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Wanting to buy one of these but I want an original nylon stocked one in .221 Fireball. My question is did they offer the .221 in the later versions with the longer smooth barrel and the nylon stock?

AFAIK the .221 Fireball was only made in the original XP100 with its 10" ventilated rib barrel.

The later models, such as the XP-100R, were made in .223 and .22-250

edit to add, there may have been custom shop models produced in .221, but I don't think any of the production guns were so made.

I have never seen a factory XP-100 (center grip or rear grip) in 221 FB in a 15" barreled version.

I shot IHMSA silhouette from its inception and if there were long barreled 221 FBs out there someone would have been shooting them on the 1.2 scale targets. Plenty of the vent rib short barreled original XP-100s in production class, once they quit setting the targets full foot on the target stands..

My recollection also. The only XPs in .221 had the vent rib 10.5" barrel.