Picked up a model 700 that is semi-auto

weatherby · #1 12-05-2014, 01:49 PM

Yep.....It an H&R model 700 DX chambered for 22 WMRF

Fishinfool · #2 12-05-2014, 02:00 PM

Nice rifle. The stock looks like those they used to use on the old "Ultra" line of rifles. Is that an Australian sourced action used on that rifle? Cant remember the name of the maker I am thinking of.

Larry

gregintenn · #3 12-05-2014, 02:06 PM

Looks great! It seems that H&R was about the only company to successfully pull off a semi auto 22 magnum.

weatherby · #4 12-05-2014, 02:12 PM

Is that an Australian sourced action used on that rifle?

I'm not sure Larry but if you find something out I'd like to hear about it.

found this on the web

It is a modified Reising design

weatherby · #5 12-05-2014, 02:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gregintenn

Looks great! It seems that H&R was about the only company to successfully pull off a semi auto 22 magnum.

I believe they were the first and Ruger made some as well a 10-22 magnum

weatherby · #6 12-10-2014, 02:17 PM

A little range report.
Function was fantastically flawless.
It liked to eat em up and spit em out.

accuracy I only found one load that it would group.
Everything else was more of a pattern.
It did like Hornady 30 grain VMax so coyotes and Bobcats beware.

bishopm14 · #7 12-10-2014, 07:41 PM

That is a nice one. Looks like it shoots that load well.

I have one in the safe, just a plain, non deluxe version. Not near that nice, it has several stock dings and a little rust here and there. It originally belonged to a relative in the mid 1980's. With a negligent discharge, a friend of the relative died. So, my Dad ended up with the rifle since they didn't want it around anymore. He used it quite a bit for a general purpose rifle around the place. I remember around 1990, watching him nail a trotting coyote with it at around 240 yards, with iron sights, off of our front porch. The delayed sound of the bullet hitting the coyote was quite noticeable at that range. A neighbor later found the critter dead, close to a half mile away, and in his thinking he knew it was shot with a .22 since there was just an entrance and no exit wound. An eighth mile coyote round the .22 WMRF ain't.

I also know of at least one time when the H&R was pressed into service as a wet weather muzzleloader and took a deer (not by me, and probably twenty years ago ) in fine Okie tradition.

Info on them is scarce (along with magazines $$$$$$), I had not heard of them being based on the Reising design, but I would believe it since the actions look pretty similar.