I have a newfound appreciation for the M1A/M14 since last week when the company I am contracted with had a brief familiarization session with some short barreled and full length modernized versions. We were getting easy hits on silhouettes at 700 yards with irons which is not what I remember the platform being capable of. Magazines swapping still kind of suck though. Still, I want a baby M1A in my life now. Put a whole bunch of homemade GFL stickers on the stock or something. Trigger the fudds. Problem is, they cost so much more than a really good LR308 build, hard to justify the expense in practical terms.