Just saw a Brand New Mini 14 Factory Folder with 'Side Sling Ring Loop' on Gas Block for $1500

[Actnbill]

I Just saw a Brand New Mini 14 Factory Folder with 'Side Sling Ring Loop' on Gas Block at my Local Gun Store.....( along with flash suppressor and bayonet lug )

It's not a big deal to see a new Mini 14 with a factory folder ( esp. with Samson making them as well )..... but....

It has a front sling loop on the Left Side of the Gas Block....( aka...80's vintage factory folder ) and not on the center of the Gas Block like every other Mini 14

This is a nice homage to the original Mini 14 Factory folders with side sling loops, flash suppressor and bayonet lug..... ( wish I took a picture of it )

 

[rugerguy]

sounds like a return to the original configuration for the factory folders, this was the only way one could tell if it ( the folding stock) actually came from the factory with the sling loop on the side and NOT on the bottom front.....thats good to know

 

[golferboy426]

I Just saw a Brand New Mini 14 Factory Folder with 'Side Sling Ring Loop' on Gas Block at my Local Gun Store.....( along with flash suppressor and bayonet lug )

It's not a big deal to see a new Mini 14 with a factory folder ( esp. with Samson making them as well )..... but....

It has a front sling loop on the Left Side of the Gas Block....( aka...80's vintage factory folder ) and not on the center of the Gas Block like every other Mini 14

This is a nice homage to the original Mini 14 Factory folders with side sling loops, flash suppressor and bayonet lug..... ( wish I took a picture of it )

are you sure it was a new manufacture and NOT new old stock

 

[hittman]

Be nice to know the serial number on that one

 

[NikA]

CDNN is advertising the new GB-like side folders for 1499. Just an FYI, no idea if they've sold out yet.

 

[Busterswoodshop]

CDNN is advertising the new GB-like side folders for 1499. Just an FYI, no idea if they've sold out yet.

They still have them.

 

[Actnbill]

are you sure it was a new manufacture and NOT new old stock

yep.....Brand New....has the new type tapered barrel and not the old pencil type barrel like on my Original 80's folder

To my knowledge, Ruger has never made a newer barrel type Mini 14 with a LH side gas block sling loop before.....only on the old pencil barrels ( till now )

 

[golferboy426]

Probably knocks the crap out of my NIB old ones and my spare correct gas block

 

[Actnbill]

I bet it does as well..... I had 2 NIB stainless but my bro wanted one..... down to one......may have to get one of these new 'period correct' cousins....but $1500 is gonna be a lot to slide past the Warden these days

 

[gunzo]

My how things change. About 1980 a Mini was about half the price of a basic Colt AR. Now, a Mini, the dolled up version is same money as some of the nicer fully optioned AR's available.

Both platforms have been up graded over the years & each have stood the test of time. So much different yet so much alike.

 

[OMCHamlin]

are you sure it was a new manufacture and NOT new old stock

I just wandered into a local gun shop in time to see them take in an old Feather Industries wood folding stock for the Mini 14, which I "think" is a precursor to the factory Ruger folder, AND the installed pistol grip is an old Lone Star Ordnance oversized trap door grip, which are now also sought after. It could use a light refinishing, and would be mine, but I bought a new Samson.

 

[Actnbill]

The Samsons are really nice.....I bought a 'B-team' folder for my stainless 10/22....looks sweet....

The best I can tell is the Samson folder and the Ruger are the same folder.....

( Funny how they are located about 30 minutes away from one another...hmmm )

 

[TINCANBANDIT is back]

Samson makes that gas block cover, it's called the BA Sling Point ( for BA Baracus)

B.A. Sling Point | Gas Block Cap for Mini-14® and Mini Thirty®

Check out the deal on B.A. Sling Point | Gas Block Cap for Mini-14® and Mini Thirty® at Samson Manufacturing

www.samson-mfg.com

 

[TINCANBANDIT is back]

I haven't bought one yet, but I did buy the stock for my 580 series Mini-14

 

[bigbillyboy]

I haven't bought one yet, but I did buy the stock for my 580 series Mini-14

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Very nice

 

[Actnbill]

I checked with Samson....and they only sell the top of the Gas block with a side loop hole on it.....unlike the Original Ruger Folder which has the loop ring hole cast into the LH side of the lower gas block itself..... ( and now Ruger is remaking it the Original way as on the 80's folders ) I don't think Samson will make the lower gas block now that Ruger has reintroduced it on their factory folder Mini's.....

Another bonus of Ruger's new factory folder Mini..... is a picture of a 'Factory 20rd Stainless Magazine' .......

This is Unobtainium ....... I don't think these Ever existed before...... ( though I am thinking they are actually Ruger nickel plated mags )

 

[Pathfinder36]

I bet it does as well..... I had 2 NIB stainless but my bro wanted one..... down to one......may have to get one of these new 'period correct' cousins....but $1500 is gonna be a lot to slide past the Warden these days

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