Looking at the dimensions it looks as if a 220 swift should be a perfect fit in a standard mauser action. Has anyone ever done one?

Does the Swift have to have a 26" barrel? From the point of view of muzzle blast more than velocity what is 24" like with this hot rod?

Hola 1894 why not an 5.6 x 57 ? it fir a M98 you can buy the barrel from LWalther as standard , it have a tight twist to handle 75 Grains KS cases can be done from standard x 57 cases .

Saludos

Daniel

1894---

I've done them but it takes extensive feed rail and magazine box work to do it. The Swift has a RIM.

Yeah, the 5.6X57mm would be better. Particularly if you get a fast-twist barrel and shoot heavy (70 gr+) bullets in it!!

My first .220 Swift was built on a Santa Barbra Mauser action, a Federal 24 inch sporter weight barrel, and a semi-fancy black walnut classic design stock approximately 24 or 25 years ago. Topped it off with a Redfield 3X9 Accutrac. I had to do a little rail work, fit a magazine block and be careful to load the magazine one rim stacked in front of the other.

I shot many many coyotes, a few bobcats, several Texas whitetails and one Colorado mule deer with it. I used the now obsolete Sisk 49 grain Express bullet. It had a tough jacket and a very tiny tip of lead exposed so it was perfect for not damaging hides and penetration on light game. It was a superb long range varmit rifle.

Later when the barrel shot out I pulled the barrel and sent it off to be rebored to .257. When I got it back I chambered it to .257 Roberts Improved. I still hunt with it now and it has harvested many Texas whitetails and a few hogs.

The swift is a real pain of a cartridge IMHO. Good ballistics but be prepared to neck turn and check OAL frequently as it flows brass like nothing else I've ever seen. I have a 22-250 Ackley Improved on a VZ24, however, that's a dream. 4000fps with 52 gr bullets and .5 inch groups. No changes to feed rails, mag box or boltface are necessary. Consider this before a Swift.-Rob

I had considered a 5.6x57 but I don't want that darn thick neck! Maybe my smith can use another 22cf for the neck part of the chamber reaming?

1894, then look at the .22 Newton. It is essentially the 5.6X57, but without the thick neck!

Indeed I have looked at the various versions - I think the other one is the 22 Clarke? The trouble is I wouldn't want to pay for the reamers.

Mybe you could rent a reamer. There are several suppliers who will rent you a set for a short time, at much less cost!!

try the 22.243 MIDD easy to form from 243 Win case and very powerfull the 22/6 REM is very good too and feed very well in bolt action

5.6x57 is the most inacurrate cartridge I have never shoot and one of the most costly too.

good shooting

DAN TEC

dantec, if you neck the 6mm Rem. (or ANY 57mm case) down to .22, what you have is: TA DA!! A .22 Newton!! Only Newton made his from the 7X57mm Mauser case, because there weren't any smaller caliber ones in the U.S. at the turn of the 20th Century! Yes, the .22/6mm Rem is 100 years old!

how bout a 22 Cheetah? gabe