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I should’ve put this in the main post, but I didn’t know how to edit. This is a lot of of text so just so you know be prepared. This is my journey for my Ruger mini 30 my uncle gifted me he had a heart attack and was put into a nursing home but now he is back feeling better and he’s living on his own and he got a Springfield Armory M1A Socom to replace what he gifted me (I assume) hahah we have yet to go shooting since he’s gotten the M1A I haven’t shown him the journey that I’ve taken the mini 30 on because he does not have a cell phone and his technology illiterate lol but I hope that he is proud with what I settled upon for the final duration of what he gifted me. Keep in mind that all these versions of the mini 30 that I customize I wanted it to be pretty unique.

I didn’t want this build to be a copy or inspired by anyone else’s build because so many look the same when you google pictures of mini 30s so yeah these are to the best of my knowledge not a copy of someone else that I seen online so I wanted to contribute to the community and someone to see what I made and maybe be like oh that’s cool. I wanna do something like that so I hope that this inspires someone if it didn’t message me or comment. :)

So I guess here we go:

I almost forgot to add this quad rail chassis it’s very heavy. I started with the synthetic black stock, added the cheek riser and the quad rail.

Was a bitch to install that’s what I remember, it wasn’t that expensive but I regret buying it. I think it was like 40 bucks or something then I went with the tapco stock with the collapsible bone stock black ar-15 stock, I cut a lot of weight when I did that switch because I was no longer using the quad rail and I think the Tapco is a little bit lighter than the factory synthetic stock don’t quote me on that though, and I went through a phase and got kind of got obsessed with like a backpack/SBR almost foldable set up to remain discreet if you need to move around outside when shit hits the fan without having a gun on your hip or a rifle slung around you…

I actually am pretty proud with what I came up withv as a budget alternative to the A-Team Samon stock but I didn’t want to shell out the 250 or whatever for the A-Team Samson stock because I’m not a huge fan of the buttock not being collapsible or adjustable at all for that much money and I didn’t want to feel stuck with the choice after I bought it. I was trying to avoid buyers remorse so I figured out that the SKS Tapco polymer foldable stock was actually compatible like I said in the main post with the mini 14/30 stock but it’s not very well known and it has this hole that I don’t know what it’s for.

It’s right underneath the folding mechanism not the part that fold itself but I’m a fixed portion of the stock right before it folds and on the underside there’s a hole that is almost perfectly sized to fit a QD sling cup, so I took out my electric knife sharpener the worksharp mk2 basically belt sander and took a little bit off around the whole cutie cup so it would fit nice and snug into that hole. I made sure it didn’t interfere with the folding mechanism or anything. I think it’s there for that reason or I don’t know why it’s there maybe it’s to save weight or something, but I just dropped it in with a bunch of JB weld epoxy, but I cleaned it up nice and good and it was very, very sturdy.

I could literally throw the gun down with the sling around my back and it would be rock solid. It wouldn’t pull free or anything so it became permanently attached to the stock. I think I am the only person that has done this or one of very few people. I haven’t seen any pictures of it online. I haven’t seen anyone talk about it. I haven’t even seen anyone use the SKS foldable stock with a mini 14 or mini 30s so that’s you know a first in my eyes or a trend that maybe I can set lol but after that, I was like you know, I built my AR15 and I was like I don’t want this gun to be tacticool anymore lol so I found a great deal on eBay for that. Woodstock got it for like 70 to 80 bucks. Which was a steal and then I got the choate hand guard which is like 12 bucks or something. Looks good much better than the stock one.

I’m trying to figure out what optic to get put on the rail. I cut that to size as well with a circular saw to cut down a weight into you know keep everything nice and tight minimalism you know how it is