Assuming that as a shooter and reloader, "This ain't your first rodeo", most of us with an IQ higher than the humidity realizes that large, overbore, high performance cartridges are hard on barrels. To single out any one of them (220Swift, 6-06, 25-06, 264Win, 270Weatherby, 30-378, etc. etc.) is a futile exercise in mental masturbation. If you want to drive a Maserati Quattroporte , you are going to pay the price, in more ways than one. If driven as it was meant to be, I guarantee that you will not get 100,000 miles between engine rebuilds. Driven with some common sense, it will probably last as long as a Honda Civic. The problem is that if you choose and pay for that kind of performance, you want to use it, so quit *****ing and just go for it.

"If you want to run with the big dogs, you have to..............."

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