219 Improved Zipper published in Speer’s 1959 Reloading Manual for Wildcat Cartridges Number 4, rim and base diameters are exactly the same as for the. Instead, the company moved backward rather than forward by virtually duplicating an obsolete cartridge.Īccording to a drawing of the. 220 Swift, and it could have sharpened its shoulder angle to 30 degrees, reduced body taper a bit, shortened case length just enough to make it different and reintroduced it as the new. The company already had the world’s finest long-distance varmint cartridge in the. Winchester described it as “semi-rimmed” to emphasize its suitability for both single-shot and bolt-action rifles. 225 Winchester is a rimmed cartridge with the same rim diameter as the. Hodgdon H-380, IMR-4064 and Accurate 2015 were among the powders Layne used to handload the. As far as I know, the only other production rifle chambered for it was the Savage Model 340 that was also offered in. 225 was dropped from the Model 70 in 1971, making it perhaps the shortest-lived rifle cartridge developed by Winchester. 225 plodded from the starting gate, stumbled along for less than a year, and then bumped headlong into Remington’s domestication of the. 222 Remington were added in 19, respectively. 225 Winchester during the very next year. 220 Swift back in 1964 in the “new” Model 70 Varmint, but it was replaced by the.
220 Swift.Īccording to Model 70 guru Roger Rule, Winchester brought the. Yielding to obviously overpowering competition, Winchester threw the proverbial towel into the ring in 1958 by discontinuing production of Model 70s in. During the next few years anyone who was not shooting a rifle chambered for that cartridge was shooting an old wildcat called the. 22-250 (right) that was largely responsible for its demise, but that does not prevent it from being a darned good varmint cartridge. 225 Winchester (center) is not as fast as the.
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