This weekend a couple buddies came out with their Mini-14s to do a little `plinking'. One of them has an older SS& Synthetic Mini-14 and the other has a new one. The one with the older one was consistantly producing 3/4" patterns at 100yds but the newer one no matter who was shooting was stringing vertically. (We even got out the heavy bench and the sandbags!) While some of the ammo we tried also opened up horizontally the general trend with the newer Mini-14 was towards the vertical stringing. (Tried almost a dozen different loads / brands of ammo thinking that it was just a case of of it being picky. Some of the ammo produced dead centre lines that you could lay a ruler on.) Has there been enough of a decline in QC and general `quality' in the time between the introduction of the Mini-14 and now that this is something common? Or do we have a problem with the bedding or something else?
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Doleo ergo sum,
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Doleo ergo sum,
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