Mini 14 Accu-Strut

[gregintenn]

Anybody have one of these? If so, did you find am accuracy improvement?

[MacGyver]

I knew someone who had something similar - I'm not sure if it was this one exactly.  It changed the pattern of the shot stringing as the barrel heated up.  I wouldn't say it improved accuracy much.

This was on one of the old straight barreled ones - not one of the newer tapered barrels.

At the end of the day, you're changing the barrel harmonics - but I don't think that's really correcting the problem inherent with those barrels getting hot.

[mikegideon]

I had one on my late vintage Mini. It improved accuracy some. It does much better on the older pencil barrels. I took mine off just to reduce weight. My mini is bone stock with iron sights. Good skunk rifle.

I had Gun Doc do my trigger. He was the Mini guru at the time. The gun can be accurized, but not a cheap process. I decided to just love the mini for what it is, and get high accuracy from a better platform.

Here's a bunch of the stuff. Looks like he gave up his web site and put everything on Facebook...

https://www.facebook.com/watch/TheGunDoc/

Edited March 22, 2021 by mikegideon

[gregintenn]

I got the trigger in good shape. I'm just struggling to get anything resembling accuracy. You're probably right, Mike. I just need to take it for what it is rather than throwing a bunch of money at it.

[xtriggerman]

I had a guy come in once and wanted me to throw the kitchen sink at a newer Stainless mini. He bought the (smaller) port bushing kit and strut and was still in the 2+ inch area with his reloads.  I cant find the pictures of my mods but it was a 3 item attack on the way the metal vibrates in the synthetic stock he bought for it. I milled a vertical shoulder to the very back edge of the receiver and bored a hole directly under it on that shelf on the stock. Made a 1" pin that went into the hole and milled a 90% L shaped recoil face into that pin. Epoxied the pin in place. The very rear of the receiver now had a sold steel footing and recoil shoulder in one. Then the front of the receiver gets a horse shoe shaped aluminum pillar glassed into the stock that touches on the left and right of the front leading edges of the receiver. Now the receiver has a 3 point metal bed. The trigger housing frame is bedded also and every thing made to be rock solid once the guard is snapped in to lock up. Then the for end tip get a spring loaded bedding under the tip ferule that puts constant tension on the gas block in a push forward manner that helps with heat expansion that makes the barrel longer with heat up.  Now I never saw the actual results of all this one of a kind bedding on his mini but he claimed he was getting 7/8ths inch groups 100y with it off his reloads. And from the way he told it, I would tend to believe a guy that sounded happier than a pig in s**t!  So I would say a mini can be made to shoot relatively well if you have an extra sink laying around

[gregintenn]

8 hours ago, xtriggerman said:

I had a guy come in once and wanted me to throw the kitchen sink at a newer Stainless mini. He bought the (smaller) port bushing kit and strut and was still in the 2+ inch area with his reloads.  I cant find the pictures of my mods but it was a 3 item attack on the way the metal vibrates in the synthetic stock he bought for it. I milled a vertical shoulder to the very back edge of the receiver and bored a hole directly under it on that shelf on the stock. Made a 1" pin that went into the hole and milled a 90% L shaped recoil face into that pin. Epoxied the pin in place. The very rear of the receiver now had a sold steel footing and recoil shoulder in one. Then the front of the receiver gets a horse shoe shaped aluminum pillar glassed into the stock that touches on the left and right of the front leading edges of the receiver. Now the receiver has a 3 point metal bed. The trigger housing frame is bedded also and every thing made to be rock solid once the guard is snapped in to lock up. Then the for end tip get a spring loaded bedding under the tip ferule that puts constant tension on the gas block in a push forward manner that helps with heat expansion that makes the barrel longer with heat up.  Now I never saw the actual results of all this one of a kind bedding on his mini but he claimed he was getting 7/8ths inch groups 100y with it off his reloads. And from the way he told it, I would tend to believe a guy that sounded happier than a pig in s**t!  So I would say a mini can be made to shoot relatively well if you have an extra sink laying around

Interesting.