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Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: Missing on March 29, 2010, 09:58:51 PM

Title: mini 14 question
Post by: Missing on March 29, 2010, 09:58:51 PM: I have been reading on accuracy for the mini and I have read that if you shorten the barrel and add weight (muzzle brake) to the barrel that it will help improve accuracy quite a bit. does this sound like it will work? Before everyone tells me to throw it away and buy an AR I already own it and if I can get it to a 2" group I would be really happy, it shoots about a 4-5" group now. Thanks in advance for any advice.
Title: Re: mini 14 question
Post by: chrisb on March 29, 2010, 10:01:53 PM: i could see gaining accuracy from the weight especially on wuick follow up shots.... but the barrel shortening? dunno about that one.
Title: Re: mini 14 question
Post by: jackelope on March 29, 2010, 10:37:48 PM: look at a piece called an accustrut http://www.accu-strut.com/pages/gallery_01.htmL for the barrel and then look at the forums at http://www.perfectunion.com/vb/ (http://www.perfectunion.com/vb/)

you'll learn a lot on the mini-14.
Title: Re: mini 14 question
Post by: fisheral87 on March 31, 2010, 08:22:33 AM: How bout this. Don't buy an AR. Stick with the mini. Those things rock. The AR is an impressive system, not the only system.

:twocents:

Hope you find a solution.

Al
Title: Re: mini 14 question
Post by: Missing on March 31, 2010, 08:24:28 PM: Thanks Guys,

Jackelope that Perfect Union website is great, it has all the information that I need.
Title: Re: mini 14 question
Post by: ADAMS on March 31, 2010, 08:48:17 PM: The new Mini-14's, from 2008 forward, have much thicker barrels. They are no longer produced with the pencil barrels.

This is supposed to have helped with accuracy. Barrels actually make a slight whipping or wave motion as the bullet travels down the barrel. The newer barrels are mucher stiffer.