220 swift

[ISS]

Ironworker,

true except stop at Cabelas' and buy brass or loaded ammunition...

 

[Gary in MD]

Please - Lapua, Peterson, Alpha
Please make a run of top quality brass for the Swift

 

[20 TAC]

Please - Lapua, Peterson, Alpha
Please make a run of top quality brass for the Swift

I hope they don’t. That will cost me the price of more brass and another rifle. I’ve gotta get this Swift Ackley idea out of my head.

 

[ELR LVR]

I hope they don’t. That will cost me the price of more brass and another rifle. I’ve gotta get this Swift Ackley idea out of my head.

Do the Swift Ackley
Just do it
8 tw and 85.5 Bergers are good medicine for it
1st pic is me shooting
2nd pic is someone who doesnt even hardly ever shoot at 600 yds but is still a good marksman

 

[White Eagle]

I just got back from the range with my Ackley Swift
man what a blast
No kidding I'd like to see Alpha, Peterson and Lapua brass myself

 

[17VLD]

I hope they don’t. That will cost me the price of more brass and another rifle. I’ve gotta get this Swift Ackley idea out of my head.

Heck it's a great idea! I cant get it out of my head either, just bought 300 more Swift brass to dedicate to my Ackley rifle project.

 

[603Country]

I’ve had a Swift in a 77V since about 1980. On the second barrel (Douglas) now. I use Norma brass these days. 55 gr Nosler BT over a max load of IMR 4064. The rifle was and is a great shooter.

 

[Shotafterdark]

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!

Yeah but then the 22 creed can get the same
Make over and in turn be King of speed yet again .

The others can't.
Ask me how I know .

My improved wild cat with a 308 parent case took 50 grains of superformance .

And a 62 gr eld vt ....
If I had a slow twist barrel on this round in a 28 inch barrel and a 50 gr bullet that can take the ride ..

God only knows the speeds
I use 22 creed cases to fire form.

 

[jghoghunter]

Yeah but then the 22 creed can get the same
Make over and in turn be King of speed yet again .

The others can't.
Ask me how I know .

My improved wild cat with a 308 parent case took 50 grains of superformance .

And a 62 gr eld vt ....
If I had a slow twist barrel on this round in a 28 inch barrel and a 50 gr bullet that can take the ride ..

God only knows the speeds
I use 22 creed cases to fire form.

There's a reason you have been on my ignored list. This is it. The 22 creed case simply will not hold as much powder, 40* or not!! I have no idea where the 308 statements fits in here. I use 22 creed cases to fire form. Fire form what!!?? From these statements and others that you've made you also don't understand physics and relatively safe chamber pressures!!! I'm done with this thread and you will go back on the ignore list and I'm sorry I looked at the "ignored member" comments!!

 

[White Eagle]

so why do all these fast 22's get compared to the Swift?
Legendary and there is a reason for it, it just works

 

[358WCF]

so why do all these fast 22's get compared to the Swift?
Legendary and there is a reason for it, it just works

Maybe because it was the original 22 hotrod? 4000+fps, the original 48gr load was rated @4110 if my memory can be trusted, was a pretty exciting place to be in 1936 when the slowest powder available was Dupont's 3031. Legendary? Yes, & it still does what it always has, but better case design & brass has made it something of an anachronism. I liked my Swifts a lot. I also like all the x57 case cartridges... 6mm Rem, 6.5x57, 257 Roberts, 7x57, etc. but wont likely be buying any more rifles so chambered due to the scarcity of quality components. Nostalgia is overrated sometimes. YMMV

 

[No manches"]

so why do all these fast 22's get compared to the Swift?
Legendary and there is a reason for it, it just works

Exactly

 

[Ackman]

can anyone tell me some information about the 220 swift? Doesn't seem very popular and was just wondering what people thought of it?

It's touted as the speed demon. But brass stretches horribly because of case design. I has one many years ago, a Rem.Classic in 220 Swift.....beautiful thing and classics were Remington's nicest ever stocks. It shot well with Nosler 50's but it was never chrono'd and was sold after awhile. But to compare - accuracy load with a stock 22-250 Savage barrel is a 50 bal tip at 3925. Very good for a 22-250. In contrast, accuracy/working load in one 22-250AI with that same 50gr. Nosler is 4225. Another barrel is at 4246. That's cookin right along. But also, it's done with PMC brass which is quite strong and no longer available.. Lapua will not fit that chamber, too big in the web.

 

[skywag]

My 220 Swift........and I would NEVER have a "creedmore" anything!!

 

[danny]

My 220 Swift........and I would NEVER have a "Creedmoor" anything!!

Nice rifle, but you know that Rugers "do not shoot", but I have a bunch of them.

Danny

 

[White Eagle]

I have one just like it but it's a Creedmoor and everything

 

[White Eagle]

 

[603Country]

The cases do stretch, but I didn’t know that back when. The Norma brass lasted a long time. I partial resized and shot and repeated, again and again. Then one day I wondered if a neck sizing die would be better, so I got one, I neck sized a bunch of cases, primed them, put powder in them, and went to seat a bullet. The bullet fell into the case. The necks had become very thin due to my process.

All these years and I have never heard anyone that encountered the same thing.

 

[ISS]

As an aside, does anybody here have a 220 Swift Improved or AI reamer and set of dies they would part with?

thanks,

Rich

 

[Hal]

603

If you neck turned them, if your expander ball was to big or the neck bushing not small enough.
Your neck die didn’t have a expander ball in it, did it?

Hal