I bought a Model 100 about 10yrs ago, and t's my favorite semi-auto. I've had BAR's, 742's, but the Model 100 is the best looking, is lighter, and better designed.

I'll be a fan if I could get a box load of parts for them.Too bad Winchester can't build them today.Winchesters 100s put big greens autos to shame largely in part because Win used short action receivers and more simple bolt lockup.

I've had a couple of them and shot a couple more. All were acceptably accurate. I wouldn't agree that they are superior the the BAR, but I do like the one-piece stock with its clean lines.

The stock, by the way, is the most difficult to remove and replace of any I have ever run across.

You bet; I deer hunt with a carbine, not to accurate but handy when I'm the dog man! I take a rifle north for spare gun when moose hunting. If you bed the forescrew area on the rifle it'll cut you group size in 1/2, at least in my 100 rifle it did!! Now regularly shoots 1 1/2" groups at 100' That's lots good for hunting!! Also curious, I've had about 4 now & only 1 would shoot off bags without jamming, while they all cycle fine freehand.

I've only owned one in 308 caliber. It performed fine at the range but jammed intermittantly while hunting even after a complete stripped down cleaning. I got rid of it and bought a BAR in 308 and it has never jammed on me. I've had it about 10 years and put a synthetic stock on it and it shoots consistant 1.5" groups. I only use it occasionally now but it functions far better than the 100. I'll agree that the 100 is a very handy rifle with good power if it only functioned better. I believe that is why they were discontinued.

Ralph; don't be so fast to condem them on the basis of one rifle, I've found they can be very bullet specific. I have one that won't cycle round nose period, while another cycles psp, round nose, even 170 flat point downloaded to 2200fps. I too, have a BAR 308, GREAT action but not near as hunter friendly as a good M-100!!!

I have owned a half dozen of them. 3 Pre '64's and 3 Post, with the basket weave checkering. All were accurate and reliable except for one which occasionally failed to fully eject a spent shell, jamming the return stroke. A new ejector plunger spring was needed. I rebored one to .358 Winchester and it was my primary Maine woods gun, for a time. The rotary lock-up is strong, but prone to lock-up in freezing rain. The Remington auto (Model 742) in .30-06 was not as trim and somewhat heavier but was 100% reliable. My bare hands got cold holding the receiver all day as it slipped from my grasp too easily while wearing gloves. I found the Browning autos excellent but I was always preoccupied with scratching it up. The best woods/swamp hunting auto I used was the Ruger Carbine in .44 Mag.

My Model 100 is a .308 and shoot's under MOA with almost any load, and never ever jams. It is very easy on brass, something I can't say about the Rem jam-a-matic 742's, or that heavy pig BAR!