What is Swift Scirocco?

Swift Scirocco bonded is the perfect bullet design for today’s fast, flat-shooting long range cartridges. Its secant ogive, 15 degree boat tail base and polymer tip create a sleek, aerodynamic profile that helps maintain down-range velocities and flat trajectories.

Is the Swift Scirocco bonded?

The Swift Scirocco II uses a precise polymer tip to improve ballistics and initiate low-velocity expansion at long distances, while its bonded copper jacket maintains weight on close-range hits.

Whats an A frame bullet?

S.D. B.C. For 28 years A-Frame® rifle bullets have set the standard by which all bonded bullets are measured. With its controlled expansion of 2.2x and 95%+ weight retention A-Frame® penetrates deep and mushrooms perfectly, making it the choice of hunters for use on any game, anywhere in the world.

What is a swift A frame?

The rifle bullets were made from 22 rimfire hulls with Corbin tools. About two years later, Swift began production on a new rifle bullet for large game and invested in more equipment. Further testing and bullet refinement led to what was to become known as the A-Frame®, with a copper-jacketed and bonded core design.

What is a Scirocco bullet?

Scirocco bonded is the perfect bullet design for today’s fast, flat-shooting long range cartridges. Its secant ogive, 15 degree boat tail base and polymer tip create a sleek, aerodynamic profile that helps maintain down-range velocities and flat trajectories.

What is Nosler ammunition?

Nosler, Inc. is an American manufacturing company based in Bend, Oregon, known for producing ammunition and handloading components and specializing in high performance hollow point and soft point hunting bullets. The current companies also include subsidiaries Nosler Custom and Nosler Reloading.

What is Scirocco bonded?

The Premier Scirocco Bonded line is some of the most versatile and reliable big-game ammunition offered today. The expansion-generating polymer tip and boat tail base combine to defy air resistance at the front end, and reduce drag at the back.

Are Scirocco bullets good for hunting?

The 180 grain Scirocco was the best performer. Followed by the A-frame, followed by the Partition. I have also used the 150 grain Scirocco on whitetail deer and it has performed perfectly. The Accubond is a good bullet and I have also used it.

Is Swift still making bullets?

Swift has made and offered the finest hunting projectiles in A-Frame®, Scirocco®, and Break-Away® for over 30 years. Now it makes those same projectiles available to you in Swift HIGH GRADE Hunting Ammunition. This hunting ammunition from Swift is virtually hand crafted and hand inspected.

What makes the Swift Scirocco II bullet unique?

The Swift Scirocco II bullet’s streamlined design and high ballistic coefficient produce flat trajectories, while retaining more velocity and energy downrange. Aided by its proprietary polymer tip, the Scirocco II expands at minimal velocities yet offers high weight retention at close range thanks to its bonded copper jacket.

Why choose Scirocco® II?

The Scirocco® II produces positive expansion at minimal velocities as well as controlled expansion and high weight retention at close range. No other tipped bullet offers the terminal range of Scirocco™ II. DIA. WT. For 28 years A-Frame® rifle bullets have set the standard by which all bonded bullets are measured.

How much does a 180 grain Scirocco II cost?

.300 WSM 180 Grain Scirocco II | 2,960 FPS | 0.520 BC | P300WSMSS1 | MSRP $56.99 All of this new Swift Scirocco II ammunition from Federal Premium comes in standard 20-count boxes.

What is the BC of a Scirocco bullet?

Scirocco .30-caliber 180-grain bullets carry a .520 BC measured against a .507 BC for Nosler 180-grain AccuBond bullets. A few years after Sciroccos reached the market, quite a few mega-magnum cartridges, such as the .300 Remington Ultra Magnum, were introduced.