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  • fivefivesix
    Talked to a guy at the gun shop the other day when I saw one of those, said he has one and gets pretty respectable groups with it. They do feel a bit weird with that stock and the heavy front end. Anyone here shot one?
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  • Kimbercolt
    I got to shot the mini 14 target. its really nice.
    But at $998.00 its a bit high
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  • Colt Super
    Do they make it in blue steel, without the unusual stock ??

    Doug
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  • Warbirds
    Oh give me a break, I'm waiting six months until they come out with a black one with a bayonet lug and a flash suppresor that is the Ultra Tactical. That link brags about it shooting 1" groups @ 100 yards, which don't get me wrong is phenomenal for a mini-14, but pretty much standard for any rifle you can buy off the shelf at Wal-Mart. And with the way mini-14 prices have gone up in the last five or ten years that hunk or ranch iron probably costs a thousand dollars or so.
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  • Colt Super
    They did the one you're talking about, around 20 years ago.

    They sell for a whole bunch, now.

    Might have been called the AC556 - oh, yeah...it was also full-auto, I believe.

    Anybody know for sure ??

    Doug
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  • KSUmarksman
    quote:Originally posted by Doug Wilson
    They did the one you're talking about, around 20 years ago.

    They sell for a whole bunch, now.

    Might have been called the AC556 - oh, yeah...it was also full-auto, I believe.

    Anybody know for sure ??

    Doug


    the AC-556 is a full auto version of the mini-14.
    IIRC it had a folding stock and flash suppressor, not sure about bayo lug.
    It is the rifle featured prominently in the TV series "The A-Team"

    AFAIK they did not have black AC-556, at least not many of them. Should have been wood furniture/stainless or blued like the semi-auto version.
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  • A J Christ
    Had an early model back in the late '90's that shot real good for a mini-14, around 2" at 100 yards. In one of my moments of stupidity, traded it for another gun, new owner is still making comments on how well it shoots. Wish I'd kept it, like most of the guns I end up trading away.
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  • ndbilly
    quote:Originally posted by Dave W.
    Oh give me a break, I'm waiting six months until they come out with a black one with a bayonet lug and a flash suppresor that is the Ultra Tactical. That link brags about it shooting 1" groups @ 100 yards, which don't get me wrong is phenomenal for a mini-14, but pretty much standard for any rifle you can buy off the shelf at Wal-Mart. And with the way mini-14 prices have gone up in the last five or ten years that hunk or ranch iron probably costs a thousand dollars or so.

    +1 as we say when a fellow poster expresses our opinion before we do.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    quote:Originally posted by Dave W.
    Oh give me a break, I'm waiting six months until they come out with a black one with a bayonet lug and a flash suppresor that is the Ultra Tactical. That link brags about it shooting 1" groups @ 100 yards, which don't get me wrong is phenomenal for a mini-14, but pretty much standard for any rifle you can buy off the shelf at Wal-Mart. And with the way mini-14 prices have gone up in the last five or ten years that hunk or ranch iron probably costs a thousand dollars or so.


    The AC-556 was the select-fire version...but they made a Mini-14 GB, the "GB" standing for "goverment bayonet", according to some sources. It had a lug to accept the standard M16 bayonet, and it had a flash hider, otherwise it was pretty much a standard semi-auto Mini-14. Ruger did not sell them to the public, and the ones out there are police surplus, for the most part.

    Don't hold your breath on Ruger making one with the lug and hider for the general public. That wouldn't be consistant with past practices.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    quote:Originally posted by MVP
    I didn't know they were making a target rifle out of the mini 14

    http://www.ruger-firearms.com/Firearms/FAFamily?type=Rifle&subtype=Autoloading&famlst=61

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    heh, after seeing the title of your thread, I though you were going to say you traded it for a Bushmaster AR[:o)]
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