He told me years ago he wouldn't touch a ruger American wife had won. Flipping 270. Still 270.
I suspect your ruger is set up differently since he is willing to do it.
I'd say a good barrel is a better bet than a rebore but it depends on how picky you are. Our rebore 06 to 338-06 is an ok shooter. Hovers at 1.5 inches basically at 100 yards. Normally thats worthless in my eyes but it was a fun thing to try and its use is as a backup to moose while guiding. Doesn't take much to kill a moose RE size of groups. Even way on out there they are big.
I have no idea whats different with the American but he told me he does the M77's all the time.
I'm leaning towards a pac-nor at this point in time but still not settled for sure...im real curious to see how a super lightweight rebored barrel would handle and shoot so im still tempted to do it just to see.
I used McGowen for my last 9.3 rebarrel and the smallest barrel they would put on it was a #4, it was a total pig even at 20 inches.
