My experience with a M14. Got to hold one for a couple minuets when I was at boot camp at Great Lakes in the 60s.
With that said the M14 and the BAR are on my bucket list of "got to shoot". Living in the peoples republic of NY that aint going to happen here. When we travel out of state I have shot a bunch of Full Auto guns.
I really want to try a BAR, but would not be disappointing to get my hands on a M14 in its place.