I get it but the idea i was choosing for you and that you would end up happy with it after awhile.
In a practical sense you aren’t gaining anything with an 18-20” barrel on an AR. A modern 16” pencil barrel and a minimalist free float tube would be more than sufficient.
Alright. I got the solution.
AR-15 but with… wait for it….
no furniture on it at all. Just steel and aluminum.
AR-15 but with… wait for it….
no furniture on it at all. Just steel and aluminum.
Might be an improvement. I can go all Swampratt and carve the stock and handguard from scrap lumber.
And now, for something completely different
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Just buy a ar-15 pistol then you can change it to a rifle and also change uppers
Now your talking!
Why????
I have a spare BCG if we end up doing it.
" I competed with M1As and my Mini-14, just to prove the superiority of the design. (once me and my Mini went completely underwater in a creek minutes before the 500 stage)" per Ted Kennedy.
First off I have been actively shooting 3-gun matches since 1995, and this statement is absolute fallacy! The M1A is a good rifle, but it needs a lot of work to make accurate enough for the action shooting sports. In the infancy of 3-gun, it was more reliable than AR-10s, but around 2005 that all changed with the AR-10 becoming just as reliable with good magazines (sunset of 1994 omnibus crime bill). Presently the AR-10 is much more accurate and as reliable at a fraction of the cost in factory rifle to factory rifle. Bottom line equal! Neither is superior, with accuracy far superior in the AR-10.
Now on to the Mini-14..... First, I have never seen a mini-14 win a single major match, ever! I only knew of one person that shot one in most matches and that was Cheryl Fordice....which I don't think is Ted's real name. The Mini-14, up until really recently has always been a 3-5 M.O.A. gun which is never going to be enough accuracy to win a match. Next, I have seen many Mini-14s break over the years, the extractors break, the op rods break, the firing pin fails, the trigger group liked to break the trigger pin. Unless you had factory Ruger mags it was a jam-o-matic! and the sights are terrible. It is an absolutely abominable competition rifle and there is almost no
Accessory or up grade that can help it. Now I tried to like the Mini. I tried every trick to bed, tune and accurrize it! Nothing worked! I also used an M1A up until 2000! I even placed 5th in the old SOF world championship using one, but it had lots of work done to it. Bottom line!
They are not superior in any way! and this statement is an outright pipe dream especially when it comes to the Mini-14s in any competition!
First off I have been actively shooting 3-gun matches since 1995, and this statement is absolute fallacy! The M1A is a good rifle, but it needs a lot of work to make accurate enough for the action shooting sports. In the infancy of 3-gun, it was more reliable than AR-10s, but around 2005 that all changed with the AR-10 becoming just as reliable with good magazines (sunset of 1994 omnibus crime bill). Presently the AR-10 is much more accurate and as reliable at a fraction of the cost in factory rifle to factory rifle. Bottom line equal! Neither is superior, with accuracy far superior in the AR-10.
Now on to the Mini-14..... First, I have never seen a mini-14 win a single major match, ever! I only knew of one person that shot one in most matches and that was Cheryl Fordice....which I don't think is Ted's real name. The Mini-14, up until really recently has always been a 3-5 M.O.A. gun which is never going to be enough accuracy to win a match. Next, I have seen many Mini-14s break over the years, the extractors break, the op rods break, the firing pin fails, the trigger group liked to break the trigger pin. Unless you had factory Ruger mags it was a jam-o-matic! and the sights are terrible. It is an absolutely abominable competition rifle and there is almost no
Accessory or up grade that can help it. Now I tried to like the Mini. I tried every trick to bed, tune and accurrize it! Nothing worked! I also used an M1A up until 2000! I even placed 5th in the old SOF world championship using one, but it had lots of work done to it. Bottom line!
They are not superior in any way! and this statement is an outright pipe dream especially when it comes to the Mini-14s in any competition!
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