FrankenMauser
New member
This is an extremely common theme that you'll see repeated thousands of times - especially when people are discussing how terrible their 'standard cartridge' barrels were (.270 Win, .30-06, .280 Rem, 7x57mm, .257 Roberts, etc.).The Rugers we had were good shooters. My old 220 Swift was an exceptional rifle.
It has long been suspected that the varmint barrels were of higher quality, and from a different supplier (Shilen being prime suspect, as noted earlier).
But just because our .220 Swift barrels were fantastic (yes, mine was, too), doesn't mean that other barrels couldn't have varying quality.