In addition, the A-Team carried Mini's. Their experience matched mine in that they were very inaccurate. They never could hit anybody!

I have a Mini-14 Ranch Rifle, and find it to be plenty accurate for it's intended purpose of varmint control.

If it was a documentary made by New Dominion Pictures, it may have been a re-enactment using whatever weapons they had laying around, weapons not meant to be period accurate.

They do a lot of picture shooting in the Norfolk/Virginia Beach area of Virginia, the City of Virginia Beach helps them out with police cars and officers a lot.

I've seen a lot of thier documentarys where the bad guy is toting a Daisy BB gun that looks like a 1911 pistol, others where SWAT teams are armed with SKS's, that sort of thing. I enjoy watching thier shows to catch the gun in-accuracies.

Here's a link to their web-site:

New Dominion Pictures / Home

The Mini was introduced in 74 and Vietnam was about over by then.

The factory Mini14 folding stock looks "sort of" like an underfolder, though it folds to the side. The Mini14 actually was in U.S. inventory for a while. Marine guards at Embassies had them. Saw photos of them in the arms rooms, etc. No, I don't know why they had them either. I think DSS also had them. I suppose that it is possible that if a Naval Special Warfare team was training with embassy folks one might have been used. Or it could have been used for training since a wide variety of domestic and foreign small arms were, and are, fired for training and familiarization.

Supposedly a few may have been used in South and Central America during the 1980s - commercial availability making them deniable presumably.

I bought a used SS Mini in @ '93. Original box and came with a Fed. Ord. underfolder wood/steel stock. I sold the underfolder stock for more than I paid for the package.
Still have the Mini. Max is correct, no Ruger Mini's in Nam.

I don't have the book at hand, but Dick Marcinko's autobiography mentions the formation of SEAL Team 6 and lists some of the hardware he wanted. Pretty sure he made specific reference to ordering - and getting - a case of stainless Mini-14s.

I'll have to dig it up and see if I can find that part.

So do I. I've had an SS Mini since the mid 80's and it's always hit anything I've aimed at. Accuracy issues? Like any other firearm, it's always the gun, never the guy behind the sights.

As soon as they first came out way back then I bought a SS Mini. I found a under folder stock for it and it stayed dressed that way for a while. (Stock had a wood pistol grip with a skeleton type under folder; do not remember who made this stock.)

After a few years I redressed it in its original stock and still have the weapon today. Sold the folder long ago.

As long as does not have a pistol grip stock or other verboten features or larger than 10 round mags are available for this gun it passes muster with NY now infamous "Safe Act"

I have a reasonably accurate carbine, but I have seen some that were not near as accurate as mine. It shoots anything I put through it including many different combination of hand loads I was working up.

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