I hate to be "that guy", but unless you shoot pretty sparingly, you'll probably use up a good bit of that barrel's life on a single hunt. On my PD hunts, I typically run through 300-400 rounds in 1.5 days.
For a .223 Rem or .204 Ruger, that's not all that rough on the barrel... if I was shooting 22-250 (or the AI variant!), it'd be a different story.
Food for thought... just don't want to see you come back on after the hunt talking about how your barrel went south on you.