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Originally Posted by waiting4something
Out of the "big three" 7.62x51 NATO battle rifles. I would pick the G3 last. It's solid enough, but has some short comings the other two don't. You mentioned two of them with the charging handle placement and the selector switch. The other negative is the dead man's click. It also seems to have the worst or most felt recoil of the three. A lot of the G3's out there had those slim forends too. I never shot with a slim one, but they look like they would get hot fast.
I think it is cool Cold War rifle though. I just never understood why HK-91's where so highly praised back in the 1980's and 90's.
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I've owned all three of the big three as well, with the M14 being the Squad Auto version with the pistol grip and drop fore grip (And man is that thing controllable at full auto - miss having a Class Three dealer license). Love the M14, but I preferred the G3 over it and the FAL. FAL is nice, don't get me wrong - I'll take it over a stock M14. But the mags: they flat out suck. Look at it hard, you got a bent lip, and then you got the whole metric/imperial thing.
Now that said, again, if I didn't live in a communist country, err... my bad, Maryland (Which recently banned so many firearms its amazing: one of the categories is labeled: Anything made by Springfield Armoury) I would love to pick up a
DSA OSW, and base it off of a registered receiver. Be a lot of fun to shoot.