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At that MSRP, it's a pass. While a neat gun, it is not comfortable to shoot with that stock. | |||
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The sheepdips in my area won't even allow the Mini for purchase in any of its current forms. So for better or worse, the $1550 or $1800 or whatever this will bloody sell for isn't going to become the usual 1st-world issue in this neck of the woods. -MG | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
 I like my Mini well enough, but I would never pay the current going rate of $1100 for a normal one, let alone $1850. | |||
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Well, that's too bad on the price. Ruger will choke on this one. When I heard they were releasing it again in this configuration, I decided I was finally going to get one. Seeing the MSRP, hard pass. Mini's are just "ok" to begin with, certainly not worth hundreds many hundreds more than a quality AR. I'd have been in for maybe $850 plus or minus. | |||
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Have you see how much regular Mini 14’s cost? A plain blued ranch rifle has a MSRP of $1259. | |||
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Wow. I have a stainless earlier model (before the ranch receiver). It's an old St. John's County sheriff's gun that I bought used in 2012 or so. I think I paid $450 for it. Accuracy isn't horrible on mine, but it's not in the class of my Sig AR. I can't believe they have gotten so expensive, with cheap ARs readily available. I was at the last Orlando gun show, and there was a show special on the Smith & Wesson Sport for $499. "I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation." Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II. | |||
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Prepared for the Worst, Providing the Best |
Just got back from a gun show where I saw at least two listed for $1250 and $1450. And they weren't even the good ones, or rare...just the old wood-stocked skinny barrel type. People are nuts. | |||
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The stock is worth close to that now. | |||
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Get on the fifty! |
Just saw some show up in the wild for $1388 from Grabagun "Pickin' stones and pullin' teats is a hard way to make a living. But, sure as God's got sandals, it beats fightin' dudes with treasure trails." "We've been tricked, we've been backstabbed, and we've been quite possibly, bamboozled." | |||
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Is that for this new folding stock model? “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” | |||
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| Fighting the good fight |
Even then, that's about $500 too high to interest me. | |||
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LOL Yeah, I have a 1990's stainless Ranch Rifle (mini with shitty sights) and I love it (mostly because of the A-team but also because of Romancing the Stone, and I love the Garand, M14, and M1 Carbine actions, and the mini is a mix of all three), but I'd never buy one at full MSRP today. You can just get the Sampson stock for like $300 if you already have a Mini-14 or find one in a dumpster behind the pawn shop https://www.samson-mfg.com/a-t...er-mini-14-copy.html --------------------------- My hovercraft is full of eels. | |||
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Silly rabbit... you don't shoot these from the shoulder. They're made for 80's hipfire as Mad Murdock intended --------------------------- My hovercraft is full of eels. | |||
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| Get on the fifty! |
Yes, exact one "Pickin' stones and pullin' teats is a hard way to make a living. But, sure as God's got sandals, it beats fightin' dudes with treasure trails." "We've been tricked, we've been backstabbed, and we've been quite possibly, bamboozled." | |||
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I guess not. Sad, as these rifles are in no way worth that kind of money, unless you live in some silly area where these are legal and normal AR's are not, if that place still exists. With what it takes to make them, how they operate and their accuracy potential, they should never be worth more than their long standing black rifle competitor, the Colt AR. Those are easily found now from $850-1000 depending on the configuration.
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No, they are not. For less than half the price of what Ruger is now charging for the Mini-14, you can buy a more accurate AR-15, with modularity that the Mini cannot begin to compete. AR-15s don't have bolts that require a fitted firing pin. Optics-mounting options for the AR blow the Mini out of the water. Magazines are far more available and less expensive. The list goes on and on. I own several Minis including a couple of the newer 581 series rifles, but I didn't pay anywhere near what Ruger is asking now. | |||
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I'm inclined to agree. However I expect that Fans of these made up "Special Editions" will claim that they will be worth millions in 20 years. Just like all those darned near infinite Sig Sauer Gun of the Month editions. I've stopped counting. | |||
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More light than heat |
That’s for damn sure. _________________________ "Age does not bring wisdom. Often it merely changes simple stupidity into arrogant conceit. It's only advantage, so far as I have been able to see, is that it spans change. A young person sees the world as a still picture, immutable. An old person has had his nose rubbed in changes and more changes and still more changes so many times that that he knows it is a moving picture, forever changing. He may not like it--probably doesn't; I don't--but he knows it's so, and knowing is the first step in coping with it." Robert Heinlein | |||
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Not trying to be "that" guy but how many fans of the A Team can there still be? WE are the guys who watched that show and we are laughing at the price tag, let alone the nearly obsolescent (not really but comparatively) nature of the Mini 14. Especially with that stock. Is there an underground A Team fan club that I am unaware of? Cool show but not $1850 cool. lol | |||
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I'm guessing they're betting on the 1970s-80s retro craze that's going through music, cars, motorcycles, AR-15s, etc. I don't think they'll sell many of these at anywhere near MSRP though. --------------------------- My hovercraft is full of eels. | |||
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