Recent content by parabellum

Yeah, I've never heard of a nine round mag for the Mini-14. TTBOMK the capacity of factory Mini-14 magazines is 5, 10, 20 or 30 rounds.

It's a 10 round magazine.

You guys mind if I ask you the approximate year of manufacture of your rifles? The wide range of results is interesting. I suspect the failures to fire have to do with variances in the maximum firing pin protrusion among these rifles.

I'm not sure if you're joking, but it's part number 23: http://www.midwayusa.com/General.mvc/Index/Schematics~ruger_mini_14

I've long been considering buying a Mini Thirty Tactical, so much so that I bought 4 factory 20 round magazines for it a few weeks ago. Although I would utilize quality brass cased ammo when loading it for defensive use, the primary ammo for practice would be, of course, the Russian and Eastern...

Yes, and I can lock fully-loaded magazines into my M1A rifles with the bolt closed, without crushing cases.

An intelligent man would have paid me the courtesy of operating under the assumption that I am bright enough and experienced enough in this life to have already ensured I am in compliance with my state's laws. Instead, you made the assumption I had not bothered to check, and continued along the...

I'm perfectly comfortable sharpening my claws on any member who wants to act as a scratching post. It is, shall we say, a habit developed from managing web forums for years. Thanks, though. It's excellent advice. :wink:

I appreciate your efforts, Sam, but nothing the guy has posted in this thread has been helpful to my original question. All he's done is make a bunch of assumptions. For example- it has not occurred to him that I would have the life experience and the presence of mind to ensure I am able to...

:roll: Thanks for your consistency. You've missed the point of my thread and posted non sequitur repsonses all the way through it. Consistently You finished now? Or is there something else unrelated to my question that you want to put in here?

This has nothing to do with the point at hand. Zero. Nada. If you bothered to actually read this thread, you'd see it begins with me describing something of a mechanical nature; load magazine to capacity, insert magazine into rifle with difficulty, discover compromised cartridge case. Just as...

Well, that clears things up nicely. :D Thanks

:D You may very well be right. Potentially, though, I am one of them. I would dearly love to have an excellent or better condition Southport Mini-14. I appreciate the Mini-14 for what it was intended to be and I have no unreasonable expectations of the rifle. The earliest example I have right...

Yeah, it does seem perhaps that the magazine just need to have the spring loosened up a bit by running rounds through it. A spring with too high tension could cause this behavior. If the spring is pushing up so hard that the rounds do not depress in the magazine when the topmost round of a fully...

One clue about the 10 round Mini magazine might be found in *this thread*, in which the OP is using a 10 round mag and says : Given that Mini magazines must first be locked into the rifle at their forward aspect and then cammed into place, it would be easy to interpret the OP's remarks as...