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85-90 grain spiral pt. .224 dia who has them????

Fancy seeing you here. I don't know about your bullets but howdy!

I've got a Swift but never found a need for bullets that heavy. What do you want to use them on?

For that weight I generally go to the 6mm Remington.

Jim

I have two custom swifts... one has an 1/8 twist and the other a 1/7.7 twist. Heaviest I have run has been 80 Amax. Sorry can't help you out with the 85-90gr

I’d like a fast twist swift.

.224 TTH

Same here, something twisted like irfubar’s would be just right but I don’t have the space to take advantage of something like that back here in MI.

Any swift for that weight would have to have a faster twist barrel. At least probably an 8 twist. I've always much preferred the 22-250 case over the swift and I have a factory 8 twist tikka 22-250 that shoots 80's very well. I have a 7 twist 22 Creedmoor remage that loves the 87g eldms.

The Creedmoor case makes a great heavy 224 bullet launcher. The 22-250 does a good job too but I think the Creedmoor is the best way to go.

Bb

I like the Swift and have used it for a long time.
For heavy .22 bullets at high velocity I go with .220 Howell.

I built a couple of 8 twist Swifts and love them!!

An interesting thing about my oldest 220 swift, I bought a Teslong bore scope and expected the worst, the throat was in great shape. I would estimate around 800 rounds and very little alligator skin in the throat, my 270's were worse

I should have a swift but don't and won't tell you the rest of the story. I do however, have a a .22-250AI which is probably the next best thing. I love it! And the AI is easier on brass so maybe it's the best thing. JMHO

2 Swifts - but no fast twist.
I do have a 22-250 1:8 twist, though. Never gone over 70 gr bullets, though. YET!

Those spiral points are really somethin’.

Extreme penetration.

They’ll screw you up

I sold my swift, I play more with my .243’s.
Swift is a fun cartridge.

Osky

I have a box or two of brass for 220 swift if anyone needs them. Im sure you have something to trade

I don't know the origin date of the .220 Swift, but it had to be quite a distance back there - and maybe first commercial in a Winchester. In 1959 while visiting a farm in western PA, a fellow named Parsons was talking with us and a crow lit on a fence about 250 yards away. He rested his Winchester bolt action on something close by and turned that crow into a loosely connected pile of feathers right now. Very impressive to a young guy that knew almost nothing about rifles and shooting.

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