![]() To be fair however, it does put some limits on handguard shape and I can see where Ruger wanted to make a change. It's more secure than the M1 Carbine style clip under the handguard used on the later Minis, and it is more iconic. I also like the M1 and M14 style metal clip over the handguard. The M1 / M1 Carbine style roller-less lug on the later Mini 14s no doubt cost less to produce, but the Mini 14s lost some smoothness and elegance with that change. #XCORE XSCOPE SERIES#The 180 series uses the same gas pipe and slide arrangement as the 181 through 584 series, (which has more in common with the gas tappet and slide system on the M1 Carbine, than it does with the gas cylinder and gas piston operating rod on the M1 or the gas tappet and operating rod on the M14) but retains the roller on the bolt, reminiscent of the M14. The 181 thru 584 slide lock looks better, but it is not nearly as functional. The slide release portion of the arrangement also offers plenty of leverage to press it down and release the slide even with an empty magazine in place. It won't win any beauty contests but you can pull the slide back with your index finger, then reach around the heel with you thumb and depress the slide lock to lock it back - making it a very slick one hand operation, easily done with the rifle on your shoulder and your left hand never leaving the forearm. It's a nice two stage trigger with a sharp break at about 4.5 pounds, no gritty feel, and tolerable over travel. Subjectively speaking the trigger is very nice by Mini 14 standards. Given that it's 20 rounds rapid fire ending with a barrel way too hot to touch, the lack of significant vertical stringing is a very positive sign regarding the stability and proper stress relief of the barrel. However the rest is a combination of low angle light from the right, and some wind from left to right. The group is a bit to the right and it could use another 1/2 MOA left windage. The fliers are due to me and that huge, not well defined and not quite level front blade in about equal measure. The hold was center of mass and the basic group is good. Still, I wanted to check where it was shooting farther down range and put 20 rounds on a plate at 200 yards: #XCORE XSCOPE INSTALL#I suspect the gas port bushing and FH help a bit, but it's still way ahead of where my 184 and 187 Mini 14s were at with the same treatment.Īs such it won't get an Accu Strut but I will install the Choate flash hider and front sight, and thin the front blade slightly to get a NM sight picture. Most of the reviews I have read or seen have suggested the 180 series shot better than the 181 through 196 series. I was very pleased, but not all that surprised. 243 BC, zeroing 2" high at 50 yards brings the rifle back on target at 275 yards.Īt 2 MOA with iron sights, this 180 series Mini 14 is almost as accurate as my fully massaged (Accu Strut gas port bushing, Browning style Choate flash hider/front sight, Tech Sighted, and shock buffered) 184 Mini 14 and 187 Ranch Rifle, both of which shoot 1.5 MOA. The load is my standard more or less M193 clone load, where I use a Hornady 55 gr FMJBT that is closer to the slicker, higher BC "Type B" bullet that Stoner intended, than the "Type A" Remington ultimately used in M193. ![]()
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