The Mini is a fun gun to shoot. Was my first 5.56/.223 rifle I ever owned. Blew up a lot of old cans of Barbasol back in the day! I pimped it out with a lot of Mini stuff from Bushmaster - back before they got ruirnt.
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I completed my Christmas build a little early- I joined the Mini 14 club
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I liked my Mini-14.
I had it configured several different ways over the decades I owned it.
But several years ago I decided that I was not going to increase the number of guns in my gun collection, yet I wanted
a 20 inch barreled AR-15 rifle with a fixed stock. So... the Mini 14 got sold for pretty much the same money it took to buy the AR.
I would live somebody to invent a
scaled-down (80% of full size?)
Mini-14,
or M14,
or M1 Garand,
that uses the .17 Hornady magnum rimfire round.
Not intended as a combat weapon, but a fun plinker and a training rifle for kids, teenagers, and women.
scaled-down (80% of full size?)
Mini-14,
or M14,
or M1 Garand,
that uses the .17 Hornady magnum rimfire round.
Not intended as a combat weapon, but a fun plinker and a training rifle for kids, teenagers, and women.
I'm no firearms engineer so I don't know all the reliability issues BUT - if Ruger would design a new Model Mini that accepts AR mags and a solid rail then I'd be all over it.
I bought 1 of my mini’s for $ 400
The other I traded a $300 20 ga shotgun for it
My AR is a Frankenrifle assembled by some member here.
It does have a forward assist, a modern 1:9 twist barrel, finger-adjustable windage and elevation knobs on the rear peep sight.
Despite its triangular hand guard and three prong flash hider and short buttstock, it is not a true M-16 or M16A1 replica.
It does have a forward assist, a modern 1:9 twist barrel, finger-adjustable windage and elevation knobs on the rear peep sight.
Despite its triangular hand guard and three prong flash hider and short buttstock, it is not a true M-16 or M16A1 replica.
I love being able to hit the broadside of a barn…occasionally. The mini 14 can definitely meet that need!
Almost bought a new one from TG&Y for $159.00 more years ago than I care to remember. Same case had an XP-100 for $159.00 and I was a couple of days to young for the pistol. Bought a new 444 that day instead.
