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The short barrel life is one reason I don't care for hot magnums....and my shoulder is another reason. :lol:

I have a friend who owns two 77 Targets, one in .204 and the other in .22-250. They both shoot well. He brought them over a couple of years ago, and was consistently ringing the plates at 400 yards. (10", 5" and 3" plates).

Not questioning your experience with Rugers, but I have a model 77 in .270 Win that's a shooter, and I have friends who own Rugers that are shooters. I've only run across one recently that wasn't a shooter.

They fire the exact same diameter bullet, Al. It's just the designation that's deceiving. Just as a .270 Winchester fires a .277" diameter bullet, the .308 Win was named the exact size, whilst the .30-06 Springfield, .300 Win Mag, .300 Weatherby Mag, .300 Savage, etc all use the same diameter...

You are referring to the .308 Winchester, aren't you Ed? Not to be confused with the .300 Winchester Magnum, which is a more powerful cartridge firing the same caliber bullet. The .308 Win and 7.62x51 are interchangeable. Sort of like the .223 Remington and 5.56x45. The main difference has to do...