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Hawk,
I'm going to give RL-17 a go in a .222-50 Ackley pretty soon. Seems like a good fit with the heavies...
Glad you mentioned that...
- Greg
Success is found at the intersection of planning, hard work, and stubbornness.
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Campfire Oracle
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The sad part is that your barrel is toast with only the bullets pictured. I ain't skeered, besides you're just jealous cuzz you don't keep one long enough to toast a tube..........grin
"Dear Lord, save me from Your followers"
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That 63 grain pill is one freakingly accurate bullet...
Pretty good all arounder but the Swift AI will definitely test the integrity of it... I gotta agree with you Greg the 63 is awesome, its the single most accurate bullet I have ever used period and I've used alot of different bullets. If they kill as good as Dober says I will buy a truck load or two... Theyve' run into some decent pigs here, and some larger deer. Worst case I have an example of is a live weight 218 pound buck that his neck stopped the 63. But dead. Had same results at appx same size with with a 300 wtby and 180 partitions though.. I used to run the 63s in my 22-250 too before I dumped it off. Head shots out to almost 300 yards and hogs to around 225 to 250ish pounds... heads were no match... Ain't gonna be a TSX, but aint a bad choice. Accurate too. Not as much as true match bullets IMHO, but a heck of a good bullet all around.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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Campfire Outfitter
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I can't spell... Deal with it...
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Campfire Tracker
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The sad part is that your barrel is toast with only the bullets pictured. I ain't skeered, besides you're just jealous cuzz you don't keep one long enough to toast a tube..........grin Didn't figure it made you flinch. Should be a cool stick.
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Campfire Tracker
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Oh, and it will be a 1-8" twist. Curious on how the 75gr Swifts will play out or a 53gr TSX at 4100.... If you had a 53 grain TSX @ 4100 available in 1954 the .25/06, 6MM, .243, .240 Weatherby and many others never would have seen the light of day. YMMV
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Campfire Ranger
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Veddy cool, Scott.
What do you all 'spose the difference between this and a .224 TTH might be capacity-wise? I've been contemplating one of the two...
I'll be very interested to hear how this thing turns out.
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Campfire Tracker
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Come on Scott...a month, no update? WTH?  What are the rest of the details for the build?
Last edited by War_Eagle; 05/26/11.
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The sad part is that your barrel is toast with only the bullets pictured. Maybe............ One option is to load to a sane level occasionally and enjoy not having to trim the AI case.
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Campfire Member
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I have found that RL-22 gave the best accuracy with the 75gr a-max and that H4831SC gave the best velocity and the best season to season velocity spread so I could run one load and still great accuracy. I have found that the .220 AI is one easy round to load for and seems to be accurate with every powder I tried with the 75gr A-max. Never tried anything lighter since it shot those scarry accurate.
Enjoy its a fun cartridge. Let us know how those TSX do even thought Iam not able to hunt with anything under .243 dia I have always wondered how well it would work.
If Iam not hunting, Iam thinking about hunting.
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