| teach84 - 4/20/2025 07:26
I will stick by my faith in P.O.Ackley. His testimony was that if he could only have one rifle, it would be .220 Swift( of which he designed an “ improved” design.
He was invited to go on a federally-sponsored hunt to reduce the wild burrow population on federal lands in the western mountains & showed up with .220 Swift. Every other hunter thought he was a fool for using such a caliber. Whence the shooting started, everyone who saw how that .220 Swift. Put down 800# male burrows instantly-with one shot, it soon came to be that all of the hunters were begging to try his gun. He who has an experience is not at the mercy of he who has a theory. That said, what others have said about properly designed tests is correct. Well, there would need be more to this story to make me believe traditional 220 swift loadings would put down 800 lb animals instantly. P.O. musta showed up with 90 grain bullets, and super tight twist to stabilize them, loaded as hot as he could push them. A 55 grain commonly loaded bullet in a 220 swift has a terrible sectional density akin to a flying ashtray and will simply not achieve the penetration necessary to provide instantaneous kills on CPX3 class animals. Sorry, but it ain’t happening, unless as I stated, there were extenuating circumstances. |
308 vs 7.62 vs 5.56 on 5 gallon water jub
