I have almost an bone stock DPMS bull barrel that will group 2" at 300 yards with factory Remington 55 gr hollow point. The BEST Ruger Mini 14 I've seen with factory barrel (not counting rebarrel) would group over 1" at 100 yards (very rare). My DPMS cost 700$ and is out of box except for Jard trigger. I HAVE built extremely accurate Mini 14s (sub 1/2" groups), BUT it cost a lot and wound up with a different handling rifle than before, with just the barrel blank approching 350$ by itself. As much as I like Ruger, the modern AR gets the nod-especially since they're the TC Contender of the sporting rifle world. By that I mean you can have 2-3 scoped uppers and change calibers in seconds.