Teddydogno1
Single-Sixer
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- May 10, 2013
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Last week I purchased a like new older stainless Mini-30 rifle. It arrived at my dealer the other day and it is as good looking in person as in the pictures. Too bad it has to stay in "gun jail" for 10 business days due to Washington's stupid "Semi-automatic rifle" law. The rifle also came with a contemporary Action Arms scope of some type that I have not had a change to examine or research yet. The factory scope rings are in the box.
Here's one of the seller's pics as I don't have any of my own yet.
The rifle came with just the original 5 round magazine, but I was able to secure some Ruger 20 and 10 round mags before our even more stupid magazine restriction went into effect on July 1.
I remember back when we were all waiting for Ruger to release the "XGI" rifle in .308. Then the ads disappeared from the gun mags and the project was dead. As I recall, not too long after that they released the Mini-Thirty instead. I have owned a couple of Mini-14 rifles over the years, but never kept one very long. This is my first -30.
I read a copy of the manual online and it says to use US-spec ammo and says not to use corrosive foreign ammo. But I don't think it said anything specifically about not using steel case ammo. That said, I remember hearing back when these first came out that Ruger used .308 bores in the the barrels and standard .311 bulleted ammo was not a good idea. Is this correct/accurate? Or old-timey false lore from the days before the 1994 AWB? I have plenty of Wolf, Tula and other steel cased non-corrosive and quite a bit of Fiocchi, Igman and Norma brass cased, but I don't think anything I have has .308 bullets. Since getting the rifle, I have ready lots of Internet chatter that guys shoot everything in theirs. Does the early age of this rifle change anything?
Anyway...just wanted to share my new pickup and see if there is any truth to needing to be careful what I feed it (will it turn into a monster if I shoot it after midnight?). Or anything in particular I should know about this almost 30 year old new rifle. Any and all comments are welcome.
Rob
Here's one of the seller's pics as I don't have any of my own yet.
The rifle came with just the original 5 round magazine, but I was able to secure some Ruger 20 and 10 round mags before our even more stupid magazine restriction went into effect on July 1.
I remember back when we were all waiting for Ruger to release the "XGI" rifle in .308. Then the ads disappeared from the gun mags and the project was dead. As I recall, not too long after that they released the Mini-Thirty instead. I have owned a couple of Mini-14 rifles over the years, but never kept one very long. This is my first -30.
I read a copy of the manual online and it says to use US-spec ammo and says not to use corrosive foreign ammo. But I don't think it said anything specifically about not using steel case ammo. That said, I remember hearing back when these first came out that Ruger used .308 bores in the the barrels and standard .311 bulleted ammo was not a good idea. Is this correct/accurate? Or old-timey false lore from the days before the 1994 AWB? I have plenty of Wolf, Tula and other steel cased non-corrosive and quite a bit of Fiocchi, Igman and Norma brass cased, but I don't think anything I have has .308 bullets. Since getting the rifle, I have ready lots of Internet chatter that guys shoot everything in theirs. Does the early age of this rifle change anything?
Anyway...just wanted to share my new pickup and see if there is any truth to needing to be careful what I feed it (will it turn into a monster if I shoot it after midnight?). Or anything in particular I should know about this almost 30 year old new rifle. Any and all comments are welcome.
Rob