Thanks for weighing in on this, guys! I know it doesn't seem important to many, but besides the roughout work inside my IDE Polytech, I didn't find much to dislike about the factory stock.
I wish I would have bought more for the $350.00 I paid for it in 1991.
Of course I wish I would have bought more mags when they were cheap, and other GI parts...who'd have thought that these things would go up so quickly in value, or that the M14 would have such a resurgence in popularity!
And if wishes were fishes we'd all have a fry.