PMCI - September 2021
It's been another hard slog for the PMCI crew this time, as curbs on international travel continue to curb our ability to actually get together but as usual, Bill and Trampas have pulled yet another great issue out of the (drag!) bag - and it's a very special one that headlines with a "Dream Rifle Build" that replicates the iconic Ruger Mini 14 as used by "Hannibal and the Team"... We do love it when a plan comes together! We're also joined again by Jim W, who brings a deep-dive insight into the world of profiling and we look in detail at what some of our favourite manufacturers have been up to, landing our test reports in full! All in all, it may have taken just a bit more time, and some serious "logistics juggling" to get this issue together but we hope you'll agree it's been worth the wait!
It's been another hard slog for the PMCI crew this time, as curbs on international travel continue to curb our ability to actually get together but as usual, Bill and Trampas have pulled yet another great issue out of the (drag!) bag - and it's a very special one that headlines with a "Dream Rifle Build" that replicates the iconic Ruger Mini 14 as used by "Hannibal and the Team"... We do love it when a plan comes together!
We're also joined again by Jim W, who brings a deep-dive insight into the world of profiling and we look in detail at what some of our favourite manufacturers have been up to, landing our test reports in full!
All in all, it may have taken just a bit more time, and some serious "logistics juggling" to get this issue together but we hope you'll agree it's been worth the wait!
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6SAMSON / RUGER ATM MINI 14 STOCK
was my first option. I packed up the Mini 14 and headed over
to see my buddy, Bill Biggert, the manager over at Bullseye
Guns of Jacksonville. The fact that Bill is a huge fan of 80’s action
movies and television shows like me was a huge plus. I knew he
would appreciate seeing the Mini 14 A-TM in the shop.
Once on the range, I benched the rifle on a pair of sandbags
for sighting in. To speed things up and save on ammo, I used a
drop-in laser bore sighter from Cabela’s to quickly get the rifle
sights on paper. Surprisingly, the sights were almost dead on
with the laser bore sight dot on the target, coming in about 3”
high at the six o’ clock position at 25 yards. Afterwards, it was
time to load up the factory 20 round magazines and get some
rounds downrange.
Although the folding stock was not adjustable for length,
it offered a very user friendly 13.5” length of pull (LOP). I was
able to get a surprisingly comfortable cheek weld on stock to
line up with the rifle’s peep sights. As I squeezed off the first
three shots, I noticed the angle change on the trigger pull due to
the pistol grip on the stock made the trigger feel lighter than in
the previous traditional rifle stock. I liked the control and recoil
mitigation the A-TM offered as well despite the minimalistic
buttstock.
Folding the stock was a simple matter of pressing a button
on the back of the buttstock and another where the hinge joint
mounts to the wood furniture as it closes to the right side. A
small anchor point protruding from the side of the stock allows
a notch in the buttstock to clamp the assembly firmly into place.
As per the TV show, the stock allows for firing the rifle from the
closed position. While doing so, shooting the rifle as if its and
oversized handgun feels like wearing one snowshoe
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