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Old 07-08-2018, 03:50 PM
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I call these "400 yard guns". That is about max distance for consist hits on small targets like prairie dogs. Shooting coyotes, I would call them 500 yard guns. In years past, I have shot many rounds of both 22-250 and 220 Swift. I actually prefer the 220 swift round over the 22-250, but there is very little difference. With my guns, the swift just seemed to shoot good groups with about anything you fed it and appeared to have a little more accuracy that my 22-250. I love those 50 gr nosler bullets for the prairie dogs and years ago, many a crow has gone to the great corn patch in the sky because he encounter one of those 50 grainers out at distance of 200-300 yards. I won a few six packs of beer decades ago making bets on shooting eastern woodchucks in the head when we hunted the soy bean fields and the only time you could see a 250-325 yard shot was when they would stand up. Head shots with the swift at that distance produced a 6 pack about 75-80% of the time if I had a gullible hunter riding with us. Enjoy, they are fun to shoot.
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