The M14 is still doing the job. I have a Springfield Armory M1A National Match in my defensive arsenal with an ART IV scope.
They are awesome.
When I was at Fort Lee, VA for Officers’ Basic in early 1968, I shot Expert with an M-14. Sweet weapon. If the Army had offered to sell it to me right there they’d have had my check as fast as I could write it. Now I own an M1A that I bought in 1984 for about $650.00.