Lloyd , I think he has the new model Mini that are being made on the new equipment with the shorter 16" barrel . I have read and am recieving good accuracy reports on the new minis.
I think any person that is a gun person for any amount of time has heard of experiences ( or had) of bad accuracy with the old minis, I cant even begin to tell you how much load dev. and factory fodder I threw down range from my 1980s' mini to get a round that would consistently bullseye a 3" orange stick on target @ 100 ( and after 3 rounds the warming barrel would start to walk but not horribly) , When I did find it, it ended up being a Black Hills 75gr BTHP moly 223 offering which was more then fine for me since I didnt have high hopes that it would stabilize in the minis 1 in 10 milk shake straw sized barrel. let alone provide me with MOA @ 100 . The rifle was dressed with a 10X scope and the Hogue rubberized stock which I cant recommend enough.
Now are the new minis getting the accuracy of a 16" barreled iron sighted AR ? From what I'm getting from first hand accounts of friends and fellow shooters at the range it is not far off ( and some are on par ) , Sadly I think people get into a mind set all to often that "THIS AMMO" is what they are using and then dont understand why it is giving crappy accuracy
And for those of us that have had spotted others with or had ourselves really bad accuracy from the mini , Give the Hogue rubber coated stock a try , It tends to do a bit of a bedding on the action and it improved the groups I was getting across the board with my old mini. I am again considering one of the new minis just to see what I can squeeze out of it accuracy wise , And of course you guys will get those range reports
I have had several SKS rifles over the years and some were much better on groups then others but again ammo played its role, My present SKS is the 16" "paratrooper" model with the fixed mag and a ATI dragonov knock off stock ( got it for 20 bucks used ) on it for the stabalizing the high riding fore arm flares add to the the tapco Railed Gas Tube replacment for forward scout mounting a pistol scope. This set up with a 4x and my handloaded 110gr Vmax .308 in winchester brass and the 150gr Win SP super Xs in the Win brass at staying pretty consistent in the 1.5 to 2.5 range @ 100 and groups grew just a little when running the Golden Tiger FMJ ammo through this same rifle @ 100.
Experiment , It cnat hurt and it gets you more range time , and that is never a bad thing