John Wooters was a fan of Sako Mannlichers for hunting the East Texas woods.
The majority of trackers and still-hunters who I know or have known favored lever, pump, or semi-auto actions when hunting in tight cover unless they were hunting during a muzzle loader season and were limited by law to a single shot. As a group they felt that bolt action rifles were slower to cycle for follow up shots. One of my still-hunting mentors, Thelma, shot a Remington 600 in 243, but she moved through the woods like her Abenaki ancestors and shot like Annie Oakley, so most any buck that she went after was living on borrowed time. Thelma was a meat hunter, so she went for big bodies and cared nothing for antler size or shape.
