Entry level makes it tougher. Most military rifles are built to a much more rugged standard of use and command higher prices.
I started hunting with a HK91 in the late seventies, one detachable mag, and didn't know I had the best of the deal. Years later, I moved to bolts and levers, which demonstrated the hassle of unloading fixed guns by cycling all the rounds thru the chamber. It nicks, scratches, and even sets back the uncrimped rounds with all the constant loading and unloading. Keep in mind that LEO/MIL is very aware of the increased probability of ND's and Kabooms from abusing ammo with constant cycling. It's NO different for civilian guns, they are just as prone to it. Reading the Rem 700 reports of ND's blamed on the trigger, cycling ammo is a large part of when it happened.
Mag fed, drop the mag, cycle one round, done. Safer, much easier. If a conservation agent stops by, there's less drama trying to examine things. They carry and train on mag fed weapons, and know less monkey motion means less risk.
It's really a question of why use a fixed magwell rifle for hunting at all? Most semi autos are more than accurate enough for medium game, are quicker getting a second shot, more accurately, and as said, safer to operate in the field. That's why I hunted for almost twenty years with a HK, and why I built an AR to hunt. My time spent using a bolt or lever wasn't wasted, but it was largely unproductive because the rifle wasn't helping me - I had to conform to it's idiosyncracies, mostly based on obsolescent designs from over 100 years ago.
I don't set the advance and handcrank my car in the morning, either.
