About 20 years ago I started fiddlin with a mini-14. I was a true believer. After this and that and the other thing I tried, I just gave up. It is what it is. And I never did like the way the magazines wobble and lock up; just don't like it.
If Ruger would make it take an AR magazine, if they put a heavy barrel and gas block designed for the heavy barrel, I am sure it would become an honest 2moa or better. Ruger really failed with the mini-14. That little carbine had a LOT of potential. I know they keep making money with it, so in that sense they did not fail, but I always thought that little carbine could have been a REAL rifle.
This.
kwg
