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The M1A is a nice rifle, and can deliver good accuracy. As an all around rifle that does a lot of things well it would be a good( but as mentioned somewhat expensive) choice, especially if you had to choose one rifle to do all things. As mentioned before, it is somewhat heavy, especially once you add an optics mount and optics. The iron sights on the rifle are excellent, and shooting with them can provide a great deal of satisfaction. Every six months or so I'll take the mount off of mine and shoot it with the open sights just for the fun of it. Good magazines for it are not cheap and the cheap mags are not worth the money. The rifle Ruger480 pointed out to you would be an excellent choice also. It all depends upon what you really want. If the M1A is what you really want, then I'd drop the coin on it. Mine is a little over 20yrs. old, and I have yet to feel a single tinge of regret for buying it. Whatever you decide, enjoy it and give us a range report.
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