220 swift

[jghoghunter]

There isn't anything that a 220 Swift can do that a 22 Creedmoor can't surpass.

WOW
Santa must have brought you some of that white dust he gives his reindeer to make them fly. Build, since you cant buy a swift to shoot say 85 gr. bergers and leave the needsmore in the dust!!

 

[Ironworker]

WOW
Santa must have brought you some of that white dust he gives his reindeer to make them fly. Build, since you cant buy a swift to shoot say 85 gr. bergers and leave the needsmore in the dust!!

If you go the custom rifle rout, a 220 Swift can be chambered in a 7.5 twist. My 8"twist 22 Creedmoor shoots those 85.5 gr Bergers just fine.

 

[Hotshot]

A 22 Creed is nothing more than a 22-250 improved. I've heard this crap all my life about how improving that cartridge is equal to or slightly better than the Swift. Fast twist barrels and high pressure powder charges do miracles. Blah blah blah. What if you improve the Swift cartridge? Go to a fast twist barrel? Load more powder than is safe in the cartridge? The 22-250 is left in the dust again.

 

[cowboybart]

Case capacity = fuel capacity = horsepower.
I've heard all about efficiency. The bottom line is can a small block run with a big block?? Yes. However, if you do the same things to a big block as you do to a small block - the big block wins every time!!
Put an 8 twist on a Swift, put a sharp shoulder on a Swift and it will stomp the Creed ad nauseam.

Long live revived posts!

 

[jghoghunter]

A 22 Creed is nothing more than a 22-250 improved. I've heard this crap all my life about how improving that cartridge is equal to or slightly better than the Swift. Fast twist barrels and high pressure powder charges do miracles. Blah blah blah. What if you improve the Swift cartridge? Go to a fast twist barrel? Load more powder than is safe in the cartridge? The 22-250 is left in the dust again.

Back in the early 90's I was going to build a 22/250 AI, told my Pap, got slapped in the back of the head. He said how dumb are you? Why would you take something smaller and make it ALMOST as big as something else you can buy off the shelf. Start with the biggest and make IT bigger. That was my first 220 weatherby rocket. There are a few people on here that don't understand the rules of physics. When you take one cartridge and make it as big as another one then all of a sudden you get velocities that trump the bigger cartridge by say some 2-300 fps and then they tell me it's all within the pressure limits and its safe. I say let me know when your shooting it at my range so I can go home because I don't want to be part of the investigation someday on how that guy lost the side of his head!! Incidentally those people are on my ignore list now and have been for a few years.

 

[jghoghunter]

If you go the custom rifle rout, a 220 Swift can be chambered in a 7.5 twist. My 8"twist 22 Creedmoor shoots those 85.5 gr Bergers just fine.

Please remember I'm just having fun. But when you start comparing apples to apples the needsmore is "just fine" before the needsmore would "surpass" the swift.