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    220 swift barnes bullets

    To be clear, I'm specifically referring to the varmint grenade which is a powdered metal core frangible bullet which is considerably longer for a given weight than a lead core or even the solid copper Barnes bullets. Stabilizing a .22 50gr vg is like stabilizing an 80gr lead bullet because they...
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    220 swift barnes bullets

    Shotgun77 You are cheating. The vmax works well because it is a lead core bullet. But I am impressed that you can keep the 52tsx stable. I've tried pushing the 45tsx with RL-15 through my Ruger no.1 14" twist with less than spectacular results and couldn't keep the 50vg on paper. I have gave...
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    220 swift barnes bullets

    I have had great results with 45-62gr tsx and 50gr varmint grenade, but I have a 1:8 twist barrel on my Swift. Barnes 36gr vg is all that will work in a 14" twist Ruger barrel
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