One of my favorite walk about 22s for coyotes at any range is my light weight Ruger with a dredful composite stock, but what the hell it shoots tiny groups all day long at awesome velocity and its a great off hand shooter for coyotes..kills like lightening and don't have to hold over much at 4000 fps plus..but the wind will get ya on ocassion. I have a lot of fun with it, and its become my truck gun..I have a 3x9 on it, thats all I can handle off hand or with a pickup hood rest in the Owhyee dessert of Idaho..

What is it??? Well, I have no 220 swift friends they all got old and died I guess or cant walk or drive for that matter...Some are even too young to know what it is, and all I get it whazat???

It's one of my favorites.

It's not a walk around rifle though

Why is that? mine weighs 9 lbs with scope and loaded..comes with a sling, and with the weight it is easy to hold steady off hand..A walk about need not be a fwt rifle imo, thats just an option..FWT rifles are hard to hold when out of breath or whatever.... that extra weight and a 24 to 26 inch barrel steadies a rifle, at least for me..and yes I have a couple of fwt. rifles that I also use for walkabout from time to time as an option but mostly as a truck gun..

I love shooting the Ruger No. 1V 220 and 204 No. 1B off of bipods at prairie dogs, both have high power scopes (8x32 and 6x24) and weigh in at 10.5 pounds. For a walkabout rifle I like my TC Encore in 223 Rem with a 4x12 scope and weighs 7.5 pounds.

When I was young mine was a DAISY RED RYDER. I used to pour a little bit of oil down the barrel to help POISON the big game starlings and whatever I could shoot at!

Only IRON SIGHTS of course!

Hip

I'm a piker with only 2 220's.
one a rem adl in a bdl stock [factory screw up]

and a 112 savage single shot.
the 112 gets pushed.

the Remington gets real soft super open pointed 22lr case home swaged bullets stroked along at 3+K.
it's varmint 'chunk' record is about 14' almost straight up.

that leaves me the 223 below, and the 22-250 in between.

Sako L579 Varmint .220 Swift.

Lamar--other than the stock, what is the difference in an ADL and a BDL?

220S, he’ll yess.
I’ve had one for 20 plus years. Actually had three, two heavy barrels that I used for PDs. They were fine but way more recoil and muzzle jump. I sold them.
The one I’ve had for 20 plus years is a blue printed R700, 26” Lilja barrel, and McMillan Sako hunter stock, with a Leupold 4-12X on top.it’s very accurate on coyotes. I shoot 50 or 52 Berger’s mostly.

Ray I don't really know.

I think the barrel shape, a black piece of wood on the forearm tip, or something like that.

I have only had 3 Remington anythings that lasted more than a few months.
one is that 220, the other is a 3200 trap gun, and the third is the 8 mauser 700 that shoots 1-1/2 to 2" groups.

oh wait, make that 4.
I do have a 722 300 Savage in a Manlichter stock that got worked over by a local smith some years back.
forgot about that one.

everything else has either broke or the groups sucked worse than the 8 Mauser.

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Originally posted by carpetman1:
Lamar--other than the stock, what is the difference in an ADL and a BDL?

The differences are stock as mentioned plus the BDL has a floor plate release, the ADL is a blind magazine.

I knew the BDL (someone said Better Damned Looking) had the ebony tip and hinged floorplate, that the ADL does not have, thus my question what was the other difference? Seems if Lamars stock had those two features it would be a BDL? Is it stamped ADL?

There isn't any other difference between the two other than stock and floorplate. The barreled actions are identical.

Ive shot a lot of deer (mostly culling) with a 220 Swift with various loads and factory stuff..and as I recall only one required a follow up shot and even it was an instant knock down and could not get up..The minus side is blood shot everything, and I do not like that..I like the 60 gr. HP, but even the 40 gr. bullets kill like a lighting strike..pretty amazing caliber those hot 22s, some for the 22-250..v

My swift is older special run: stainless bead blasted, Ruger 77 with a black composite stock, dark stainless bottom metal, slimmer than most and incredibly accurate..It replaced a collectable Rem BDL to nice to hunt with, and it shoots as well or better..I lean towards Rugers these days with them now making their own barrels.

I ordered a 220 Swift barrel for my Thompson Encore that has a 1:8 twist. It shoots the 75gr Amax and the 77gr SMK into tiny little groups. It also shoots the 55gr Vmax like a house on fire. Love that rifle.
I have only shot one coyote with it so far and the SMK left a nasty wound on exit with parts of the lungs pulled out. It's not fur friendly at all. My friend hunts with a Ruger M77 220 Swift that has a pencil barrel and a pretty nice piece of wood on it. He has dumped numerous coyote with it as well as Badger and a few other pests.

I really like the caliber

For deer I shoot the rather new Nosler 64 gr. solid base bullet, and its a real sho nuff deer killer, with complete penetration lengthwise with the bullet coming to rest in the neck and shoulder skin. On broadside shots I have not yet recovered a bullet and the exit holes are nickel to fifty cent size..Good bullet...My gun loves the 52 gr. Hornady done much experimenting with it, it shoots about any bullet apparently and to the same POI, so it's the perfect truck gun. I have a number of loads ready to shoot this spring.Then there is the Hornady 60 gr. sp or hp and it works in all the hot 22s from the 222 to the swift and thats surprising.