Mini 14 thread.
>>65262650Its a good gun. Definitely a cool gun. Maybe even the best gun if you’re in a ban state, in terms of semi auto rifles. At least its not a cucked AR with a fixed magazine or other such nonsense. Every mini-14 thread a bunch of faggots show up out of the woodwork and bitch about basically how its not an AR. IDK why people are like this with rifles. Itd be like in a handgun thread if there was a massive contingent of people who only said ‘get a glock’ and shit on every gun that wasnt a glock. Enjoy some fucking variety in your life. ChristAnd then the old canards which are all basically bullshit or false. >its inaccurateNot since 20 years ago. In a thread about cars would you bring up how the 2004 toyota corolla had bad reliability or whatever? Its far more than serviceable for target shooting or any realistic scenario. And no your 1 story ranch house isn’t going to be the next alamo>it doesnt take AR magsAnd a 1911 doesn’t take glock mags. Get a job>it costs too muchName me a good off the shelf AR from a non shit reputable company with good customer support that isnt approaching a thousand bucks. Get a job
Damn, the mini 14 marketer wasted no time defending his overpriced inaccurate proprietary mag rifle to all the 0 people here
>>65262650I love it when a plan comes together.
>>65262955My first exposure to the Mini 14 was GTA Vice City
>>65262650It's pretty cool with the traditional stock for getting to feel like I'm working an m1Garand/m14 for half the ammo cost, but my Ar pretty much beats it in every way for practical purposes.>>65263114It was Left 4 Dead 4 me
>>65263126It was also in the OG Insurgency Sandstorm. But in Vice City it had the folding stock, which tmk, is the only game to do so for some reason.
>>65263132I don't know why I said Sandstorm. I think I am just still annoyed it wasn't in it.
>>65262868I don't have anything against the Mini-14 but it definitely seems worse than an AR by every metric.
>>65262868if its good enough for breivik is good enough for 99% of komando larpers
I like it. Just can’t get past the magazines to buy one so it’s tragically far down my buy list.
>>65263281It is legal to own in some places where the AR is not. Also it is cooler than every AR besides the A1 and earlier models.
>>65263132>in Vice City it had the folding stock, which tmk, is the only game to do so for some reason.The third most played game on Steam right now, which had been in the top 5 most played games on Steam for nearly 10 continuous years, has had a Mini 14 with a folding stock since 2018 and it is one of the most used guns in the game.
>>65263281The question you should ask is if any of those metrics actually matter.
>>65263367I wouldn't say that cucked laws make a gun better.Maybe it's cooler but if its popularity and the AR's were swapped then I bet the AR would be seen as cooler by many who currently think the opposite.
>>65263393It makes it better when you cant own the other option, dummy.
Got an old 180 series barn door one when they were still in the $400 range. Fun shooters but inaccurate past 50 yards
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>>65262650I hope they add the Mini-14 to Tarkov
Mini
>>65263718I want it in Ready or Not
>>65262650Post a picture of your shit talking cat. I know that you OP
>>65263700You can own it, you're just a boot licking pussy that follows unconstitutional laws and would turn in your guns if a politician told you to.
>>65263889Go destroy all of the Flock cameras then, sweetie. k thx <3
I got a wood stock rancher coming soon, was poking around at handguard options as that new plastic one with the overlapped protector looks gross. I really liked the look on the 50th anniversary model.Think im gonna go with the Hannibal rail, they make it with a t2 footprint and toss a cheapo sig on it.Does anyone have experience with the accustrut? I want it for the looks
>>65262650>>65262868Hey as long as we're talking about decent rifles for ban states, does anyone want to review my list of stuff I was going to get and maybe have some other things to suggest?>Mini-14>Mini-30(?)>Norinco 386, sporterized>Kek-tec SU-16>SCR>VZ 58 in stripper clip configuration>M1A (and I could use more .308 suggestions)I'll probably get all of these eventually because I can practically count on my fingers the number of uncucked autoloading rifles that are allowed here
>>65263990I already do, what about you (((sweetie))), how many have you popped. Pro tip, use an air gun, or a powerful laser to burn the lens.
>>65264149I am sure you do.
>>65263281Its pretty
>>65263998If it is a newer one there is no need for an accustrut. New ones have goodish accuracy.
>>65263281This is my most fuddbrained take but I like it because it actually looks like a rifle.
>>65264172That would look great in the Samson stock because it has the bayonet lug and flash hider.
>>65263358As someone with no experience on the Mini 14, why doesn't it accept AR mags? I assume it's a latch issue since there's no where to install a push-button style release like an AR lower has?
>>65264175Folding stocks are less ergonomic 95% of the time. Besides the A-Team look is cliche atp.
>>65264186When they started making the mini 14 in 1972, they simply designed a scaled down m14 mag for it. Stanag literally didn't exist yet. Ar mags were also probably more expensive at the time. Since then there's been no practical reason to redesign the rifle to take ar mags
>>65264203Ah, damn I see now it's got the AK/M14 style tab lever behind the mag. Never noticed that before.
>>65264203AR mags have been STANAG since 1980. Billy "I want mag bans" Ruger didn't want the design to use AR mags.
My first patrol rifle was am mini. It was a fun little rifle.
>>65263358The magazines arent even expensive like what’s the problem. I genuinely dont understand this autistic bugbear. AR Niggas brag about spending like $250 just to get a trigger that doesn’t fucking suck cock from geiselle and another G on retarded tacticool operator attachments not to mention epic custom handguards but you ask them to spend a hundred bucks on magazines one time and they act like they’re getting raped. Makes no sense I swearThe one thing that does genuinely suck about the mini is the stock sights are unforgivably ass and to get a proper red dot setup you should probably get one of those aftermarket rails like the samson hannibal rail to be able to screw in an RMR footprint directly rather than on the included pic mount rail which sits way too high. That said once you do its a pretty slick and cool piece of kit that doesn’t compromise the classic look of the mini which objectively shits on every AR except m16a2 recreations in terms of aestheticsIn any case though its the best communist state rifle no question
>>65264266A magazine well would ruin the look of the rifleNot disagreeing with you about Billy but I dont think he's why it doesn't take ar mags
>>65264422>The magazines arent even expensive like what’s the problemtheyre not always in stock and when they are theyre 3x the price of a pmag
>>65264798>3 x $7.99Oh no the horror
>>65262650wish i couldve found a cheap one before the ban
>>65264203AR-15 mags were Colt's proprietary design back then, since the rights to the AR-15 platform hadn't expired yet. So Ruger had to come up with another solution for their magazines.
>>65264149It'd be cool if you actually were wrecking Flock cameras, but you outright just sound like the typical blowhard who spergs out whenever the subject of bans and the NFA comes up.
>>65262650I have the folding stock on my Mini and I absolutely love it. Got a fixed 3x on it and it shoots great. Take it out to 100+ yards without much issue. Also kicking a magazine out with a fresh one is so kino.
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>>65263725It's the gun in the shell in a bunch of those 80s/90s scifi action movies, I think mostly because it was reliable with blanks.
>>65265556Same reason Beretta 92's are popular. All you really need to do to make one blank ready is to cut the tabs off of the locking wedge and they run blanks really well.
>>65264791True, but a new stock could probably be made that has a small magwell that wouldn't look *that bad*.
