I've never fingered a M14 or the even more desirable 14 1/2 in a .35, but my uncle has a .30 Remington and a friend has a .32 Remington M14 and they felt more like a BB gun compared to my 141. That thing was all steel and a real chunk even with the bobbed barrel. That was back in my youth when I thought that I could walk down a deer until I realized that they had 4 legs and I only had two and they could go twice as fast.

My other auto is a .45

The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory