Swift Bullets

[Buckleman]

Anyone know what was wrong with the first Scirocco bullets

 

[Lou270]

The gen 2 are supposed to be a bit tougher, but nothing wrong wirh gen 1. Swift already had a tough bullet in the aframe and viewed the scirocco as a long range / medium game bullet. People used the scirocco for bigger game (elk/moose) so swift toughened it up. I have used the gen i in 165 gr / 300 Win for deer sized game and accurate and lot of damage but still holds together.

Lou

 

[sable tireur]

and viewed the scirocco as a long range / medium game bullet.

Here again is the need to define the term 'long range' so that we can all be on the same page.

The Scirocco follows in the now longer line of all those tipped bullets, where even the manufacturers of solid bullets are fitting new designs with plastic tips, some you have to add to the bullets by yourself. Hornady uses aluminum tips on their A-Tip line of bullets. All in the name of potentially higher BC numbers.

Unfortunately the Sciroccos don't necessarily add higher BCs into their designs. But that doesn't mean that the bullets don't perform because they do. I've used them in several cartridges where medium game was on the hunt menu. They perform just fine, maybe not as 'long range' as some would hope but successful harvesting game anyway.