Would You Actually Trade Your M14 For An FAL?

I remember back in the late '80's....H&K had an catchy add on the back of almost every issue of Firepower magazine. The catch phrase read something like "In a world of compromise...some don't". So if the battle rifle in question was a HK91 rather than an FAL, I would certainly trade it cause I've always wanted a HK91.
 
It's like an M14 with a pistol grip and cocking lever on the left side so you don't even have to break your grip to operate it!

It's like an AR15 that has its man weight with an actual pair of testicles! lol

You can top load it if you had a C1!

I weep every time I see one and know that I will never own one :(
 
I was privileged to have an opportunity to be trained on the C1, to have owned the L1A1 in the eighties for civilian service rifle, never owned but got to try out the G3 and the Galil.

If they were all still all available to me today( like the 399.00 dollar G3!!!!! at Lever I believe), and I mean the USGI M-14 welded up ones as well, in all their 20 round glory,.......I would love to have one of each for sure, but for service rifle matches and range use in general if I choose a 762NATO rifle, I would still prefer the M14 over them all. Maybe the years have jaded me, but maybe there are shooters here who have owned and used them all that can refresh my memory.

Was never impressed with the FN for accuracy(probably just me) or function, shouldering and balance, but liked them for prone shooting and other than that.. "all operations are carried out with the left hand, while the right hand remains on the pistol grip".......... An M-14 always feels like a rifle to me, never passe, just like Enfields and Mausers, Garands and Springfileds and.............so on and so forth. And I have never owned the real McCoy.

I know this is the Battle Rifle forum, but a most worthy successor over the M-14s traditional concept, that was suppose to be found in the G3, the FN, the Galil etc, is for me any good M16A2/C7 civilian variant, sorry.

FN-FAL's have become wishful thinking, the stuff of dreams for younger Canadian riflemen like personal ownership of SMG's is to me( I was old enough, just uninformed at the time).

I would sincerely like for everyone younger on here to have an opportunity to own and be able to shoot their own FAL. Why not you Ottawa Rough Riders, who ride Roughshod over our hobby.... it's just a full-size semi auto big clunker, that Canada happened to field as a service rifle for 30 years. Sad gun laws, preventing nothing, protecting nothing,... just destroying a passion for us who cherish firearms:confused:.

Then younger shooters, after the novelty of ownership wore off,....come back and tell me how you feel now between your US Rifle M14 and your Fabrique Nationale on the firing line.:canadaFlag:
 
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