220 Swift with 4831.

Doing some reloading for a guy's Swift. It shoots factory Hornady's well, so that's the bullets he got. Started out with the old standby for the Swift, IMR 4064. Good speed and some real flat numbers on the chronograph, but I couldn't hit a load that shot satisfactory.

Switched to good old IMR 4831 and the second load I tried shot .570. From there it just got better with changes. Seated .010 deeper and with a cold bore it shot .430 at 100 yds. Went .005 deeper and went back and tried again and it shot .400 including the cold bore shot. 3 shot average on the chrono has an extreme spread of just 7 fps.

Velocity with the 4831 is down by Swift standards. 3500 with a 55 gr bullet. But with that consistency and numbers it's hard to go chasing after something else. I don't think a groundhog getting smacked by that 55 gr v-max is gonna protest much about being down on speed.

3 dead groundhogs for sure! Dan.

Yepper Dan. Everything with the 4831 was shooting about 1/2 inch low, and to the left compared to factory so I adjusted the scope at home before shooting this last round and need to move it a click back to the left, but other than that it's on.

Be nice to find both speed and accuracy but I can't keep the gun for 2 weeks in the middle of groundhog prime time. Might be able to work at it at a later date. Just a mid range load of 4064 was doing 3700 but wasn't satisfactory on accuracy. If I had time I'd work on getting it nailed down.