So you're not what someone might describe as a Ruger fan, going by that last bit about "thankfully Ruger is not." But you want Ruger to make a version of the takedown rifle chambered in the cartridge you like. And you're unlikely to use the takedown feature, which is central to the carbine's design. Somehow this seems a poor fit. Like, maybe you ought to be looking for a rifle that isn't a takedown? But if as you say Ruger is looking at making a PC44, then I guess it's going to happen, and what you do or don't do with it is up to you. Seems less than ideal, but to each their own. I'm puzzled as to why anyone would want a takedown rifle where repeatability of registration with a scope is predicated on using a special barrel-mounted scope base, when they don't want a takedown rifle. Why not get something in one piece, where the scope mounts once and for all and pulling it apart and stuffing it into a backpack isn't going to be a thing? This is confusing.