The semi autos I saw had a lot more issues with reliability than the bolt guns.Why do you suppose that is? Maybe the accurate semi 22s are expensive, I have a few higher end guns like volquartsen and tacsol, they are as accurate as anything I’ve shot but they were expensive.
I’ve never been around a Volquartsen or Tacsol so I can comment on those.
But the normal 10/22 with a stock/chassis, heavy barrel and a trigger group still had reliability issues.
For the size of the targets in a match, I’d rather have a 2 MOA rifle that goes bang every time than a .5 MOA gun with issues.