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Originally Posted by id10t
Having owned one, you'd be better off with a basic AR-15 from PSA or similar.
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Hmm... I would be curious to hear why you would say that. I hear this sentiment quite often. I'm not disagreeing with you by any means, and I really don't know my way around this particular genre of firearms, so I'm really just curious.
I do actually own two semi-automatic versions of "battle rifles", one a Springfield Armory M1A in their "Scout Squad" version. Not the full length rifle, not the shortest, but the "Goldilocks" version - "just right". Owning this for awhile enticed me to buy its little brother, the Mini 14. I found an early "pre-warning" version. It was stocked in such a way that I couldn't even shoot it, so I wound up purchasing a newer stock from Ruger.
In spite of all of the dire warnings about horrible inaccuracy, it shoots 2 - 2.5 MOA all day long. It's small, light, handy, and 100% reliable. There are a plethora of aftermarket parts for it, the only ones of which I have added are aftermarket peep sights that are a bit easier to adjust.
I admit I don't shoot either much at all. I'm just not that interested. My two sons, both very much into their "black rifles", tell me that I could not have made a worse choice than that M1A. Having been told that, I dove into the internet to see what all of the complaining was all about. Pretty eye opening - turns out they were right.
But, well, that was the M1A. I found no such complaints regarding the Mini 14, other than exceedingly poor accuracy in many of them. Ruger claims to have "fixed" that several years ago with a minor redesign. My first gen pre-warning model doesn't suffer from it, so I don't know what to say about that. Seems to me like a wonderful little rifle for anyone into these things.
So, yeah, just curious - what don't you like about them?