What's your favorite semi-auto, for hunting?

[Bowhunter57]

I've hunted varmints, squirrels, fox and coyotes with a semi-auto handgun, of various calibers. It's very challenging!

* Squirrel: .22LR and .22 mag.
* Groundhog: .22LR and .22 mag., 9mm and 45acp
* Coyote and Fox: 9mm

My favorite would have to be my Smith & Wesson M&P, in 9mm. It's amazingly accurate with 147gr. JHP ammo it produces 1 hole groups at 20 yards.

What's your favorite semi-auto, for hunting?
Good hunting, Bowhunter57

 

[caribou]

My Chinese Type-85 semi .223 AK, a great gun for "Fur" and about the only semi auto I use for hunting. Its with me for Wolves and the like from Feb to April.

 

[MCgunner]

My Winchester M1400 12 gauge. Ducks and doves, the only auto shotgun I own and the only one I really want.....for now. For small game, Ruger Mk 2 with 2x LER scope. Only auto rifles I own are SKSs and a Hakim. They're not fav hunting rifles, though I've killed a doe with the SKS rifle. My auto pistols, .380, 9x18, 9x19 and .45, are for self defense, inappropriate calibers for hunting. I have a TC Contender and a couple of magnum revolvers for that. That newish to me Radom P64 in 9x18 is amazingly accurate, though, and I've given thought that it'd make a good hiking companion. It ain't powerful, but hell, nothing around here except gators and sharks are man eaters. Have lots of hogs, but I ain't skirt of hogs. I think that little P64 would do well as a camp meat gitter where there's plenty of bunnies.

 

[SothernHunter]

SKS for Hares and Possum's, or the .22lr Ruger 10/22 for Spotlighting.
Would love to get my hands on a 308 Browning Bar though.

 

[MCgunner]

Bud of mine has a BAR in .300 win mag. It's a big, heavy beast. I like his BLR in .308 better. He's a Browning fanatic, but then, he can afford to be....LOL

 

[T.R.]

Stevens model 62 in 22LR.

TR

 

[Rembrandt]

 

[TexasPatriot.308]

Springfield Armory M1A Scout Squad, open sights.

 

[whetrock]

Currently it's my Marlin Model 60 I haven't got to hit the woods yet with it however I have been plinking almost nonstop with it and feel it is going to be my new favorite all around small game/varmit rifle.

 

[303tom]

Don`t hunt with any Semi-Auto , Dad always told me , if you take more than one shot , your wasting ammo !

 

[MtnCreek]

BAR in 30-06. Accuracy is as good as most hunting bolt guns. Rifle has always functioned w/o issue.

 

[wombat13]

50's vintage M1 garand. I took a nice buck with it this past year.

 

[MCgunner]

Don`t hunt with any Semi-Auto , Dad always told me , if you take more than one shot , your wasting ammo !

Sage advice. I don't kill any more ducks with an auto than I do with a pump and I seem to always use more rounds. I hunt geese with a single shot. 10 gauge is too espensive to spray and pray and I reload the stuff, don't want an auto chunkin' it out of the gun so I can't find it.

 

[BK]

Beretta Urika 2

 

[Oathkeeper1775]

Autos

Blacktail deer in the reprod or timber hellholes: Ruger mini 30.

Ducks: Hatsan Escort 12 GA.

 

[303tom]

Sage advice. I don't kill any more ducks with an auto than I do with a pump and I seem to always use more rounds. I hunt geese with a single shot. 10 gauge is too espensive to spray and pray and I reload the stuff, don't want an auto chunkin' it out of the gun so I can't find it.

I hunt birds with my wing master !

 

[fragout]

M14S/ ARMS 18 mount (Deer, hogs, and coyote)
10-22 (rabbit and tree rats)

Have used either with and without optics.

Hogs usually travel in groups where I hunt them, and I try to shoot as many as possible before they have a chance to run off.

Semi automatics work better in this application (for me at least)

IE....... If I take more than one shot, it generally means that I have more than one target out there

Stuff happens. I have made good hits on some (multiple hits) ....... and they still run off out of sight, but generally don't get very far.

If one of my M14 types like it...... I plan to try a load using the Barnes Triple shock bullet.... just to see what all the hoopla is about it.

11B

 

[MCgunner]

Lately, I'm into hunting hogs with a muzzleloader. It's more fun. It's very accruate and basically, the way I'm loading it, similar to shooting a .50-90 Sharps without the case.

One hog is all I wanna skin and butcher at one time, anyway.

 

[Erik M]

Marlin Model 60 22lr for squirrel and cottontails.

 

[The-Reaver]

Ruger 10/22 for squirrel and Execution shots on Hog

 

[jmorris]

For dove/quail the 1100 is the one I have grown to love.

The suppressed 458 socom for hogs.

10-22 for small critters.

A .223 AR for dog sized, or little ones at great distance.

My BAR in 300 win mag for large animals.

For old cars, tannerite and the like, nothing puts a smile on the face like my belt fed 1919

 

[Nathanael_Greene]

Remington 1100 LT 20 for dove, but it's been about a decade since I've hunted them.

Remington 742 in .30-06 for big game. (Note that it's not my favorite hunting rifle, just my favorite hunting semi-auto rifle.)