I have an early .308 with wood furniture. Accuracy with Yugo milsurp corrosive brass ammo is "meh." Reliability is 100% with the Ruger 5 round mags.
Tech Sights makes a couple different setups for -14 & -30. I have a Ghost Ring on mine. Will probably go with a proper .mil style aperture later.
Since 20 rounders are far too evil & dangerous for us peasants in Kalifornistan I'm stuck with 5 rounders or aftermarket mags that do not work. It is possible to pin the 20 rounders to 10 rounds but the problem is getting the rebuild kits, ie, magazines that have been disassembled to a box of parts. Thos are legal to import. But that is a Kalifornistan problem. No problem in the Free States. Yet.
Ruger recommends against using steel case ammo. Supposedly the hard primers will cause either misfires or broken firing pins. Then again lots of guys report running thousands of rounds with no issue. The downside is that if you break a FP Ruger won't sell you a new one. You have to send them THE WHOLE RIFLE! I've seen the theory put forward that Ruger deliberately sets the firing pin on the short side so owners will be forced to use commercial (read expen$ive) brass ammo. The bandaid is a heavier trigger spring. I see that as an invitation to the broken FP. There is an aftermarket FP available but reports are that quality is "iffy."
All in all, I "like" my Mini-30. If Ruger would make 10 round magazines for it I would probably "love" it. Converting a 20 rd mag to 10 rd isn't all that hard. Somebody should be doing it. Or even making a 10 rd magazine that actually works. They don't need to be $10 pieces of junk from China, either. We WILL pay for them if they work.
You can call the .223 anything you like. No matter how you spin it the 5.56 is still a .22.
Oh yeah... if you're thinking of reloading that expensive boxer primed brass you obviously have never seen how far a Mini-30 throws those empties!
But you can get an adjustable gas block if you like...
