Why the fuck is this piece of shit so expensive? After seeing it shilled on here so often I looked into buying one since I have some pocket money to burn. But then...
$1000-1100 new?! $700-800 used?!
They're worth $500 tops. It's a sub par rifle.
Fuck this. I'm buying a WASR, PTR, or maybe I'll just build another AR because at least I can get my money's worth from that.
Mini hate thread.
I cash traded $900 for my friends mini that came with a folding stock like the pic, a decent scope, and 11 mags (9 ruger, 2 generic) and i fucking love it. Its smooth and accurate, and has eaten whatever dog shit Serbian ammo i put through it. It can also shoot .556 and .223. Im much more comfortable with it than an AR or AK.
Theyre out there for decent prices if you look hard enough. The only issues i have with them are that its a pain in the dick to break them down and clean them, and that the generic mags will occasionally get stuck
Minis are great in cuckifornia. Pussy libs ignore it because it's not black and it doesn't have a pistol grip.
Is that the only advantage a Mini has over literally any other modern semi auto rifle tho?
yep now you know why so many jokes are made about it. its a rifle only the boomers fall for in the fudd shops
we have saigas and other numerous featureless rifles to pick from. and if you are going to spend the $800+ on a mini, you can just buy a fightlite SCR which has an actual AR15 upper for about the same or even slightly less
NO!
They’re expensive because of ban states
OP here. Admittedly I really like how the stainless ones look, but I just cannot justify the cost to myself. It's not that don't have the money, it's just that think they're worth as much as they cost. I can buy a new WASR for the cost of a used Mini.
I hear that. But when it's ANOTHER ar or ANOTHER ak type...you get to thinking, welp I dont have this yet.
Fair enough. I see the point in rounding out a collection.
Pro tip: they've been on clearance at walmart for $300-$399.
Last one in my area just got bought last night.
i live in california and my walmarts have never sold guns since ive been alive
Is picture uploading not working for anyone else?
>$1000-1100 new?! $700-800 used?!
Nigga what?
let me check
>Why the fuck is this piece of shit so expensive?
Boomers are the answer to all your questions. Yes even the proprietary magazines.
I spent $500 on top of the base $720 cost to make mine look like a French Mousqueton AMD.
Je ne regrette rien.
I got mine from a gun store for $700 new learn how to shop
Ian? Is that what you've been doing with all those Patreon bux? Fuck...
Let the hate flow through you
Wasn’t the Mini-14 used to kill 80 some odd kids? That’s far more than an AR-15 accomplish.
>blued, not stainless
>fuck huge pinned flash suppressor so its not SBR
Hate? naw, that's just disappointment.
>They're worth $500 tops
They're out of stock right now, but bookmark this link in case they ever get any more LEO surplus: armsunlimited.com
It's a shitty rifle, but people love it because they live in cuck states, and because of vidya like PUBG.
kek did you post this on Facebook earlier today?
I want the top setup
Thanks user! I'll snatch one up if they ever get more.
Haha you're poor.
My LGS sells them for $600
i did some reserch into and found modles made after 2005 are regfarded as way more accurate and much better the easiest way to tell if a rifle is made after 2005 is
>serial number obv
>scope mount points
Naw, I'm just gonna buy a decent AK instead because why spend the same or more for an objectively inferior rifle?
1. The MSRP is quite a bit higher than you're going to find them selling for at an actual gunstore.
2. There are plenty of reasons to want one. If all you can afford is to build a poverty-15, then maybe you decide to hate the America-14. Not my problem.
>There are plenty of reasons to want one.
What are they then? Other than complying with cuck laws.
>tfw 200th year of american liberty mini-14 inherited from my dad
seems good for a manlet like me
>not the a-team stock
saved and gonna fap to that later, thanks user
NP dude.
>garand action rifle produced by a single company using investment grade castings is more expensive than a rifle that has been in military service for 50+ years and produced by everyone and their brother
A new one is like $700
stop crying poorfaggot
I think that's parkarized, not blued.
>that 30 year old boomer that complains about rifles that predate the AR15's popularity not taking STANAGS
Feels good to not be a poorfag
Wanting to spend my spend my money on more accurate and reliable rifles that are equally priced means I'm a poorfag? Or maybe you salty fags just have bad taste and/or have to comply with cuck laws? lol
>accustrut with wood stock
Delilcious
>French Mousqueton AMD
Needs the old school blade front sight, 180 series rear sight, get a brown butt pad and call it good!
Well done! Sweet rifle.
