Home Forums Reloading Varmint Rifles Pre 64 Swift?

Have used H414 and Win760 in all my slow twist Swift's for decades.
I think Hodgdon discontinued H414 because it was so well known that Win760 was the same and they sell them both
They still have a few duplicates like HP38/Win231

I shot the first barrel out on my 77v using 50-52 grain bullets and 4064 it's hot and erodes throats faster than 760 or 414. Would use up the 414 first. As mention above the ball powder burns cooler and that helps longevity..mb

my 220 swift rifles i own have all shot well with H414 so i just used H414 even my last Ruger #1 i rebarreled to a 220 Swift with a Brux barrel and use 60 gr. Nosler partitions for critters shoots so well H414 i never seen a reason to not use it. plus this bonus is i don`t have to weigh powder because its a ball powder so i just volume load H414 powder for my 220 Swift ammo always.Pete53

I would not bother with the 60 grain VMAX. That needs a 1-12" twist, never seen a 1-14" (which is what the Swift has) that would stabilize them.

For powder I'd start with Varget since it is pretty temperature stable. I've had really good luck with it with middle weight bullets in the .22-250. Try it with the 50 TNT first, then the 50 VMAX.