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<blockquote data-quote="Hunter 257W" data-source="post: 4404301" data-attributes="member: 12277"><p>Yep, Mr. Big is 100% right about the Swift being based on the 6mm Lee Navy case. I've been a fan of the 22 center fires since the early 1970's but have never even seen a 6mm Lee Navy case in person so don't be surprised if you've never heard of it. I'd say it's certainly worth $370 because you can't hardly get any center fire rifle for that kind of money any more. I have a couple of Mauser 98 based rifles that I'm happy with. One is a Brno 98 action with a 270 barrel on it. I tried to get the military trigger to work but could never get the pull weight where I wanted it so ended up getting a Timney trigger. My other Mauser 98 is a single shot action rather than a surplus military action. It has a 6mm Remington barrel on it.</p><p></p><p> My 220 Swift is a Remington 700 varmint synthetic that I bought in the mid 1990's or thereabout. It was somewhat finicky to load for as I tried a lot of loads before finding one that would shoot substantially under 1 moa. Finally got lucky with the 53 grain Speer hollow point. The Swift had a bad reputation for burning out barrels but that seems to have been mainly because of the softer stels used in barrels back in the 1930's when it was introduced as a factory cartridge. I don't think it's going to wear a barrel any more than a 22-250 to be honest. You are probably wise to not go with the 40 or 45 grain bullets though just to get high numbers on the chronograph. I've always preffered something around 55 grains for 22 varmint rifles.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hunter 257W, post: 4404301, member: 12277"] Yep, Mr. Big is 100% right about the Swift being based on the 6mm Lee Navy case. I've been a fan of the 22 center fires since the early 1970's but have never even seen a 6mm Lee Navy case in person so don't be surprised if you've never heard of it. I'd say it's certainly worth $370 because you can't hardly get any center fire rifle for that kind of money any more. I have a couple of Mauser 98 based rifles that I'm happy with. One is a Brno 98 action with a 270 barrel on it. I tried to get the military trigger to work but could never get the pull weight where I wanted it so ended up getting a Timney trigger. My other Mauser 98 is a single shot action rather than a surplus military action. It has a 6mm Remington barrel on it. My 220 Swift is a Remington 700 varmint synthetic that I bought in the mid 1990's or thereabout. It was somewhat finicky to load for as I tried a lot of loads before finding one that would shoot substantially under 1 moa. Finally got lucky with the 53 grain Speer hollow point. The Swift had a bad reputation for burning out barrels but that seems to have been mainly because of the softer stels used in barrels back in the 1930's when it was introduced as a factory cartridge. I don't think it's going to wear a barrel any more than a 22-250 to be honest. You are probably wise to not go with the 40 or 45 grain bullets though just to get high numbers on the chronograph. I've always preffered something around 55 grains for 22 varmint rifles. [/QUOTE]
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