The Mini is a decent choice. It's Mrs. L's preferred platform. And these days one has almost as many choices to customize it as an AR. The only problem is that skinny barrel. It almost always ends up stringing shots after a long course of fire. There's no way to cool it short of dunking it in a pond.
But it is based on the Garand action, and that makes it reliable. A real bonus is that the Mini will eat almost any type of ammo you can stuff into it.
Mrs L put one of those Bushnell Red Dots on top of hers. She can hit minute of bad guy with the first round out to 200 yards any day of the week. God I love that woman...