458 SOCOM Mini 14

A friend of mine who's an apprentice gunsmith is working on converting a Ruger Mini 14 to .458 SOCOM. This clip is a high speed sequence of the gun's first successfull semi automatic load cycle shot at 420fps.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Ruger
• Mini
• 14
• .458
• SOCOM

[youngknight12]

how much did you pay for the gun?

[hpjorgensen]

@youngknight12

The gun isn't mine, it belongs to a friend ogf mine who's in apprenticeship to become a gunsmith. He still isn't satisfied with the final result, so I can't really quote a price on it. BTW, he's done some impressive work on the trigger module as well, and it now breaks crisply at 1560g (about3.5lbs)

[stchman]

That's a 7.62x39 round not a .223.

[hpjorgensen]

@stchman, if you read the description, you'll see it's neither, it's a .458 SOCOM round.

[thepigowner]

that looks like a mini 30

[hpjorgensen]

Well, it says Mini 14 on its receiver...

But as far as I remember, the magazine and maybe the bolt and extractor are modified Mini 30 parts.

BTW he's working on the gas system to make it more flexible with regards to load levels. More videos coming up in the near future, hopefully including testfiring with subsonic loads.

[notlikewithernie]

@KommandoOver9000 Have you ever fired one? They are plenty accurate and completely reliable. I wouldn't classify a Mini 14 as a "shit gun."

[AndreiGrozeaCS]

how expensive it's the .458 round ?

[hondacicle]

this is a ruger ranch rifle derived from a m14 223 about the only difference is the scope mount built into the receiver and the spent cartridges eject out to the side instead of over the top

just built to be more scope friendly

[INbredMonarchy]

@hpjorgensen I've been wanting someone to make a mini 14 in .450 bushmaster. You should run it by him.

[theicedman]

Yeah 420

[KingKoodles]

@HiCapacity From which manufacturer?

[HiCapacity]

@KingKoodles Yea the socom M1A's come in 458 as well.

[KingKoodles]

@HiCapacity "=M14"??? The M14 and its variants do not come chambered in large-bore cartridges.

[HiCapacity]

@KingKoodles =m14

[raginroadrunner]

I carried an M 16 A1 in the Army...never liked it...never felt comfortable with it..years later I bought a Mini 14...and from that day forward I never could understand why the military didn't buy this rifle by the train loads..vastly superior in operation, accuracy and not nearly as hard to keep clean..never..NEVER jams..I would go anywhere with it against any enemy....anytime...Ruger builds the best firearms in the world...I'll argue that till hell freezes!!!

[dfhrandall]

not as cool as the modified m1 my buddy made lol shoots a .338 lapua idk how the fuck he did that