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Since your choices were the Swift and the 25/06 I take it that you are shooting some longer ranges or are in a windy situation.

Let me tell you a short story, there was a guy in Texas named Harold Broughton. Harold was a Predator control officer for one of those small Texas counties for years. Later on in his life, he became involved in barrel making and Benchrest shooting.

Harold and his Wife shot the 220 Swift for 30+ years. In his later coyote shooting, he went to the 257 IMP which is a clone in ballistics to the 25/06. He said that the 100g Bullet clobbered those Texas yotes with authority at 500 and beyond whene the Swift seemed to give out around 450 yards.

Since Harold had killed over 5000 yotes, you could take what he said as gospel.

Hope this helps