semiauto seems a little cheaply made to me. So what do you guys who own them think?? Are they worth it or should I get something else? Most of you do not seem very happy with them. I know there are drawbacks with any semi-auto but from what I am reading this gun seems to have some real problems, but that could just be the nature of the posts.