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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WoodsCraft" data-source="post: 4378098" data-attributes="member: 51836">I shot them on the rifle team when I was in the Army and they are fun to shoot but when you accurize one they become very temperamental ,  removing one from a bedded stock can totally change how it will shoot.Its a decent gun and I own a couple of clones but it was wrong the idea at the wrong time.  Had it been introduced in WWII or Korea it would have be a world beater for a few years .  But really it was obsolete from the get go.  I can say this having spent some serious money making one shoot,  You can build a couple of very accurate AR rifles for what it will cost you to build an M14 that can shoot under 2 moa.  Introduce a scope into the mix and prepare to re zero it when the gun is removed from the stock or not shoot the way it used to.Be really prepared for spending a lot of money if you want to chase the M21 or M25 dream .  Still I have an affliction that calls me to buy and or build them out. I miss the days when those cheap poly techs were around for $400  you could keep the barrel , op rod and receiver and trash the rest of the gun as they were cheap junk parts ,  and build up with USGI parts for a nice shooting rifle fairly inexpensively .</blockquote>