In the past six months, two of the "Mini Thirty guys" I know have bought .350 Legend uppers... it will be interesting for me to see how this shakes out.Originally Posted by Suvorov
In the past six months, two of the "Mini Thirty guys" I know have bought .350 Legend uppers... it will be interesting for me to see how this shakes out.
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I have both. The Mini is very much like an M-1 carbine. Been through both to replace parts so have some idea how they work. They both have the same basic design as the M-1 Garand and M-14 which is a gas piston/op rod that operates the bolt. If I'm not mistaken it's very much like an AK-47 also.
I'll take my Mini-14 for self defense. It's more reliable and I like the .223 cartridge better. Otherwise the M-1 carbine is lighter and has way more appeal for those interested in military history.
In the P-F basket of deplorables.
Longer.
Back in the day, it was well known commercial made M1 Carbines were problematic, particularly Universal. I'm not surprised your grandfather's carbine was such a disappointment.My only experience with an M1 Carbine was a mid-60s commercial POS that my Grandfather kept loaded by his chair for years. Fortunately he never had to use it because I don't think it ever fired more than 3 rounds in a row regardless of the magazine used. It's the only one of his guns I inherited that I've gotten rid of and I couldn't get rid of fast enough. I would have traded it for a Mini-30 in a heartbeat!
The carbine I traded for back in 2001 was GI. I put a few rounds through the Mini30, a couple of hundred I think and it never malfunctioned. It was accurate enough to be entertaining although I never had high expectations, shooting steel cased whatever.
The M1 was fun to shoot, but ammo has gotten crazy expensive, especially compared to the cheap surplus ammo we used to get in the 70s 80s and 90s. I'd still have that carbine, but it made a fine Christmas present for my son. The M1 Carbine I have now was my Uncle's.
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Actual American made ammo or just brass cased ammo? I didn’t think American made 7.62x39 started showing up until the early to mid-00s but brass case Yugo x39 was available before that.
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Especially when I’ve already got 2-3 cases of it. If this Mini and I get along a 30 will move up the list.
I’m intrigued by the Legend but can’t quite justify the cost of admission when all I hunt is paper and steel. Doesn’t mean I won’t end up there eventually.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits - Mark Twain
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy / Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
We used a Black Hills soft point load and a 125 grain JHP from Cor-bon as duty loads and I believe a lot of Winchester USA training ammo. Sometimes we had foreign made training ammo depending upon availability. Sometimes the guns would not set off the primers-I don’t remember the US made ammo having that issue.
Thanks, I didn’t realize US made x39 was that widely available in the 90s/early-00s.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits - Mark Twain
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy / Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
I had Federal 7.62x39 ammo in the early 90s.
125 grain, soft points
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I've run a few thousand rounds through my Mini-14 without any hiccups. No failure to feed or eject so far and all the ammo was hand loaded using various brands of range brass. They just aren't particular about ammo. In the beginning I experimented with different loads and certain brass to see if I could get some tighter groups. I soon gave up as it didn't seem to matter. 2-3 MOA was all I could ever wring out of it. I did however torque the gas block screws to 25 lbs and it shoots 1-2 MOA now. What more does one need a carbine to do? I think it's a lot better than an AK-47 from what I've seen but I've never owned one.
In the P-F basket of deplorables.
A good AK with an optic and good ammo will shoot 2-3 moa. They are a lot more accurate than most people think.
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