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Would one of you kind gentlemen who owns one of these please do a brother a favor? Would you please measure the diameter of the barrel at the muzzle?
Thanks.
"An archer sees how far he can be from a target and still hit it, a bowhunter sees how close he can get before he shoots." It is certainly easy to use that same line of thinking with firearms. -- Unknown
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I should be so lucky.
Nice rifles.
What fresh Hell is this?
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I wonder if there is enough steel at the muzzle to have a .270 rebored to a .338-06.
"An archer sees how far he can be from a target and still hit it, a bowhunter sees how close he can get before he shoots." It is certainly easy to use that same line of thinking with firearms. -- Unknown
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I have that rifle in an '06 - assuming it's the same barrel profile as the 270, I can measure and report back in a bit. I believe I've read of others reboring that same rifle to 9.3x62...
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"An archer sees how far he can be from a target and still hit it, a bowhunter sees how close he can get before he shoots." It is certainly easy to use that same line of thinking with firearms. -- Unknown
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You are a shameless rifle loony......
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Just exploring my options.
"An archer sees how far he can be from a target and still hit it, a bowhunter sees how close he can get before he shoots." It is certainly easy to use that same line of thinking with firearms. -- Unknown
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Well, you have good taste anyway. 
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My wife said, "Why don't you forget about that and just get the other rifle you were looking at?" - Dakota 7x57. She's a good woman!
"An archer sees how far he can be from a target and still hit it, a bowhunter sees how close he can get before he shoots." It is certainly easy to use that same line of thinking with firearms. -- Unknown
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Do it now! Before she realizes what she has said!
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She's a good woman. Unfortunately she's not a wealthy woman.
"An archer sees how far he can be from a target and still hit it, a bowhunter sees how close he can get before he shoots." It is certainly easy to use that same line of thinking with firearms. -- Unknown
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sounds like a neat idea. Kinda like I'm thinking of reboring a Ruger #1 .375 H&H into a .416 Rigby
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Reverend Mike,
I can appreciate being a loony, but I'm not sure I'd do this to an Express.
Reverend Killjoy
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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"An archer sees how far he can be from a target and still hit it, a bowhunter sees how close he can get before he shoots." It is certainly easy to use that same line of thinking with firearms. -- Unknown
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It's already a 270, you can't improve it 
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The Express is gone.
Gold Labels, gone.
Red Labels, gone.
#1's are limited runs only.
They'll probably be down to 2 variants of Hawkeye's by next summer.
I'd leave that .270 a .270.
Travis
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Reverend Mike,
I can appreciate being a loony, but I'm not sure I'd do this to an Express.
Reverend Killjoy Besides, here are the economics: Ruger M77 Express - .270 Win (new): $1800 Rebore to .338-06: 300 Total: $2100 Dakota 97: $8350
"An archer sees how far he can be from a target and still hit it, a bowhunter sees how close he can get before he shoots." It is certainly easy to use that same line of thinking with firearms. -- Unknown
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The Express is gone.
Gold Labels, gone.
Red Labels, gone.
#1's are limited runs only.
They'll probably be down to 2 variants of Hawkeye's by next summer.
I'd leave that .270 a .270.
Travis
All good points. But that's still a buzz-kill! 
"An archer sees how far he can be from a target and still hit it, a bowhunter sees how close he can get before he shoots." It is certainly easy to use that same line of thinking with firearms. -- Unknown
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The Express is gone.
Gold Labels, gone.
Red Labels, gone.
#1's are limited runs only.
They'll probably be down to 2 variants of Hawkeye's by next summer.
I'd leave that .270 a .270.
Travis
You mean a bunch of cheap schit RARs don't make up for those nice long guns? At least Ruger still makes nice single action revolvers.
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Reverend Mike,
I can appreciate being a loony, but I'm not sure I'd do this to an Express.
Reverend Killjoy Exactly! Besides, Look at the JES website for reboring and there is no mention of Rugers. I had a Ruger rebored by a fellow in North Dakota who wouldn't make any promises, and said they (Ruger barrels) can be trouble for some reason. Mine is certainly not pleasant to look at - rough as a cob actually- but it shoots very adequately for hunting purposes, at least for whatever I'll ever hunt with a 358 Norma. I certainly would not mess with trying to rebore a barrel that has all that custom machining done to it.
Sometimes, the air you 'let in'matters less than the air you 'let out'.
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