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    That is it. I am quitting this popsicle stand and moving on over to the Colorado Mini14 Shooters web site.

    Can anyone help me find that web site?

    This thread is a good example of what some of us do when we have nothing better to do or don't want to do what we should be doing.

    Be safe.
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    I don't feel like doing what I am supposed to do today.
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    Quote Originally Posted by fmj50 View Post
    Less accurate, hmm, not with a barrel stabilizer. I'd like to do a 100 yards iron sight test.
    Reliability I'd say is way better, and the long history of the action is 2nd to none for reliability.
    Well, now Tapco makes good poly mags, that they say work great, like the pmags in the AR.
    A little heavier, but, I can fold my stock and still fire the gun too.
    Less accessories, well I guess you got me on that one, that is until you add a quad rail to a mini, then AR accessories work on it and the new models have a rail over the breech and still allow iron sights, so .....
    It comes down to weight?
    What is a barrel stabilizer?
    What is a 100 yards iron sight test and how does it relate to the accuracy of a rifle?
    Who is Tapco?
    What is a rail over the breech?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sawin View Post
    Everything about this rifle screams "tapco" to me... in case you didn't know, Tapco is a waste of money (IMO, of course...).
    Looks like a CTD catalog threw up all over it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cstone View Post
    That is it. I am quitting this popsicle stand and moving on over to the Colorado Mini14 Shooters web site.

    Can anyone help me find that web site?
    It's a BBS. You're going to need a 1200 baud modem.

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    Back when you could get a Mini 14 for $250 while an AR was $500+, I could see the niche for the Mini. I even owned one from 1983 - 1995.

    But accuracy was abysmal. Also when the Chinese started importing SKSs and AKs that undercut the price of the Mini the market niche all but disappeared. The final nail in the Mini's coffin was the explosion of AR clones following the expiration of the AWB in 2004.

    Nowadays from what I've seen the Mini is more expensive than a base model AR. And I can't think of one way in which the AR is not superior to the Mini. The Mini's one virtue was its price point and with that gone I'm surprised Ruger is even still making them.

    Would you buy a Trabant when you could get a BMW? Especially if the Trabant was more expensive than the BMW?

    For those who are too young to know what a Trabant is, here's a link:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant
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    How many babies can you fit on a Mini 14 bayonet? Feel free to post your pics...

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    Quote Originally Posted by BushMasterBoy View Post
    How many babies can you fit on a Mini 14 bayonet? Feel free to post your pics...
    Just the one

    Bayonet still missing

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    https://youtu.be/XGRCRJo9-mM

    Killing those cute sacred cows, one video at a time.
    The myth that AR-15's are a flawed design and that we should all travel back in time and use the same action from the M-1 Garand/Carbine/ M-14 as it's a truly "proven" system is absolute horse shit. There's a reason the AR-15 has been in front line service with the U.S. Armed Forces for over 50 years, there's a reason the Marine Corps ditched the M-14 platform as a DMR platform and went with the MK-12 and M-110.

    MOA accuracy, resistance to failure in extreme adverse conditions have NEVER been hallmarks of the Garand action.

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    I have to agree with the OP.

    A wood stocked, stainless steel Mini makes a much better club than most ARs.
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    I don't know about this OP. The A-Team used these all the time and they couldn't hit Shit with them. The stainless mags were nice though.


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