From what I gather online, these were kinda problematic machines if run in self-loading mode--they broke a lot. The Remington Models 8 and 14 didn't break. You choose.
Regional biases are quite real. In my life, anyplace east of the Mississippi River = Siberia. The area west of that River but east of the Rockies Front Range might be worth seeing and hunting. the western third of the country was My World. In My World, larger game was taken with leverguns and bolt rifles. I don't recall ever seeing a Rem autoloader or pump action rifle among the folks I saw hunting in this area. Pre-64 Winchesters were IT--Molde 94 or Model 70. The End.
In 1984 I went on a whitetail hunt in Mason County, MI. I had along a Remington 700 BDL in 308, and a S&W 586 x 6" meant for the doe tag. Almost to a man, EVERY hunter I met used a Rem autoloader. They looked at my bolt rifle kinda funny. "We have those, too--mostly in museums, though". Smart alecks. There were a scattering of Marlin and Winchester leverguns, but this reliance upon gas guns was quite new to me.
The Rem 700 caused a dust-up, too. When Dad saw it with me on a local mountain deer hunt, you would think I had brought home a Klingon woman to meet him and Mom. Then when I drove up in a Buick sedan after my Ford F-100 died, he acted like I married her. He shook his head in mock anguish and disgust, and said, "Where have I failed?" He was a funny man, and do I ever miss him. Yes, biases are real.