I don't recommend the .218 for deer, except for head shots. Shoot them between the eye and ear and you get a bang flop! Don't rebore a .218. Use it as is. In the Ruger, one can use better bullets than the flat nose.

Jack

"Do not blame Caesar, blame the people...who have...rejoiced in their loss of freedom....Blame the people who hail him when he speaks of the 'new, wonderful, good, society'...to mean ,..living fatly at the expense of the industrious." Cicero