EJ, don't mention the .223Wizzer in a Swift thread
It gets the Swift fans all emotional when you remind them that there is a factory available cartridge that beats it, handily...
Yes, the Wizzer is waaay overbore.
Yes, it might be tricky to load for.
Yes, many (but not all) of the factory rifles chambered in it, SUCK.
Yes, it might be a throat torchin' SOB
Yes, it has failed to retain a consumer following for most, or all of the aforementioned...
But one can't ignore the fact that ~5 more grains of case capacity in the Wizzer = more raw horsepower to harness. Heck, I think Swift fans might speak ill of the .223 Wizzer simply because it has knocked their beloved cartridge down a notch on the .224 caliber food chain.
But it is what it is, THE fastest commercially available cartridge ever produced in .224 is no longer the .220 Swift. That fact will never change, no matter what. The Swift will always be #2 to the .223WSSM in speed. Always and forever more. No matter what becomes of the Wizzer commercially in the future, it will remain the King of that hill.
Come to think of it, I don't know of many rifle manufacturers who offer their new product line in .220Swift. So for all intensive purposes, it may very well become as "commercially dead" as the WSSMs are claimed to be by their naysayers...
And before the Swift fans get all knotted up, I can understand shooters having an emotional attachment to a particular rifle or cartridge. I've got my favorites, too
So use what ya like & like what ya use!!!
(notice I never said anything bad about the Swift)