I’m buying a cheap rifle because I don’t want to thread any of the nice rifles I already have. Whatever rifle I buy is going to get used and used hard. It’s going to get beat up. It’s going to be a tool. If I can buy a rifle that shoots well enough to hit a coyote at 300 yards through a thermal scope and it only costs me $450 bucks that is a hell of a lot better than seeing a rifle I care about get beat to hell. The Ruger also has a 10” twist and I just happen to be sitting on a pile of 60gr Sierra tipped matchkings…. So the Ruger makes sense.