>complaining that rifle which basis start in off a design developed in 1930's and is made out of wood and steel is not as practical or cheap as something modern
Are you the same person that complains about FAL's and M1A's cost more than a JUST AS GOOD pa10 for some dryer lint and chewed up bubble gum?
Only dumb summerfags look at a mini 14 and tries to act like it's a AR15 replacement in 2018.
People buy a mini if they want a M14 that's lighter and cheaper to shoot, or something different for variaty, that's literally the name of the gun
>MINI
>14
This guy speaks the truth
fuck man look at that blue. go on, rock the lever back a little bit, yeah push up against the hammer i like that
I intentionally started with the 580 series to keep some accuracy. I also like the 3 pronged sight so I kept that. It has a "secret" modification where the front sight blade can be replaced by screwing in a new front sight post. Right now I have a tritium front sight screwed in.
The mag release is also wrong, but I don't think I would be able to use the French version (pic related) as easily.
Is there something I am missing here? A scope for $30?
cdnnsports.com
I know the title says it's a mount, but the description is for a scope.
just put the shitty cuck grip on it, its not worth that much more money to keep it of
It's garbage
>Investment grade castings
It's investment casting. Not investment grade.
Investment is the name of the process when the wax is coated in ceramic slurry.
Personally, I see no benefit to the receiver being investment cast. Sure it would be hard to do it with slides and cores, but I suspect you could die cast the receiver just as well, and in much shorter order, given that die castings don't have to sit nearly as long to cool and require much less prep to complete.
Investment cast has to have its wax center die cast, then coated and attached to its delivery system, then invested (coated in ceramic slurry) Then coated in silicates manually, THEN machine coated over DAYS, THEN the wax can be melted out of the mold and then the mold can be heated up and metal poured in. This process must be done for each individual part because the mold is single use, and is discarded in retrieving the part.
Die casting on the other hand, requires a die to be made once and it's good for many many parts. The die is loaded into a casting machine and is preheated. After the loading process is done, and the dies are heated up and lubed with shotbeads, the appropriate shot-well is attached and an appropriate shot tip is in place, an auto ladler pickes up the right amount of molten metal, pours it into the shot well, and the shot ram slams the molten metal right into the die cavity where it fills, solidifies and then the dies are pulled apart by the machine and extracted onto a hopper to wait for the gates, runner, and flash to be trimmed off in a trim die before the casting goes to second ops. Generally, making such a casting takes about 45-90 seconds per machine cycle, depending on how well the mold runs and then it sits a couple minutes before being trimmed. THEN we load the trimmed parts into a cart where they go to the girls in second ops who file the parts clean, and put them in crates to ship to the customer.
So naturally I see it being cheaper to die cast mini receivers.
Why the fuck would Ruger, a company that literally has been doing investment casting since the founding of the company and does work for other industries as well, start die casting mini receivers now?
...Because it's faster, easier and therefor cheaper? However, I'd like to ask the OTHER question. Why the fuck would a company use such an intricate and expensive process for essentially the same, product? Sure, it would require machining, Buuuuuut, so does investment casting.
What's the best red dot for a mini 14? I'm trying to go for something with a retro aesthetic.
This 100%
Sometimes I really don't understand the logic on this board.
>>i live in california~
And the cure for that is: move!
They are on clearance but not for that little. I got mine for $600
>Yes even the proprietary mags
Yea don't remind me, 200 dolans in mags here
I dunno about retro, but I have a 30mm red dot in my front scope ring
More pics of your mini plz
With everything on it, it's like 10.5 lbs
boomer fudd tax
>things being more complicated to produce is x meme y insult tax
i work at a pawn shop and we cant even get a mini for $300. BUT i will pawn them for $200 and we've ended up with a few. i bought a used mini30 and its been fucking awesome. its a little picky on ammo but with the right stuff ive never have a malfunction. worth every penny i spent
>came to a mini hate thread
>only found love in the form of blued lever actions
beautiful
Looks good
Your optic doesn't look that bad. What's the specific model?
Yep but it doesn't look as scary.
It really do be like that sometimes.
Are you guys really sexually attracted to guns or is this a joke? If it isn't a joke, how did you get this way? Did you train yourself to be attracted to guns by only jerking off to pics of guns?
Thank you, you as well, nice finish on the wood.
It's a Primary Arms 30mm red dot. Exact model number: PA30MMRD-AD.
>After seeing it shilled on here so often
You're already lying
Its my favorite rifle
source
>its a little picky with ammo
Really? I thought the one thing minis weren't picky about was ammo. What stuff does it not work well with?
The shootings literally mentioned on the Wikipedia page for the gun, try google