So what you are saying is that it's time to drag the Garand out of the back of the safe and put an optic on it? ;)
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That suggests that the M-14 was obsolete before it was designed. It was a nice rifle, though.
Yes, the M14 was obsolete before it was fielded (especially given the advent of the AK47) and is a POS that needs to be retired. In fact, the M1 rifle was probably more reliable than the M14, yet even the M1 was obsolete before the end of WWII, once the MP43/StG44 hit the field.
http://www.lightfighter.net/topic/m14-is-not-so-great
http://looserounds.com/2015/01/30/th...the-m14-legend
http://www.lightfighter.net/topic/m1a?page=1
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/677383.pdf
They had to literally rig the test in favor of the M14 in order for it to beat the FAL as detailed in the somewhat dry but excellent book The American Rifle: A Biography.