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Figured I'd post here as it'd get more traffic. They seem to carry a decent range of big bore cartridges. http://www.swiftbullets.com/hi...mmunition-s/1828.htm | ||
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I wonder what their pricing target will be...Like Federal/Nosler or more like Hornady. | |||
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love those A-Frames | |||
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More like Barnes / Trophy Bonded / RHINO / GS Custom loaded ammo would be, I'd guess. Good on ya, Heeler75! _______________________ | |||
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Jon - Don't get your hopes up for some more reasonably priced ammo. Their website shows $133 for a box of 416 Rem. Mag 400 gr. A Frames. No prices shown for anything larger. I'm sure glad I reload when I see prices like that. Tom Z NRA Life Member | |||
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haha, Swift will be anything but cheap. Hunting: Exercising dominion over creation at 2800 fps. | |||
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Here's a link to Graf's and Midway USA for some comparisons. Both are already listing the Swift Ammo. http://www.grafs.com/retail/ca...gory/categoryId/323? https://www.midwayusa.com/416-...n-magnum/br?cid=8957 Looks to me like Swift decided to make their own (or have someone make for them) instead of selling only components as I can't seem to find any listings of Federal or Remington loading bullets. | |||
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Love the A-Frames for Africa.... uncanny ability to mushroom the exact same way, whether in an Impala or a Cape Buffalo. | |||
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$133 and change for 20 .416 Rigby's Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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yessir! (las one on the end is a Hornady Interlock 180grain out of a 300 Weatherby RECOVEREd from an impala, weighing half original weight) other three are 300r Aframes from my 375 eland (175 yards) Zebra (125) Wildebeest (chest@65 yards)  USN (ret) DRSS Verney-Carron 450NE Cogswell & Harrison 375 Fl NE Sabatti Big Five 375 FL Magnum NE DSC Life Member NRA Life Member | |||
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Yes, absolutely perfect performance. | |||
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No question it is a great product. Question is how much more expensive for tem loading them for me? | |||
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Love A-Frames. Not a bad price, really. I don't have time to reload anymore. Glad to hear it. Federal Premium changes bullets every now and then and you can't always get what you want. Now that Swift is loading, I know I can get my favorite in .416. | |||
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THese look great. But, the ones I have used in a 7mm Lazzeroni Firehawk all lost the lead from the rear end. That is why I prefer all copper bullets for my own hunting. No question of that ever happening. Mind you, one can never really be 100% certain of a bullet's performance - despite what all the manufacturers claim! I make my own, out of copper rod. And sometimes we get copper rods that have minute faults in them. It is normally easy to sort these out. Like the center of teh rod would have a tiny cut. We also weight each bullet, and if there is any jump in bullet weight we know that bullet is faulty, and only use it for practice. Despite all this, we have had two occasions where the bullets did not perform as they should have been. One actually killed a buffalo bull, and the pieces we found on the other side under the skin were shattered pieces!! One did even worse. I hit the bull on the shoulder, and he hobbled for a few yards, unable to walk. Another bullet into the head dropped him. We found out that the first bullet completely destroyed his shoulder - turning the bones into what looked like sand!! And no part of the bullet was found at all. | |||
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Is it that the bullets did not perform as expected or were they shot at too high a velocity for their construction? A .38-55 bullet will mushroom just fine at the expected velocity but will disintegrate if shot from a .374 H&H. I think most bullets will do well within their limitations. Including lead. Cal _______________________________ Cal Pappas, Willow, Alaska www.CalPappas.com www.CalPappas.blogspot.com 1994 Zimbabwe 1997 Zimbabwe 1998 Zimbabwe 1999 Zimbabwe 1999 Namibia, Botswana, Zambia--vacation 2000 Australia 2002 South Africa 2003 South Africa 2003 Zimbabwe 2005 South Africa 2005 Zimbabwe 2006 Tanzania 2006 Zimbabwe--vacation 2007 Zimbabwe--vacation 2008 Zimbabwe 2012 Australia 2013 South Africa 2013 Zimbabwe 2013 Australia 2016 Zimbabwe 2017 Zimbabwe 2018 South Africa 2018 Zimbabwe--vacation 2019 South Africa 2019 Botswana 2019 Zimbabwe vacation 2021 South Africa 2021 South Africa (2nd hunt a month later) ______________________________ | |||
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The velocity might have been too high for them. They did kill the animal they have shot at - in this case a waterbuck, but penetration was not very good. I have also had very bad penetration from Barnes X if driven at very high velocity. I think we were getting 3140 fps with the 300 grain Barnes X. I throttle back my own hunting ammo to about 2800 fps, for best penetration. | |||
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