RE: Accurizing a Mini-14?
HighDesertWolf: If you are getting those kind of groups with the factory barrel, then you might have a one-in-a-million rifle. Most Mini-14's can group no better than about the size of an apple. They also tend to walk as they heat up. I have know folks who put really expensive match grade barrels on these rifles and they improved to maybe 1.2 MOA. A few of them will run with an accurized AR-15, but the odds aren't good. The weapon does not appear to have been designed with precision shooting in mind . . . . In fact, the average Colt H-Bar or RRA with a stock barrel will shoot a little better than the average Mini-14 with a match barrel.