Ruger "The A-Team" Commemorative Mini 14

[Balrog]

I wish Ruger would make a Ruger Mini 14 with the old style folding wood stock like on the old GB models. Similar to what they used on the A Team in the 80s but without the full auto of course. The old folding wood stock looks so much better on a Mini than the AR style collapsible stock I see.

What do yall think? Why doesnt Ruger go back to the wood folder?

 

[taliv]

Either wood is expensive or they don't want to remind people that they fired millions of rounds in the show and never hit a thing!

 

[Sun Tzu warrior]

Yep! It's hard to hit anything with blanks!
I agree with the OP, have 2 factory folders they look great, and very compact. (folded)
On independence day, I was consistantly hitting a 300 yard 18" gong. When my eyes were young I was hitting beer cans at that range floating down the river.
(with stock rifles)
If you can't hit with a Mini-14, change it's diet, they don't work well with mil-surp.

 

[mtrmn]

The A Team model would have to only be capable of firing ammo that throws sparks on impact and will not penetrate a standard 55 gal drum....

 

[blahpony]

If it was a true A-Team rifle, you would hit every target except your own.

 

[armoredman]

There are a LOT of people who grew up watching the A-Team who would probably buy this. Make it with the heavier modern profile barrel and a subdued "A-team" logo on the stock somewhere. Make one version with gold eagles in the stock, the Geo. Peppard memorial version.
Yes, it would sell as a commemorative, but make the base model usable, not overlaid with filagree and engraving that makes it something nobody wants to shoot, just a stailess setup with that cool original stock.
Wonder what happened to all those AC-556 rifles they used on the show, anyway?

 

[Mohave-Tec]

"Either wood is expensive or they don't want to remind people that they fired millions of rounds in the show and never hit a thing!"

No you didn't.

 

[greyling22]

Yep! It's hard to hit anything with blanks!
I agree with the OP, have 2 factory folders they look great, and very compact. (folded)
On independence day, I was consistantly hitting a 300 yard 18" gong. When my eyes were young I was hitting beer cans at that range floating down the river.
(with stock rifles)
If you can't hit with a Mini-14, change it's diet, they don't work well with mil-surp.

Sun Tzu, surely you don't mean to imply that you were hitting a moving beer can at 300 yds with irons on a mini. If so, I call BS

 

[rcmodel]

Here's mine with the old Federal Ordnance under-folder stock on it.





rc

 

[marsofold]

RC, my Federal Ordinance underfolder seems much lighter in color than yours. I have wondered whether it was ever varnished or stained at all or if I'm just looking at polished bare wood on mine. Did they ever come unfinished from the factory?

 

[jmorris]

I pity the fool...I have a 10/22 stock like the last one. The guy that designed them must only use 10 round mags.

Really what sense does it make to unload the firearm to deploy the stock for use?

Side folders are more usefull.

 

[Oceanbob]

Those folding wood stocks are valuable. (Ruger).

In California we had to remove the stock because it was too short when folded. I bought a butler creek stock for my mini and just stored the new wood folder.

I recently sold that empty folding stock for $600 bucks.

This one:

 

[RCArms.com]

Sun Tzu, surely you don't mean to imply that you were hitting a moving beer can at 300 yds with irons on a mini. If so, I call BS

Not to mention the poor folks on the other side of the river for several hundred yards in the impact zone of the projectioes that ricocheted off the surface of the river because of the shallow angle of impact at 300 yards.

 

[rcmodel]

RC, my Federal Ordinance underfolder seems much lighter in color than yours. I have wondered whether it was ever varnished or stained at all or if I'm just looking at polished bare wood on mine.

I don't know that I ever saw one for a 10/22 before.

The one like mine for the Mini-14 came as shown with a military oil finish and plastic M-16 pistol grip.

Yours is most certainly finished with something to get that hi-gloss look.

rc

 

[Sun Tzu warrior]

Greyling call it whatever you want..... I have plenty of witnesses that will call it true.
Also if you care to make the trip to Mississippi, I betcha $ or guns, I can still do it!

RC, there is nothing but timber for at least ten miles, on the other side of the river, also unless the river is extremely high the angle is pretty steep from where the shooting was done.

 

[RCArms.com]

Greyling call it whatever you want..... I have plenty of witnesses that will call it true.
Also if you care to make the trip to Mississippi, I betcha $ or guns, I can still do it!

RC, there is nothing but timber for at least ten miles, on the other side of the river, also unless the river is extremely high the angle is pretty steep from where the shooting was done.

Good to hear that you accounted for the projectiles after they left the muzzle and had direct physical control of the impact zone.

Can't be too careful these days, specially with all the sue happy folks it there.

 

[Sun Tzu warrior]

Yes Sir RC! I am always mindful of what is behind my target, not because of torts, but because I wouldn't want to harm persons or property! This was the first thing about shooting that dear ol' dad taught me. The outside curve of the river provides a nice overlooking bluff to shoot from.

 

[Dr.Rob]

Hannibal sometimes even aimed:

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=190571

I have the right flash hider, but I haven't seen one of those stocks in a long while.

 

[stubbicatt]

I remember that silly show! Howling Mad Murdock! LOL.

 

[mac66]

On one hand an A Team Commemorative would be kinda cool. On the other hand, the A Team and similar shows portrayed firearms use in a reckless and unsafe manner. The TV and Movies are part of the reasons why "assault rifles" are so named and maligned by our society.

I wonder if a an A Team model would come with unlimited ammo that you never have to reload like in the show?

 

[smoakingun]

they don't want to remind people that they fired millions of rounds in the show and never hit a thing!

Whatever, they shot out the tires out of and flipped a jeep almost every week...quit hatin'

 

[Mman]

Need to send the Faceman to Ruger HQ to scam up some folding stocks.

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[CharlieDeltaJuliet]

Needs to say " I love it when a plan comes together" and " I pity the fool" on it somewhere...

Hey at least in the movie they actually shot and hit people...lol