Posted on 08/19/2024 5:46:34 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
YouTube link: Eleven-year-old Autumn Fry handling an AR15 rifle
The A-Team hitting their targets would have ended the shooting scenes in 15 seconds instead of being able to drag them out for half the episode.
Hey, it’s just a TV show!
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I’ve shot a couple of mid-90s Mini-14s and they aren’t even as accurate as BB-guns because of the thin barrels. I have heard the newer ones have thicker, stiffer barrels and are much better.
And a bad one. Never watched, back in the day. It came onto a favorite channel in syndication, a couple of years ago. Couldn’t believe that it had an audience.
Hence while the early models could “chamber” the 5.56 but it was not optimal, especially if you try to chug more than a cpl mags thru. Once again, if you can get a Bushmaster then I would absolutely recommend getting a mini too. Common sense.
Really? Good!
Hey Feds. I love guns!
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I have both the AR-15 and Mini-14. Both are very accurate.
If I had to choose just one of them, I’d go with the AR-15 because there are more after-market accessories. And the after-market Mini-14 magazines became unreliable after a couple of years.
On the other hand, Ruger customer service is fantastic. They gave me a new Mini-14 when they discovered my original Mini-14 had an ejector issue.
“It’s one of the stupid realities of gun control in NYS that the AR 15 is illegal while the Mini 14 is legal.”
The Mini-14 is legal in all 50 states. The only difference is the magazine limits for each state. That’s why I bought the Mini-14 when I lived in California. The AR-15s sold there were truncated ones, and I wanted no part of that.
Every A-Team Episode:
- A-Team shows up somewhere in the van
- Locals are being terrorized by bad guys
- A-Team takes on bad guys, usually after building some kind of contraption
- Massive shootout, but no-one gets shot
- Bad guys vanquished
- Military police show up to take A-Team into custody, but they escape to the set of next week’s episode!
Rinse, repeat.
I meant the stupidity of the laws, but I guess I wasn’t really clear. Two weapons, both semi auto firing the same ammo, but one looks scary.
1) Cheaper:
2) Very easy to repair by yourself;
3 Every known problem is well known, so if you have a problem it is easy to diagnose;
4) Parts are plentiful and cheap; and
5) It is the Leggo of rifles (You can highly modify it to your own preference) with little skills and to your own preference.
Having said that, the mini-14 feels really good in my hands
most amazing part is Themtube that shadowbans almost every sentence i use when posting allows this video.
IMHO, the popularity of the mini-14 is due to it’s similarities to the M1A and the M1 carbine.
I had a Mini long before an AR. It’s a fun gun at the range, no doubt, but in the field I struggled to acquire targets quickly. Mine is an old one without a good way to attach optics (I tried).
I have good mags for the Mini, both 20 and 30 rounders. It doesn’t jam. I can ping a 8” gong offhand at 100 yards all day. But for more demanding shots the AR is way more accurate.
You dissin' the A Team? Why, I pity da fool!
When network TV was fun.
I am personally biased against the mini-14 as I had to maintain a law enforcement agencies inventory of them for nearly 20 years. The newer 580 series and higher are better, but they’re all finicky to work on. The 180 series rifles drove me to distraction with shifting point of impact: the stock sights were a bit fragile. The ghost ring sights of the current models are a big improvement. The AR pattern rifles are just more robust. Plus the AR pattern rifles are actually cheaper than current mini 14’s.
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No tire or piece of ground was safe from the A-Team.
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