PTR-91 vs Springfield M1a

[Army GI]

The M1A is cool and all...and I've owned one before.

But the G3A3 (and its clones) give me that special warm fuzzy feeling.

[U5512]

The cheap G3 mags aren't CA legal and I haven't seen blocked ones for sale, which eliminates that point if you're in CA.
I've also heard they mangle brass and there is no gas system so it's not adjustable. Some versions are picky about sooty ammo too due to tight fluted chambers. I think the green GI version is GTG, but the higher end ones that are meant for more accuracy have the tight chamber than can cause extraction and feeding issues with some types of ammo.
I was set to order one before I researched it a bit and went with an LR-308 instead. Whatever I want I can make that gun do it with a few cheap tools/parts in my own garage.

You can buy mags for cheap as rebuild kits and block them to only accept 10 rounds. ALL PTR91 guns now have the same fluted chamber as the GI model so there is no more issue of chambering or extracting when use tar sealed ammos. This is confirmed by PTR Industries.

[grommit666]

I love my PTR-91F. Super accurate and unfailingly reliable.

You can reload the brass but it looks ugly. A buffer helps prevent the receiver from dinging the shoulder.

The bull barrel makes it heavy. Add a loaded steel 10/20 magazine and optic and you're over 13 pounds.

All that said, if SHTF, that's the gun I'd grab. It shoots anything without needing to be adjusted. Recoil has never been a problem. It has never, not once, failed to feed or fire in over a thousand rounds. And parts and magazines are cheap.

I did my research when shopping for a semi-auto 308 and I don't regret buying the PTR one bit.

[smle-man]

Owned an HK91 and fired a G3 on the range at Graf; Own an DSA FAL and have owned a couple other FALs and fired an L1A1 on the same range at Graf; own a M14/S and have owned several M1As and shot M14s many, many times. My pick is the M1A followed by the FAL. The G3 type rifle just doesn't cut it for me.

[Nrai2020]

Pretty much everything I ve read online comes down to M1a vs AR10 vs FAL vs SCAR17.. when it comes to .308 SA rifles... PTR is pretty good also.. I guess maybe not enough of them out there or out long enough to make it to the list..

[johnny1290]

I got a heavy buffer for my PTR and a rubber thing for the stock and a cheap UTG rail for optics that's supposed to work well. I need to get the port buffer to help with the brass, but supposedly it's still loadable even without it.

The Gun Bible pretty much spells it out. The PTR91 is ultimate reliability, crap ergos and many find the recoil uncomfortable. FAL has the ergos, but costs much more and less reliable and less accurate. M1A ...meh I refuse to talk about it, fan bois have covered it