#10MinuteTalk – The 220 Swift by popular demand

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🗓️ 10 December 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

After many requests to discuss the .220 Swift, Ryan Muckenhirn joins Jimmy and Mark to do a 10(ish) minute dive into the cartridge, its history and application. As always – it is phenomenally interesting not only to learn about the cartridge but to get a peep into the cartridge encyclopedia that is Ryan’s brain.

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? We have 10 minutes here with Mr Ryan Muckin here and he's been talking with us a lot about cartridges as of late and we have yet another one by popular demand another one that starts with two.
0:11.0	Yes, it's the 220 Swift. Yes. And I got to admit I kept saying 22 Swift before because I just
0:16.4	kept lopping off that zero, you know, and but I'm I'm incorrect in that. What is the 220 Swift?
0:23.0	Is it a 22 caliber bullet or?
0:25.3	It is.
0:25.8	So same bullet diameter is like our 22-250,
0:28.3	which we've done before, or the very popular 223 Remington,
0:31.3	which is not a 223, either it's a 224.
0:34.0	Oh so the original 224
0:36.9	wait what yes so bullet diameter point 224
0:40.6	but they call it a 223, huh?
0:42.8	Or a 220, or a 222.
0:44.8	Or a 221 Fireball.
0:47.4	Oh, okay, maybe there's another one.
0:49.7	But the 220 Swift, what's the big deal about it?
0:51.7	What's the Carter, what's its etymology about it what's the car what's its etymology
0:53.4	its family history ancestry whatever so we're gonna go back in time to before the
0:57.5	1908 was that the 20th century yeah
1:02.1	1895 there's a rifle on the market called the
1:04.9	1895 Lee Navy which was a really cool straight pole rifle.
1:09.4	Straight poles are cool. It is. It was very novel action. I've seen exactly one in my entire life and it was
1:15.8	chambered in this ridiculous cartridge called the 6mm Lee Navy. And it's only ridiculous
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