222 Remington Magnum.īoth of these are much more efficient cartridges than the bigger, fatter boys mentioned above. Personally, I think the 22/250 could be done away with as well by the use of the. The 22/250 Remington is almost as fast, a bit easier on barrels and generally more accurate than the Swift. 220’s demise, though, was Remington’s introduction of the 22/250 they named after themselves, even though it was widely known by wildcat (non-standard, factory-loaded cartridges) reloaders as the. Having a prodigious amount of powder behind a relatively small bore didn’t help either, but Winchester did wisely put stainless steel barrels on most of them, which helped their longevity. Part of its reputation came from the fact that the cartridge and the rifles it was chambered in were so effective at hitting small targets at relatively long range, their owners simply shot them a lot. Image from By Ultratone85 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, 220, left, and 250-3000 Savage ammo are once-popular calibers that have been reduced to history by improved designs. It’s an odd cartridge with a bit of a rim on it, as it’s based on the old 6 mm Lee-Navy military cartridge. 220 Swift held steady in sales in its hey-day but never burned up the sales charts as well as it burned up barrels. 223 due to the former’s longer neck length but this difference is largely academic and for all intents and purposes the.
222 will tout its accuracy advantage over the. 223 as the 5.56x45mm NATO, as it’s known in military parlance, doomed the. The slightly higher velocity and proliferation of the. Its obsolescence was caused by its little brother with the same progeny: the. The accuracy was so good that it was the undisputed king of bench rest competition until the PPC family of cartridge ended its reign permanently about 30 years ago. 222 split the difference between them quite nicely and outshot them both, as far as accuracy goes. 220 Swift on the commercial market for the. Until it came along, there was only the little pipsqueak. One of them is even one of my favorites and a life-long hunting buddy. I’ve owned rifles, and even handguns chambered for every one and many I still use and won’t be giving up any time soon, but they are still completely unnecessary. Just to start some controversy I am going to stab a bunch of old friends (cartridges I’ve used in the past and still do) in the back and throw them under the bus as completely unnecessary in the modern world. Then I changed it up a bit and named my top five rifle cartridges. In a previous column, I related which five cartridges I would take if unfortunate enough to be limited to that number.
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