Is .20TAC worth it?

[Roedinator]

Simple answer is yes it is worth
forget your off the shelf factory rifles and get a semi or full custom
jobbie built
I've been reliably informed less than an hour ago it will **** over a 220 swift for twenty three grains of powder
and still have a barrel left six thousand rounds later

wait a month or so and I will put up some pics of a proper rig
I'm having built
I await the incoming from the experts
​regards Pete

 

[ziggy]

you had news on it yet then pete?

 

[Roedinator]

you had news on it yet then pete?

yeah popped in on my way up north Ziggy mate
thats gonna be one bad boy the 30 inch barrel looks a lot more with it now its sat in the stock
Stock is still in its roughed out stage but been inletted and waiting the finishing stages from the
stocker
then back for blueing / bedding etc
to say I'm a happy bunny would be an understatement mate
as you know me and my mate from bristle have shot hundreds of foxes with his 22 .250 and my
243 ackley but time to move with the times mate even if it is costing **** loads
I think you will be impressed when you come down south on your next visit
​regards pete

 

[ziggy]

Brilliant news mate, really pleased for you...........and that's just with me having another visit!! haha seriously it sound awesome. cant wait to finally see the finished article.

 

[JeffreyL]

Simple answer is yes it is worth
forget your off the shelf factory rifles and get a semi or full custom
jobbie built
I've been reliably informed less than an hour ago it will **** over a 220 swift for twenty three grains of powder
and still have a barrel left six thousand rounds later

wait a month or so and I will put up some pics of a proper rig
I'm having built
I await the incoming from the experts
​regards Pete

I feel a competition coming on, when you have your artillery piece finished I will put my Swift alongside and then we will see how high it can ****. Your cronograph or mine, I can get 450 yds on my range. Hope you haven't been 'reliably informed' by someone else who has never owned a Swift. You will win on the powder, a Swift takes 23 gns to light the main charge!! Jeffrey

 

[d foxxer]

 

[6.5shooter]

+1 for the nasty powder guzzling barrel eating monster of a swift!!Im on my 2nd one now and wouldnt part with it for no 20 cal! 53 vmax at 4000fps turns crows into a puff.
60 vmax on fox at 3600 fps buckles them!
2000 rounds out of my last one but I guarantee half of you on here would never even shoot a barrel out!
I feel great when I finally burn a barrel

 

[Roedinator]

I feel a competition coming on, when you have your artillery piece finished I will put my Swift alongside and then we will see how high it can ****. Your cronograph or mine, I can get 450 yds on my range. Hope you haven't been 'reliably informed' by someone else who has never owned a Swift. You will win on the powder, a Swift takes 23 gns to light the main charge!! Jeffrey

jeffrey thanks for the offer it would be good to come over to yours and meet up
up I look forward to it
could you find a longer range as the Tac is just getting out of the starting blocks at 450
​regards Pete

 

[JeffreyL]

jeffrey thanks for the offer it would be good to come over to yours and meet up
up I look forward to it
could you find a longer range as the Tac is just getting out of the starting blocks at 450
​regards Pete

Well Pete it is 900 yds there and back. Keep in touch, looking forward to meeting you. Jeffrey

 

[Nobleman]

I bet the OP wish he had never started this thread now..!
Let battle commence..!

 

[finnbear270]

Couldn't use any of that lot mentioned above in a neatly kept cemetery!, .17 Fireball takes care of Charlie out to 200 guaranteed, with no chance of chipping those nice marble stones!

 

[Roedinator]

Couldn't use any of that lot mentioned above in a neatly kept cemetery!, .17 Fireball takes care of Charlie out to 200 guaranteed, with no chance of chipping those nice marble stones!

Hi Steve
good to hear your getting on with your new rifle
missed you and miffy at this years SD shoot mate
hope your both well
​regards pete

 

[finnbear270]

Hi Pete, the date dropped right on Paula's birthday!, very well health wise, Miffy & Keith too... Miffy's been busy on the deer, just wish I'd taken as many deer this year as Fox!

 

[timbeech]

I bet the OP wish he had never started this thread now..! Let battle commence..!

Nah, just expected it. Doesn't matter what you ask someone will always jump in with an opinion unrelated to the question and start a slanging match. It's funny though.

I don't care how good a .220 swift is, I'm after something that will last, especially if I'm buying a custom jobby. So 2000 round barrel life if a joke. It's either .223 off the shelf or .20TAC/PRAC custom.

 

[sikastag270]

hi

ihave a pal who has shot a swift for 45 years thousands of rounds fired
still very accurate and loves it

 

[jay 22]

i will stick to 223 and 22/250

 

[Southernfairy]

have a read of this: Warren's 4200 FPS "20 Practical"

great article.

 

[Roedinator]

have a read of this: Warren's 4200 FPS "20 Practical"

great article.

Thank you found that a very interesting read
pleased to see he likes the lilja barrels that's what's on mine
​regards pete

 

[6pt-sika]

Simple answer is yes it is worth
forget your off the shelf factory rifles and get a semi or full custom
jobbie built
I've been reliably informed less than an hour ago it will **** over a 220 swift for twenty three grains of powder
and still have a barrel left six thousand rounds later

wait a month or so and I will put up some pics of a proper rig
I'm having built
I await the incoming from the experts
​regards Pete

There was an article in "Outdoor Life" magazine about 15 years ago I'll never forget . Jim Carmichael of bench rest , hunting and sports magazine writing fame had written an article in that magazine about a certain 220 Swift he was sending in to rebarrel . This guy was a bit anal about record keeping on his rifles anyway the gun was built on the no longer made Shilen DGA action with of course a Shilen stainless barrel and I forgot who's stock (and yes it had a varmint weight barrel) . Anyway there were pics of the gun and then of the barrel after it were removed and a pic of the throat with a cutout so it was easily seen . And as one might think the throat looked like aliigator skin . So how many rounds and what velocity rounds had been run thru the gun ?

Mr.Carmichael had his journal , lab book or ledger whatever you care to call it beside the rifle and he said he had fired slightly over 7,000 rounds thru this barrel and all at full max meaning 3900-4100 FPS . He said when he first got the gun a number of years earlier it was a consistent 1/4" rifle for 5 shots at 100 yards and just for the record he shot four 5 shot groups with his favourite load for that gun and the aggregate of the four was slightly under 1/2" . Now in my estimation for a so called fire breather that had that amount of shots thru it 1/2" for 5 at 100 ain't shabby at all !

I personally have had very good results with several of the so called "fire breather" cartridges including the 220 Swift . Anyway if a person uses a bit of common sense when shooting them , they DO NOT burn the throat as much as some folks and gunwriters would lead one to believe . Certainly if you shoot 2 minute 10 shot groups and again and again you're going to burn the throat PDQ !

 

[Southernfairy]

I find that website bloody brilliant for anything rifle related, such a shame we don't have a more developed accurate rifle scene over here, although that is slowly changing it seems.