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2/4/2025 10:53:15 PM EDT
Any ideas on age of this thing? Butt pad looks nothing like my 180 series mini.  

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2/5/2025 1:58:17 AM EDT
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180 series is pretty much a different gun than what came afterwards.
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2/5/2025 8:30:06 AM EDT
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You think this stock is From an early 180?  I need to pull my other one out and see if it fits.
2/5/2025 9:30:23 AM EDT
[Last Edit: raf][Edited] [#3]
THIS THREAD


should help.  Suggest you follow link within the thread.
2/5/2025 9:30:55 AM EDT
[Last Edit: raf][Edited] [#4]
180 series should have curved butt plate, possibly of metal.

Suspect P.O. cut stock and installed a "flat" Ruger butt plate. Unknown how much the stock was shortened, if at all.

Much of the difference between 180 series stock and later series stocks is in the fore-end, with the 180 fore-end being slimmer and shallower.  180 series stock won't fit later series Minis.
2/6/2025 8:16:37 AM EDT
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Thanks for all the help so far.   Checking out that thread now.  


I’ve actually got two that match but one has a big chip out of the heel of the butt stock.   Maybe they are “custom”.
2/7/2025 5:07:00 PM EDT
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I have that exact same butt plate on my Mini-14 Ranch.  Its serial number is 187-57xxx, and according to Ruger it was manufactured in 1986.  It also has a 1:7 twist rate which is nice.

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