Ive got a rugger mini thirty i picked up @ a gun show awhile back. It already came w/ a buttler creek folding stock, and 1 hi cap mag. Ive just added a picatiny(sp?) rail to it a mueller red dot and a sling and some more hi cap mags. Its a good rifle, excelent for hog hunting in my opinion. I was thinking about getting a bull barrel put on it and possibly a tuneable gas block, anyone else got a mini thirty?

 

Have a friend who ownes one...loves it.....uses it for plinking though.....no real mods......trigger and bolt work is all.

 

Thinking of going the other route this winter with an M-4 variant from DPMS, flat top, chrome lined, etc.

 

Ive got a 14 and ill give you my advice.

1. Get all the hi-caps you think youll want for the future. When you reach that...buy more.

2. Dont waste your money on bull barrels, tunable this, and customizable that. The 7.62x39mm is light years from a tack driving cartridge, and the Mini series arent particularly known for being all that accurate. Its a brush gun..dont waste money turning it into something that its not. Take that money and put it towards advice point #1 and ammo.

The BC folders are neat, ive toyed with the idea of installing one. Mine is stock except for an extended recoil pad and a buttload of mags. A red-dot, hogue stock, and a brake are all id ever add to it. Im not much for the "tacti-cool" look hanging lasers and lights and 2 scopes with a bi-pod, vertical foregrip, and a potato peeler all attached to 27 mounted picitanny rails.

just my .02

 

X2 I wouldn't monkey with it too much. Shoot it and have fun. I have heard of some being kindof tightly chambered so if it gives you trouble with the cheapo wolf stuff you know why.
I personally would stay away from surplus ammo in a mini-30 a AK is chambered to fire nearly anything you can fit in the magazine the mini 30 is not.

 

Yeah, my friends is good fun for plinking but a tack driver it is not.

 

Diesel Doc is right about the tight chambering. IIRC they chambered the '30 for a .308 dia bullet. AK's and SKS's are somewhere in the neighborhood of .309-.311.

Before you go lay in a case of Wolf, id try some out to see how your mini likes it. If you want something cheap that will eat anything in that same caliber go buy a Yugo SKS and keep the mini around for shooting the expensive brass cased stuff.

 

I just went and did some measuring out of curiosity. I took a win 7.62x39 and a wolf of same caliber. The only dimension that was the same between the 2 cartridges was the base. I don't know how in the world they set headspace on anything that fires that round.
Find something your rifle likes to shoot and stick with it.
As to the original question. I don't know why anyone would make a bull barrel for that round the balistics are horrible. By the time you get out to a range that a bull would help any the bullet is already dropping like a lead brick.

 

i want to say the company that i looked into that makes the bull barel for it is accuracy systems i think there out of colorado some where. I picked up my rifle at a gun show in missiourii for pretty cheap it already had the folding stock on it and a factory flash hider. Ive only used it for hog hunting, and it does pretty decent, furthest ive got out w/ it is MAYBE 150 yds. I dont mind the 7.62x39 round, what i like most about the rifle is that it will eat wolf ammo brown bear ammo and winchester white box ammo easily. The only mods ive done to it was just the addition of the picitany rail and the mueller red dot. Ill upload a pic of it to my photos here pretty quick.........pic as promised

 

sounds like you got a good one. I was always spooked of them because of the tight chamber issue some had in the past.

 

Glad to hear it will eat the mil-surp stuff. Dont get me wrong, im not knockin them. Like I said, ive got a mini-14 and while the cartridge it fires is alot more accurate, the gun itself isnt. It takes alot of $$ just to get it on par. Im not sure if this will get booted or not but check out perfectunion.com. They have a mini 14/30 section.

 

thanx for the link

 

You will be money ahead to buy an AR than to spend money on a Mini. What was it Obama said about lipstick on a pig?

 

got two ar's a colt chambered in a 7.62x39 and a cmmg lower attached to a preban colt upper and i got two rock river arms lowers one is stripped the other is half way put together