That's why I don't have a Mini 14.
My first center fire modern rifle in 223/5.56 (i.e. wasn't a surplus something) was a Colt AR15 Match Target, after falling in love with the light recoil & accuracy, I started looking at others in the same caliber ... I bought a mini and can't suffiently express my disappointment. I mean, on the A-Team, it was very accurate!
I worked with it for a month or so, I'm a reloader and tried several different bullets & powders besides different factory ammo's and it just never did better than 3.5" @ 100 so I sold it ... I really wanted to like it, but couldn't.
It wasn't ant better than an SKS!
In the mid 90's, after building a couple AR Franken-guns with JP Enterprise barrels that shot under .75" (and under .5" on a good day) I saw another mini-14, it had beautiful wood and bought it ... it was t any better than my first ... sold it and swore I'd never buy another.
So 25 years fly by, I own or have owned many different brands of 223/5.56 including HK, AUG, Valmet, CZ, Bushmaster ACR ... and a couple months ago ... I saw another mini in a Choate folding stock ... it called to me and I answered the call. I haven't bothered to shoot it for group size as I'm sure it'll piss me off as it's a 181 series ... I'm not going to scope it, but off-hand I can hit a 12" gong at 100 (7 of 10 times) I like it so I'm just going to enjoy it for what it is, it's a good touch gun.