Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting 7mm Rem Mag 150 Swift Scirocco recovered

Here is a recovery from a bull elk shot at 450-475 yards. Pretty good sized bull.

Load was started at 2950 from a 7mm Rem Mag. Shoots incredibly out of his rifle, just a little slower than a typical 7mm Rem Mag.

Anyhow, here is the bullet..







It retained 143 grains and expanded very nicely in my opinion.

Here is a cow elk with the same bullet.

This bullet hit behind the opposite front leg and came out at the rear of the rib cage. Left about a 2-3" exit in the ribs. Shot was in the 150-175 yard range. Decimating bullet in my opinion.

Scotty that SS II did a great job!

Hard to argue with that.

Congrats on the elk!

Looks like one heck of a bullet!

Good meat on the ground right there...

Guy

Great bullet performance.

It surprises me there isn't more love for the Scirocco bullets here on the fire. In my opinion they are hard to beat if you're looking for a good tough bullet. I haven't had any accuracy issues with them either.

They are pretty good looking bullets and hang together up close and open up at distance. They aren't priced horribly at all either considering you get 100 per box.

Maybe they have improved, but they required way to much load work compared to other bullets available.

I tried them once if 3 inch groups were acceptable I would of stuck with them ..

Just my .02 cents. Seat them at least .050" off the rifling to start with, don't be surprised if they shoot better further away. In the rifle that fired that Bullet pictured it was at least .150" off the rifling and shot like crazy. Not too much different than the monos I've tried.

I have never had any luck getting them to shoot.

They require a jump to get them to shoot well, at least that is what I have noticed with 3 rifles that I have loaded for. A really good bullet though imo.

That is what I am talking about when it comes to a bullet doing it's job.

Congrats!

I have been using them out of my 7mag for years with great results. Sub 1" groups and lots of really dead elk and antelope

I have tried these in the 2506 and 7mm mashburn. Both times the accuracy has compared to that of the nosler ballistic tip only the s2 is tougher and has a better ballistic coefficient.

I have always wondered how the 150 swift out of the mashburn at 3180 would work on elk. I guess that I now have my answer.

Probably because the first iteration Sciroccos were worse than a run of the mill cup and core but cost more. Hard to get that stink out of your nostrils.

Different bullet now.

Looks great Scotty nice work & thanks for sharing that's good to know I have been contemplating a 7mm Mashburn for a long time these threads make it really tempting!

I'm impressed that it expanded that much. My experience with them has been complete pass-throughs with minimal damage (on deer). Maybe they're better now.

I tried the original Scirocco in .308 and 7mm. Both grouped lousy no matter what powder/seating depth I tried.

Tried the Scirocco II in .243. Groups are roughly .6" for 3 shots at 100 yds. That put a smile on my face.

Haven't felt the need to try the Swifts again in .308 and 7mm since Nosler Accubonds and Barnes T-TSX seemed to work nicely the first time around.

Leftybolt