CoalCrackerAl
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If the reduced loads still hit the scope turret. Im going to change the scope. To a UTG. It has hold over marks up and down and right and left. And set it on. With the elevation on top and the wind age turret on the left side.
Meh when the minis were 2-300 and the ARs were 1000 minis had a draw for the economy. Likewise the X39 doesn't have the economic advantage it once did.Your missing out if you don't have both. My favorites right now. Handloading on my turret press mostly.
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What good readingI didn't buy a Mini-30 in 1989 because I couldn't afford an AR. I wouldn't have kept my Mini-30 all these years (35 years) if it was a poor performer. It doesn't sit in my gun safe. It's one of my favorite guns to shoot.
Here's a helpful tip to help make these discussions potentially more productive. I say potentially because it depends on the participants. You may have graduated at the bottom of your class (like Joe Biden did) or not graduated at all. I can't help people like that. I can try to tell people that there's an entire cult of Mini-30 owners who have been getting excellent results with the Mini-30 for decades. But it can be like trying to talk to Joe Biden. There's nothing there except an old broken down brain that's shrinking by the hour.
But anyway, try to remember that a Mini-30 is not a Mini-14 in caliber 5.56. Experience with the Mini-14 doesn't inform us about the performance of the Mini-30 beyond it's basic platform and operation. It's kind of like how an AK-47 is not an AK-74, and yet it looks a lot like one.
I'm not adding anything else until the OP let's us know he's still alive. Funny how, especially on THR, Mini-30 threads are among the most contentious of all. It's gotten to the point where I'm suspect of anyone who starts one. I've observed too many people start the conversation and then sit back and quietly watch the fireworks for entertainment. They can count on their fellow forum members having the same conversations over and over for years, seeing the thread locked, and watching everyone walk away with their misconceptions fully intact. Well, at least they can count on something. We all need something we can count on. In some ways maybe threads like these are like emotional support animals.
I am alive and well.I didn't buy a Mini-30 in 1989 because I couldn't afford an AR. I wouldn't have kept my Mini-30 all these years (35 years) if it was a poor performer. It doesn't sit in my gun safe. It's one of my favorite guns to shoot.
Here's a helpful tip to help make these discussions potentially more productive. I say potentially because it depends on the participants. You may have graduated at the bottom of your class (like Joe Biden did) or not graduated at all. I can't help people like that. I can try to tell people that there's an entire cult of Mini-30 owners who have been getting excellent results with the Mini-30 for decades. But it can be like trying to talk to Joe Biden. There's nothing there except an old broken down brain that's shrinking by the hour.
But anyway, try to remember that a Mini-30 is not a Mini-14 in caliber 5.56. Experience with the Mini-14 doesn't inform us about the performance of the Mini-30 beyond it's basic platform and operation. It's kind of like how an AK-47 is not an AK-74, and yet it looks a lot like one.
I'm not adding anything else until the OP let's us know he's still alive. Funny how, especially on THR, Mini-30 threads are among the most contentious of all. It's gotten to the point where I'm suspect of anyone who starts one. I've observed too many people start the conversation and then sit back and quietly watch the fireworks for entertainment. They can count on their fellow forum members having the same conversations over and over for years, seeing the thread locked, and watching everyone walk away with their misconceptions fully intact. Well, at least they can count on something. We all need something we can count on. In some ways maybe threads like these are like emotional support animals.
I was, at one time, a big fan of the Minis, especially the 30. X39 ammo was around $100 for a case of 1440 rounds and the rifles were dirt cheap compared to an AR. These days, the mini just doesn't make any sense. The rifle is expensive, mags are expensive and the ammo is expensive. If you just want to shoot x39, check out the Ruger American Ranch. Mine shoots right at MOA out to 300 with Wolf HP ammo and I've rang steel with it far past 300.
I think that if you want a short to medium range .30 cal, consider 300 Blackout. Ammo cost is about the same and you have a broader selection of ammo with the BO. Since all of the decent x39 ammo has dried up and what is available has gotten so expensive, I've rebarreled my x39 AR to 300 BO and when I run out of my stock of x39 ammo, I'll be getting a bolt gun in 300 BO as well.
Of course, if you want the Mini 30 just because, go ahead and get it. You only live once and you can't take it with you. It's a fun little rifle.
What? Over the past few decades, the price of the minis has done nothing but go up and you can't just blame the value of the dollar going down. The price of ARs has declined substantially over the past few decades despite the value of the dollar going down.Careful, you're not looking past the end of your nose, and your doing it in front of God and everybody... a permanent record. Well, that is as long as this forum exists, and/or as long as the Internet Archive Wayback Machine exists.
Prices and availability of guns and ammo have gone up and down many times since I've been alive, and just in the 35 years I've owned my Mini-30. History tells us availability comes back up and prices come back down for long periods of time.
There might be some members too young to remember the ammo shortage and high prices of 2012, which turned the ammo overabundance and low prices of 2014 to 2020. But like I always say, sometimes I feel like I'm surrounded by people to young too know and people so old they've forgotten.
Nope, before the pandemic panicked everyone, the price of a Mini-30 was well within reasonable... perfectly inline with inflation. I can't help you. At this point you'd have to pay me as a private tutor. But let's not. Too much work for a volunteer forum.What? Over the past few decades, the price of the minis has done nothing but go up and you can't just blame the value of the dollar going down. The price of ARs has declined substantially over the past few decades despite the value of the dollar going down.
5.56 ammo is never going back to .30 a round for m193, x39 is never going back to .20 a round. As for 300BO, the price is going to decline and come into line with the cost of similar ammo, as it gains popularity. Just a couple of years ago, 300BO was over $1 a round for ball. Now, you can get stuff like Sabre Blade and VMax for .65 and .80 a round respectively.
If steel case x39 does become available again, I doubt that it will go below .50 a round. I really hope I'm wrong, but it's what the trends have shown.
nice.I got the mini 30 zeroed the best i could. The rail and higher rings stopped the brass from hitting the scope. I need to break my habit of horizontal stringing. Other than that here is my 5 shot 100 yard group.
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