Is the Mini 14 gay or retarded?
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So you’re saying it’s a candidate for a Bi-nary trigger pack?Why can't it be both? By calling it just gay does a huge disservice to a platform that is "otherly abled"
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I inherited a Mini-14 today. Oklahoma Highway Patrol stamped.
That's kewl.
That's the only Mini-14 I'd own. Neat.
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I’m not so sure it was actually an issued firearm by OHP. I feel it may have been a special run thing for some event that happened to OHP? Some shootout maybe? I dunno.
iircc multiple oklahoma le depts/agencies & odoc used standard mini 14s & gb models before phasing out to go to ar's,
I think odoc still uses the standard mini & gb's.
Edit to add: back in 80s when I worked for the state, one of the park rangers had one in his car along with a 870, can't recall if the game wardens did or not, the lake patrol had 870s & rifle cases (never seen them open so idk what kind of rifles).
I do remember they all carried blue or stainless 4" s&w 686s, except for the one older lake patrolman who was once a treasurey agent, he carried a 28.
I think odoc still uses the standard mini & gb's.
Edit to add: back in 80s when I worked for the state, one of the park rangers had one in his car along with a 870, can't recall if the game wardens did or not, the lake patrol had 870s & rifle cases (never seen them open so idk what kind of rifles).
I do remember they all carried blue or stainless 4" s&w 686s, except for the one older lake patrolman who was once a treasurey agent, he carried a 28.
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No, I’m pretty sure OHP issued them. I know a now-retired Trooper who was a young Trooper when they replaced the Winchester Model 12s with them.
ETA: Unless you mean you don’t know if that particular rifle was OHP issued. The Mini-14 was issued by OHP, but maybe not that particular one.
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Only 1300 O.H.P. Mini-14’s made. Nice.
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Found on ARFCOM :
“I've been told by numerous gun people over the years that they were issued in 1979 to all troopers immediately after a massacre in Bryan County, OK May 26th 1978 when 3 OHP troopers, Pat Grimes, Pappy Summers, and Billy Young were murdered by escaped convicts. The troopers were outgunned and finally other troopers had to rely on personal hunting weapons to kill the convicts in a situation similar to the 1986 Dade County massacre.”
“I've been told by numerous gun people over the years that they were issued in 1979 to all troopers immediately after a massacre in Bryan County, OK May 26th 1978 when 3 OHP troopers, Pat Grimes, Pappy Summers, and Billy Young were murdered by escaped convicts. The troopers were outgunned and finally other troopers had to rely on personal hunting weapons to kill the convicts in a situation similar to the 1986 Dade County massacre.”
I have a blued GB Mini that I bought from a couple of mossy old Ruger collectors in my town when I was a kid. I was told that it had been an OHP weapon but it’s not similarly stamped on the heel. It’s had the bayonet lug milled off, barrel shortened and the flash hider appears brazed rather than welded. It’s a little package all folded up.
Darkest day in OHP history.
One of the troopers was found at the back of his car with an empty revolver, and a hand full of brass. Training moved from catching your brass to dumping it on the ground. In a pressure packed crisis most people revert to training. You don't need to be dumping brass in your hand and sticking it in your pocket if you're engaged an a gun fight.
Andy Stumpf puts it this way: in a critical situation, you will not rise to the occasion, you will sink to the level of your training. A friend of mine is living proof of that adage, albeit in a less serious way.
He is a factory-trained armorer and instructor on the HK MP5, and his primary instructor on that was a former SAS operator who was involved in the Prince’s Gate operation when they stormed the Iranian embassy in London. That instructor drilled controlled bursts (normally three-round bursts) into the heads of the students.
My friend used to compete in national SMG shoots. At one of those shoots, the end of the final stage was to crawl through a tin horn/culvert, then fire as many rounds as you could on a single pull of the trigger into a 2x4, with each hit counting for one point.
So he plugs in a fresh 30-round mag, crawls through the culvert, lines up his sights, squeezes the trigger, and his training kicks in—he squeezes off a three-round burst. All three rounds hit squarely on target, but out of a potential 30 points, his training limited him to three points, and that was the difference between first place and third place.
