Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters 220 Swift Any Out There?

I know the OP is looking for a lightweight rifle, but I have a very nice Ruger M77 MkII Target rifle in .220 Swift with dies and 900 rounds of ammo I would like to sell if anyone is interested. It has a Leupold 12x target scope with a custom BDC on it.

Beautiful rifle.

Funny...I came here looking for information on current prices of Remington 700 Classics in 220 Swift, and found this post.

I bought mine new in 1993, used it some in West Texas when helping a buddy on his ranch, then the wifey used it on two or three bucks, and it's just sat in the safe for the last 18 years or so. I'd be surprised if it's had 100 rounds fired through it all told, and 90% of those were load development and showing off, the rest deer hunting.



So, if someone could help me out with a price on these, I'd appreciate it. It also comes with one of those good looking Remington tan composite stocks that looks like Picasso splattered black paint all over it, dies and brass, and I suppose the old 6X Weaver it's currently wearing. The pictured woman is not included as I've realized she's the only example on the face of the earth who can put up with my $hit.

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I did the same with the same gun. What a stupid, stupid move on my part. Found out years later the Rugerr 77 220 Swift barrels were outsourced from Shilen.




Was at the Tulsa Gun Show a few years ago & this fella was selling one of these & it was beautiful. Money talks & broke goes to the ATM. When I returned there was a guy standing there laying out the cash. That round trip plus wading back thru the crowd cost me valuable time.

Sure learned my lesson. I never go to Tulsa without enough cash.

This was always my modus operandi since I began hunting in 1987. Only graduated to bolt guns when I could not get a 300 WSM built. I still use my original Encore frame which has a very low serial number.

I have only one custom Encore barrel that has outsmarted me since I started. But, I will overcome & conquer it.
My two favorites are my 300 Wby & 7 Wby, very accurate SSK builds.

I bought a Ruger, liked the cartridge so much that I sold the Ruger and built one on a Model 70, extremely accurate and easy to shoot.

Mines a Remington 700 Classic with a Burris 6.5-20X Fullfield II. It dotes on 50gr Nosler Ballistic Tips and H414 powder. Longest prairie dog shot is 488 yards. One small antelope a few years back was DRT.

Bought it many years ago when I was a young man after hearing my great uncle's stories about his Model 70 in 220 Swift.

Out to 500 yards, it's the flattest shooting rifle I've ever used.

Sorry...it's not for sale.

I visited my wife's uncle's ranch in 1984. They presented me with shooting prairie dogs with either 17 Rem in Rem700, 220 Swift in M70, or 243 in M70.

After ~100 prairie dogs I liked the 243 best.

I was shooting prone on the ground with a Harris bipod.

My wife stood in the bed of a pick up truck, put he bipod on the cab of the truck, shot a prairie dog with the 17 Rem, and was done. She has only fired that one rifle shot in her life.

I have returned to prairie dogs again and again. I now use a 223.

I now have a 22-250 Reamer and rifles, but it is too much like a 220 Swift, a throat burner with no real advantage over the 223.

the 220 Swift is still my all time varmint cartridge i carry a Brux barrel 220 Swift Ruger # 1 year around in my truck seems to always get the job done that`s needed .its the one cartridge that seems to have unique load sharp sound and hits varmints hard too ! i do have a couple of 22- 250`s also and i know the 22- 250 is another good cartridge but its not a 220 Swift .

Been thinking about having a lefty Cooper built in .220 Swift. Might be a great rifle for Texas pigs, Axis deer and whitetails.
Bob

i would put a 26 inch barrel on your new swift with a 8 -10 twist ,mine likes 60 gr. Nosler Partitions and 60 gr. B.T. ,good luck,Pete53

I love the swift... have two , both built on Mauser actions.

1909 Argantine Mauser, Douglas #3 with a 1/8 twister... loves 80 gr Amax and pretty much everything else you feed it



1908 Brazilian Mauser, McGowen #1 , 1/7.7 twister

Two pretty rifles you have there.

What I was thinking. Probably a 10 twist.
Bob

Very nice! Where'd you find the stock on the 1909?

irfubar,
very nice, thought out rifles you have there. When my barrel gets shot out I want to get a faster twist on the new one. My 77 is 1-14. Very accurate with 52gr bullets, but would like to shoot some heavier ones.