Cs&Ps, I doubt seriously that they have improved very much if any in accuracy. Form what I understand, the primar fault of inaccuracy lies in the barrel manufacturing process, and is not an inherent design problem.

The Mini-14 never has and never will rival the AR-15. Other than being chambered in the same cartridge and bother being semi-automatics, that is were the similarity ends. Even on a bad day, a mediocre AR-15 will out shoot the best Mini-14, accuracy wise. The Mini-14 can be made to shoot accurately, and there are several good places that can accurize the Mini-14 into an honest 1-1.5 MOA shooter. I got my first Mini-14 back in 1980, I bugged my dad to take me to a local gun shop, on my 16th birthday, where I had seen one for the first time, and spent the money I had worked for that summer and saved, just for that mini-14. Looking back at it now, I must have gotten extremely lucky and got one of the few that actually can shoot accurately. What I call accurately for a mini-14 is 2-2.5" groups at 100yds, with carefully tuned handloads.

I have had several in the shop over the past few years, in which all had the same problem, inaccuracy. The last one, was so bad that at 50yds, the best group was 6" with one Rem. factory loading, the others loads would not even keep all 5 shots on a 12"x12" target sheet at 50yds to even see were it was hitting. However it functioned perfectly, as had all the mini-14s I have shot over the years. Short of rebarreling, I finally got it to shoot about 2.5" groups at 50yds and 6" groups at 100yds, which according to it's owner, that was better than it had ever shot before. I advised this guy, to either send it to Accuracy Systems to be rebarrled and furhter accurized, or sell it or trade it for an AR-15.

I do like the way the mini-14 feels and handles better than the AR-15, but that's about the only thing that the mini-14 has over the AR-15.