I'm surprised I haven't seen many people pushing the M14. Throw a red-dot or a silencer on it with stopping power and penetration or steady aim - makes it virtually a one-hit-kill with sniper accuracy and machine-gun badassery.
That gun has too much recoil to be a consistent AWESOME gun.
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I don't worry about recoil w/ the m14 because with a 1 hit kill weapon, you shouldn't be taking more than one or two shots at anything but super-close range. And with steady-aim, you don't need to use ironsights anyway when the enemy is decently close.