Yeah. Uhm….so that happened:
I’ll be phasing out a couple of P95’s in favor of these p95DC’s. I’ve never really seen the need for a manual safety on a double-action auto. The pistols were a case of heading to Gunbroker and thinking “Ahhh….this low bid will never win. Someone will bid it up.” Idiot.
The Mini-14? Uhm…well…see, it’s like this…it was one of those deals that you would have had to have been an idiot to pass up. Seriously. It was a good deal. Note that the Mini has one of the extremely hard-to-find Eagle 35-round polymags. This was, IMHO, hands-down the best aftermarket mag for the Mini and as best I can tell they havent been made since the early 90’s. I have some of the AR versions, but the Mini versions are tough to find. People hold onto those things with both hands.
Today was a stainless kinda day.
The fella I got the Mini from brought that mag along to show me and let me hold onto for a few days so I could blog about it. It’s a little esoteric (well, a lot esoteric, actually) to write a post about a magazine that hasn’t been available for twenty years, but….
Now you just need B.A. and the van, and you’re all set.
I love it when a plan comes together!
Please buy controlling stock in Ruger and make them produce new versions of the classic GB folding stock. I don’t mean with fancy new improvements, I mean an exact copy of the old A-Team one. I really want one for my Mini but the prices are nuts. So, do us all a solid and just admit that you have a Ruger problem and deal with it by buying the company.
If I had won that lottery a few weeks back for a billion dollars I was planning on buying several gun companies and a chunk of Wyoming.
Ahhhh… Lottery dreams, good stuff.
I have one of those Stainless underfolding Mini’s… used to be great. But something has happened to my two examples… after two shots either the trigger guard has come unlocked or the entire trigger group drops into my hand.
Seems the locks (after the 30 years I’ve had them) are not engaging the receiver like they used too. Dunno if I should try to weld a new bead of metal on there or simply have a local GS try to figure something out.
Anyone else had this problem? Saw it happen once on a well used Garand, never found out if the owner fixed it.
Why would you not have Ruger deal with it?
On a Garand, it’s because the catch on the forged trigger guard has worn away to a nub from endless disassembly/reassembly.
As the happy owner of a 5-digit serial # pre-war production M1, ask me how I know.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Ruger, sharing the same design, also shares that flaw.
You might try a Promag steel 20 rounder. They have been perfect in the wife’s 187 except for one out of the 18. Sent it back and they replaced it. Now have 18 out of 18 working without a failure. Word is the Ruger factory are not so great anymore. Beancounters are a plague.