I know this post is a few weeks old, but I just saw it.

I do not own one of these, but a good hunting buddy bought one 2 years ago and has had nothing but problems. He bought one in .243 and right out of the box, after each shot when loading the new shell into the chamber, the bolt wouldn't close all the way and he'd have to push it forward. He took it back to the gunshop he bought it from and their only suggestion was to call Remington. He called them, and they told him it would be at minimum 3 months turn around time. So essentially the rifle he'd just bought to hunt with, would have to be getting repaired the entire hunting season and possibly longer.

So he decided to work on it himself. It was determined that it had a rough chamber with a burr in it. After they got that fixed, he went to sight it in. His problems really started now. It was shooting all over the place with any ammo he tried. It just shot horribly, and I know it wasn't him as he is one of the best shots of our group of hunters. He finally got it to where he could kill deer with it, but it still shot all over the place, and imo it's not accurate enough for him to actually take hunting. He missed at least 1 deer I know of shooting at it, and this is a guy that I've never heard of missing. Why he took it hunting like that I have no idea.

This combined with the experiences I've had with newer Remingtons, just has completely turned me off from them.

Another friend has a .243 Remington 7400 which is what inspired him to get this one. It's worked great for many many years. It's not the most accurate, but it's reliable and has worked well with lots of abuse. This past year it did start acting up and shells sticking the chamber and the extractor slipping off, but I bet it's because the chamber is either gunked up, or rusty. It's been a decent gun.

IMO however, if you are going to go with a semi auto the BAR or the Benelli R1 are the only two to even consider, and from personal experience I wouldn't expect the BAR to be all that accurate, but it should be good enough for deer with ammo it likes.