Recently picked this up at the local range. Some idiot forced a choate flash hider / front sight on it and banged the pins in on nothing. Scraped up the front of the barrel pretty good, luckily touched none of the bore or rifiling. I paid $470 and ordered a new front sight from ruger. Did not know that ruger sends front sights without the roll pin hole drilled out. I just banged on the front sight for now. It came with a gg&g pic rail and the accustrut. Zeroed it the other day with a shitty crimson trace red dot. Is the gg&g rail worth a shit? Shot about 80 rounds without cleaning it, ran great and very accurate for a mini. I’ve only had pre 580 series guns, I plan on keeping this one.

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Sorry to hear about P.O. mis-installing Choate front sight/flash suppressor unit.   It's one of the best items out there, if properly installed.  This means NOT "banging" on anything.; Just installing things the way they were intended to be installed.  Mfr instructions are quite clear on how to install such items.  NO "Banging" needed nor desired to do the job properly.

Dual-clamp Accu-Strut definitely worthwhile on early "Pencil-barreled" Mini-14s.   Mini-30s and later Mini-14s with later "Heavy" barrels likely not so much; individual rifles can vary.  Single-strut barrel braces probably not much good, as per manufacturer specific statements, so save your money and install a dual strut unit if you think it necessary.

GG&G products have a good rep overall, but that does not mean that GG&G items are the "best" items for the Mini-14.

I long ago gave up on receiver-mounted optics for the Mini and have used forward Scout Mounts from Ultimak on Mini-14s, M1s, and M1A rifles.

Never any regrets.

I used the sight tool from matrix precision and tapped the new front sight on. It was very easy, just wish Ruger sent the sight with the roll pin hole drilled out. I don’t have a press and don’t feel like tearing shit up.

I think the mini-14 is a very fast handling little carbine.  My complaint is the same as most other people...the mini-14 is famous for poor accuracy.  If the mini-14 would reliably shoot 1-1.5" groups at 100 yards I could live with that...but they usually don't shoot that well.