I've heard the new Minis are more accurate but I'm not buying one for $600 to find out. My old ones would do 4" on a good day.
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I have a newer one now and it does about 3-4", I guess that's about as good as you can expect from a Mini14. I have a friend named Jimmy McCullough who runs McCullough Rifle Co. who can make the older ones tack drivers with a new barrel and some other tricks he knows. If I wasn't so hard headed, I would have let him fix the first one and been $ ahead.
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They do this every year right around this time. Blow out the unsold inventory. Not advertised, be quick or they are sold
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I wonder how well the Mini responds to load development? My Zastava 85 bolt action with flyweight barrel shoots great with .222 level loads, I would think the Mini would too.
Currently casting and loading: .32 Auto, .380 Auto, .38 Special, 9X19, .357 Magnum, .257 Roberts, 6.5 Creedmoor, .30 WCF, .308 WCF, .45-70.
I have a mini stainless that was bought new in the mid 90s. It shot minute of softball with most off the shelf factory but came into minute of angle with berger 62 or 64 grain using ww748 and prepped surplus brass. I hear the newer ones are more accurate. It is much easier to get an AR to shoot well and now days for less cost. Back then my colt AR was over 1k and the mini was bought for 400 bucks. It just makes sense to go another route than a mini now. They're not bad rifles, I just believe they're overpriced in today's market.
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ebner glocken, you are spot on with the "not bad rifles" but they are not as accurate as we might like them to be. In all fairness to Ruger, of the 4 I've owned, the one I have now(new model) is the only one that ever gave any feeding or ejecting problems and the factory fixed it pronto. It runs like a top now. I bought it when Obumer was in office, and I guess I'll just be content with softball sized groups. Yeah, you can get an AR platform to shoot better but I thought it was an ungainly, ugly duck when I first ran across one in the Army and it has not gotten prettier, to me at least) in the subsequent years.
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I'll continue the drift by saying the Mini is much preferred by me for ergonomics and light weight. I've owned two old models and both would eat rocks and shoot them. I jumped a bedded buck with one and it came to my shoulder like a quail gun and two quick shots later the buck was dead. But at heart only accurate rifles keep my interest so down the road they went. If they drop down to the $400 level I will own another! ARs are fun to put together and shoot(I have several) but they are not comfortable hunting guns.
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One of the advantages of being retired is that I could watch Brickseek.com and find out which stores had which guns on closeout. I missed out on the $399 Mini and the $169 10/22 takedown, but I did manage two Weatherbys. One 270 and one 30-06. Both $249.
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Local Wall Mart is "cleaning out the stock" as I was told today. Went to look, and ended up with the Axis 30-06 XP, Bushnell scope 3X9. For $199 could not pass that up as a cast boolit shooter. Clerk said he will find something else to replace in on clearance, so going back after work.
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Spoke to my local Walmart in Winchester, VA and told her about other Walmarts discounting firearms. She responded not here, not with my guns. Oh well.
I've twice made the trip to ask or see if the local WM had a reported sale I read about here. It appears to be only a store by store thing, but not here. All I found was shelves of 22 Lr in good supply.
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Once they were gone, back in August or September, they were gone. Sorry you missed out.
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I would guess that most new Mini sales today are in places where AR's and the like are banned or severely restricted, since they are functionally the exact same thing. I wouldn't turn down a Mini if I found a good deal, they are nice guns and it would be fun to experiment with one.
Currently casting and loading: .32 Auto, .380 Auto, .38 Special, 9X19, .357 Magnum, .257 Roberts, 6.5 Creedmoor, .30 WCF, .308 WCF, .45-70.
It is definitely a store by store event. My Walmart carries no centerfire rifles or shotguns, only a few black powder guns and equipment. One has to check for when it gets discounted. I purchased a new blue steel CVA Wolf for $79, and a year later a stainless one with a cheap scope for $120. 777 pellets for $14/box of 100. I have not been so lucky the past couple of years.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |