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1944 M1 Garand vs 2022 Ruger Mini 14

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HoosierBuddy
Found time tonight to take my new rifle apart, get it cleaned up and lubricated and ready for the range. Kind of made me nostalgic for my old buddy Mr. M1. I just need an M1A to put between them now.
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Lexie__M
The Mini-14 was a scaled down copy of the M1 Garand and that is why it worked so well.
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BloodyThumb
The mini was the very first center fire rifle I ever purchased. I had a couple bolt gun handed down from family, but I bought the mini just before going off to college... imagine that.

It is gone, but I still have one very nice Garand left.
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Lexie__M said:
The Mini-14 was a scaled down copy of the M1 Garand and that is why it worked so well.
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Uger Mini's are re-designed M1 Carbines,as not to infringe on copyrights & patents as per any Sturm Ruger firearm.

The M1 Garand is op rod system...not a piston system...aka Carbine/Uger Mini's.
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jthrelf
Nice looking rifles! Can't beat an M1...
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Willard
The Mini 14 is more a miniaturized clone of the M14, than any similarity to the M1 Rifle. While maybe closer to the M1 Carbine.

The manual of arms being more consistent with the M14. My initial service rifle, years ago, was the M14, a reason I have a M1A. I was drawn years ago, to the Mini 14, just because of that reason. If not for the cost of reliable magazines, years ago, since anything other than Ruger, was suspect.

I went with my "other" Service Rifle clone, the AR, since USGI Magazines were reliable, and plentiful!

Also keeping up with rifling twist rates on Mini 14s can be confusing. What is the twist rate of your 2022 version?

While many want the faster twist rates, to use heavier projectiles, when used with imperfectly balanced cheaper lighter weight projectiles, accuracy tends to suffer.
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BloodyThumb said:
The mini was the very first center fire rifle I ever purchased. I had a couple bolt gun handed down from family, but I bought the mini just before going off to college... imagine that.

It is gone, but I still have one very nice Garand left.
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Me too. Paid $190 for the Mini-14 "ranch rifle" in 1986. Put a folding stock on it ($15 at the gun show),
30 round magazine and a flash hider. During the 1989 "assault weapons ban" I sold it for $800.
Crazy.

I'm no so sure that Ruger quality is still there though. Bought a 10-22 for my boys about
10 years ago. It was pretty cheesy. The again, apples to oranges.
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Willard said:
Also keeping up with rifling twist rates on Mini 14s can be confusing. What is the twist rate of your 2022 version?

While many want the faster twist rates, to use heavier projectiles, when used with imperfectly balanced cheaper lighter weight projectiles, accuracy tends to suffer.
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1:9” RH

My take on the accuracy debate on AR vs Mini: If fired without a bench rest and using iron sights, the better shooter will get the best grouping regardless of which rifle you hand him or her. Second thought: it’s not that a mini is “inaccurate”, it’s more that the AR is excellent in that area. As far as magazines….I bought an extra 20 and a 30 so far…both a Ruger brand. They weren’t super expensive. I’ll buy a couple of more 20’s and that’s all I’ll probably ever need.
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Speedwobble
One of my absolute dream guns, a wartime Garand.
A really nice one is hard to get here in the Netherlands.
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HoosierBuddy said:
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My take on the accuracy debate on AR vs Mini: If fired without a bench rest and using iron sights, the better shooter will get the best grouping regardless of which rifle you hand him or her. Second thought: it’s not that a mini is “inaccurate”, it’s more that the AR is excellent in that area. As far as magazines….I bought an extra 20 and a 30 so far…both a Ruger brand. They weren’t super expensive. I’ll buy a couple of more 20’s and that’s all I’ll probably ever need.
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I was referencing magazines close to 40 years ago, and 1 in 9" twist works great with general 55 grain fodder..
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