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<blockquote data-quote="Tnwhip" data-source="post: 1007254" data-attributes="member: 32195"><p>Yea the 220 Swift is a oldy but goody. 1976 Bicentennial Ruger, sporter barrel. People may talk bad about Rugers but this one shot 1/2" with our reloads. My cousin bought it new. He lived in town and he would come out and we would ride around shooting at crows out in the fields on weekends. Then we started getting coyote's, I used it for several years calling,then gave it back him when I got my 2506. My cousin sold the swift to a friend. He never shot it much and sometime in the 90s I asked him if he wanted to sell it. So I bought it and got out my old load book and reloaded the 53hp match and 4064 I still had in my cabnet. Some time along the way the crown got buggered up and I fixed that and pillor bedded it. Then I shot several 1/4" groups. I carried it down to the farm and there just happened to be a crow at 200 yards and the crow killer took another one out. One time I got a crow at 75 yards and it blew, what was left of him up in the air 10 feet, a leg and tail feathers. They came down like a helicopter. I wish I had that on video. It shoots so good I have always been afraid of wearing the barrel out and have never shot it much. I did shoot my 2506 barrel out with my hot loads and 75hps. I just shoot my 223s and Ackley hornet and my new 22-250 most of the time. The 22-250 is a 700 sps Varmint and it shoots good but the old Swift still the best shooter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tnwhip, post: 1007254, member: 32195"] Yea the 220 Swift is a oldy but goody. 1976 Bicentennial Ruger, sporter barrel. People may talk bad about Rugers but this one shot 1/2" with our reloads. My cousin bought it new. He lived in town and he would come out and we would ride around shooting at crows out in the fields on weekends. Then we started getting coyote's, I used it for several years calling,then gave it back him when I got my 2506. My cousin sold the swift to a friend. He never shot it much and sometime in the 90s I asked him if he wanted to sell it. So I bought it and got out my old load book and reloaded the 53hp match and 4064 I still had in my cabnet. Some time along the way the crown got buggered up and I fixed that and pillor bedded it. Then I shot several 1/4" groups. I carried it down to the farm and there just happened to be a crow at 200 yards and the crow killer took another one out. One time I got a crow at 75 yards and it blew, what was left of him up in the air 10 feet, a leg and tail feathers. They came down like a helicopter. I wish I had that on video. It shoots so good I have always been afraid of wearing the barrel out and have never shot it much. I did shoot my 2506 barrel out with my hot loads and 75hps. I just shoot my 223s and Ackley hornet and my new 22-250 most of the time. The 22-250 is a 700 sps Varmint and it shoots good but the old Swift still the best shooter. [/QUOTE]
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