Originally Posted By: ninehorsesRusty,
You would put a four cylinder motor in your Corvette, because it will get better milage and will get you from point a to b.
The loads I listed are maxed out but will shoot .3 five shot groups out of my rifle. Sorry you have to slow down to 3500 to get accuracy out of yours.
I will agree with you on Swift's in a PD town, gives you something to shoot those 300-600 yard dogs with while the .223's cool. Even shooting slow, 10-20 rounds and the Swift gets hot. Up close, the splat effect is awsome!
First answer first: No I would not. Would you? But if you had a Corvette, would you always drive it full thottle? Every time that you drove it would you drive it wide open? Of course not as that would be stupid. That's the point that I am at least trying to make here. There is no reason for me to shoot my Swift 100% of the time as a .220 Swift. Remember that the main question here was accuracy- not speed. And as someone that has had to replace a .220 Swift barrel due to shooting nothing but hot loads through it all the time (and some very accurate ones as well) I am not in a big hurry to do it again. Not when its' going to cost me $500 or so. Again, that would be pretty stupid.
And I'm not too sure where you got the idea that I had to slow my Swift down to get accuracy out it. I never said that or ment to imply that. I have some pet loads that will push a Sierra 52 grain HPBT at well over 4000 fps that will put them into a 5/8" hole at 100 yards. But any prairie dog that I shoot at 400 yards will go to pasture poodle heaven just as well if I slow that load down to 3800 FPS. The life of my brass will more than double as well. More than double.
And for sure, the mighty .220 Swift will certainly heat up a barrel in a hurry. But when mine gets too hot for further shooting I just set it back in the case and pick up another gun for a while. If my targets are less than 400 yards away, and most of them are, I prefer my .223 AI or if the shooting is fast and heavy then my AR-15 varminter.
I have learned a lot about the .220 Swift in almost 4 decades of owning and shooting them. I think that I will make use of what I have learned in a way that makes my gun and me very happy.