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Western Oregon | The Ruger Mini-12 or Mini-30 is not really the sort of gun you set up with a bipod or sand bag and shoot the heads off crows at 200 yards.
They are the sort of gun you carry with you and you see the crow or coyote or nutria you kick the tractor door open or hop of the four-wheeler, throw the gun up to your shoulder and pull the trigger.
You can blow pop cans 30 ft in the air, explode old gallon paint cans, shoot nutria and raise general mayhem with a Mini-14 and have a lot of fun with the semi-auto. I think the lightness and good feel of a Mini makes up for its lack of accuracy. I think AR's are over rated and way too expensive. Sure you can hang high powered lights and have huge magazines and what ever but they upset my commie relatives and are just to dang spendy.
If you want a really good and accurate gun forget the GI joe guns and get a 700 action in .22-250. Good quality and not so spendy. You really want to bounce a $2000 gun around in your pickup truck?
IMHO...
At one time I had a cheap MAK-90. Now that was a lot of fun. It was not terribly inaccurate. The 7.62x39mm round quality varies quite a bit if your are shooting on the cheap. The gun itself was pretty solid. When you have the safety on and a magazine attached the gun action is pretty much sealed. It bounced around from tractor to pickup for years and then I loaned it to someone and it never came back. I shot quite a few nutria with that gun, fairly close range stuff, not a lot of time to aim. The Mini-30 was nicer but it was more expensive. Seems to be missing as well.
Sort of out of the shooting hobby anymore. | |
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