amoebicmagician
Samopal Goblin
The new ones are very very accurate. But to be fair, the old ones were pretty accurate, they just tended to string higher and higher as you shot, ending up about 3 inches high after the barrel heated all the way up at 100 yards.
That was the joke, that that was the reason the DOC got them, so they could take the same point of aim on a fleeing prisoner and the gun would automatically adjust up for windage as they shot.
I'm a HUGE fan of the newer mini-14s, but then I'm probably a bigger fan of the old ones.
Bottom line is this: the downside to the newer minis is that they tightened the tolerances and changed a few things in the mag well so that many aftermarket magazines will not work correctly. Ruger has always been known for jealously guarding their ability to have their factory mags work flawlessly in their platforms, while others are hit or miss.
The only mag that works in all mini-14s other than the factory mags is the second generation of the second generation of tapco mags, so basically version 2.5 of the tapco mini-14 mags. They stiffened the polymer and reinforced the front lug with steel, they work great in all my minis, although every once in awhile you gotta forcefully seat them. If you're racking it in the way you should, you will never notice the difference, if you are a little ginger about it you will hit a slight bit of resistance until you either sand down the cubic micrometer of polymer rubbing against the magwell or use the mags enough to break them in. Tapco was really good to me, even after all the stupid crap of SB281 I had a 30 round magazine that broke of the gen 1 tapco mini mags. I told them this, since they have a 100% no questions asked guaruntee. They said they couldn't send me a new magazine without breaking the law, HOWEVER, if I could send them the broken body of the magazine, they would replace it with the body of a gen 2.5 mag, which they did since I guess that does not constitute sending you a magazine, merely the parts to repair you old one.
Good company, Tapco. Their polymer engineers are excellent.
That was the joke, that that was the reason the DOC got them, so they could take the same point of aim on a fleeing prisoner and the gun would automatically adjust up for windage as they shot.
I'm a HUGE fan of the newer mini-14s, but then I'm probably a bigger fan of the old ones.
Bottom line is this: the downside to the newer minis is that they tightened the tolerances and changed a few things in the mag well so that many aftermarket magazines will not work correctly. Ruger has always been known for jealously guarding their ability to have their factory mags work flawlessly in their platforms, while others are hit or miss.
The only mag that works in all mini-14s other than the factory mags is the second generation of the second generation of tapco mags, so basically version 2.5 of the tapco mini-14 mags. They stiffened the polymer and reinforced the front lug with steel, they work great in all my minis, although every once in awhile you gotta forcefully seat them. If you're racking it in the way you should, you will never notice the difference, if you are a little ginger about it you will hit a slight bit of resistance until you either sand down the cubic micrometer of polymer rubbing against the magwell or use the mags enough to break them in. Tapco was really good to me, even after all the stupid crap of SB281 I had a 30 round magazine that broke of the gen 1 tapco mini mags. I told them this, since they have a 100% no questions asked guaruntee. They said they couldn't send me a new magazine without breaking the law, HOWEVER, if I could send them the broken body of the magazine, they would replace it with the body of a gen 2.5 mag, which they did since I guess that does not constitute sending you a magazine, merely the parts to repair you old one.
Good company, Tapco. Their polymer engineers are excellent.
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