>>63922035
>Were the semi autos just too expensive and heavy compared to the surplus rifles?
Yeah, pretty much. The vast majority of hunters in the US until fairly recently were doing it for subsistence reasons and were on a budget, so using a cheap surplus bolt action made much more sense than buying an expensive and often finnicky semi-auto (until the 90s, the most available and cheapest semi auto rifles would be surplus M1 Garands (large and cumbersome, cannot be easily sporterized) and M1 Carbines (considered underpowered for deer, sub-100yd effective range)). Also, people assumed semis were inherently less accurate due to lack of easily accessible information via the internet.

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Why aren't semi autos more popular for hunting? We had the remington model 8 in .35 rem and the winchester 1907 .351 WSL which are both adequate…