Ep. 418 | Semi-Auto Deer Rifles, Princes of Pie-Plate Precision?

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🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Semi-auto deer rifles are the Kings of fast follow-up shots, the Dukes of deer drives, and Princes of pie-plate precision (kidding on that last part). A cultural norm in some regions and nearly absent in others, semi-autos often prove much more accurate than many folks give them credit for. Tune in to this podcast where Mark Boardman and Ryan Muckenhirn talk all about the iconic semi-auto deer rifle and its place amongst the hunting ranks.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast, brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment, and good food.
0:17.8	What is up, everybody? Mark on the mic, across from me, my good friend, Mr. Ryan Muckin-Hern.
0:23.3	Ryan, we, we podcast and we sit here and we chat at such a frequent cadence. It's nearly
0:32.3	automatic. Jesus. Which is what we're going to talk about today. We're talking about
0:36.8	auto-loading deer rifles.
0:39.1	We have one on the table today.
0:41.1	Ryan, this one is near and dear to my heart.
0:43.3	This was really the first rifle that I purchased with my own monies.
0:48.3	And we'll get into the story behind this rifle a little bit later.
0:50.9	But, man, this is a Browning BAR Mark two in the venerable 30-od six uh shot a handful of
0:59.7	deer with it and i think auto loading deer rifles are super cool we were chatting about uh i don't
1:07.7	i don't know how these are going to air back to back,
1:11.5	and maybe I'm giving a sneak peek.
1:12.8	I don't know, but we're talking about bolt-action shotguns just yesterday.
1:16.9	Just yesterday.
1:18.0	One of which was a browning of your own,
1:21.8	but one thing that we talked about,
1:24.4	kind of a dying breed, right?
1:27.2	Yeah, yeah. Where, I'd say, auto breed, right? Yeah, yeah.
1:28.5	Where, I'd say auto-loading deer rifles,
1:32.1	I'm not going to say, like, they're the most popular,
1:35.3	but a person still has a few options out there.
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