.220 Swift Ballistics

Ballistics and Drop for the .220 Swift

Cartridge Type: Rifle
Height: 2.205"
Width: 0.473"
Average FPS: 3845
Average Energy: 1674
Average Gr: 51
Recoil: 0.9
Power Rank: 1.96 of 20

The .220 Swift is an old cartridge made back in 1934 by Winchester and is based off the 6mm Lee Navy and even older cartridge designed back in 1894. This bullet grains range from 40 gr to 60 gr, and its speed ranges between 3,600 on the 60gr and 4,200 fps on the 40 gr. It should also be stated that the .220 was considered a Lamborghini cartridge when it was released as no other bullets reached the 4,000 fps let alone the 4,200 fps. The top end swift travels nearly 1000fps faster than the average .223 cartridge.

The .220 Swift is ballisticaly speaking a varmint round due to it's size, but some people do hunt larger game like deer in the states that allow for it. Many people don't believe in the power of hyrdorstatic shock, but proponents of the round say that the high velocity creates large amounts of "hyrdorstatic" energy causing heavy damage. Indeed if you've ever shot a ground hog or small varmint type animal with the round you've most likely seen the animal "explode".

Despite the age of this cartridge we expect it will be around a bit longer as it's really a fun and swift round. If you are hunting a varmint animal to stuff and mount at a local taxidermy shop..don't use the .220 Swift you'll spend hours trying to put the critter back together again, if you are hunting for fun or nuisance control this is a great cartridge.

*Casing image above is an artist rendering and not a real photo of .220 Swift Ballistics cartridge. While we have went to great lengths to make sure that it's as accurate as possible this rendering should not be used to generate specs for casings.

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Known Rounds

.220 Swift-Hornady Hollow Point, .220 Swift-Hornady V-Max Moly VX, .220 Swift-Federal Sierra MatchKing BTHP, .220 Swift-Federal Nosler Ballistic Tip, .220 Swift-Hornady V-Max w/Moly, .220 Swift-Nosler Partition, .220 Swift-Winchester Pointed Soft Point, .220 Swift-Nosler Ballistic Tip, .220 Swift-Remington Pointed Soft Point, .220 Swift-Hornady V-MAX, .220 Swift-Norma Soft Point, .220 Swift-Norma Oryx, .220 Swift-Hornady V-MAX w/Moly,

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Other Cartridges with Similar Widths (cartridges not bullets)

7.21mm (.284) Lazzeroni Firebird, .357 SIG, 7x64mm Brenneke, 6mm Remington, .357 Magnum, .32-20 Winchester, .280 Remington, .416 Dakota, .225 Winchester, .300 Dakota, .220 Swift, .303 British, 9mm Luger (9mm Parabellum) (9x19mm), 7mm Remington Ultra Magnum, .300 Savage,

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Other Cartridges with Similar Length

6mm Remington, .257 Roberts, 7x57mm Mauser, 8x57mm Mauser JS, .444 Marlin, 6.5x57 Mauser, .220 Swift, .303 British,

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Power Rank

The PowerRank is an estimation of the cartridge power. The first number is the value of this cartridge, and the last number is the value of the most powerful round in our bullet database.

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