Swift A- Frame Break Away Ammunition

[Manny R]

I am curious if anyone can tell me their first hand knowledge using Swift A-Frame Break Away Ammunition for dangerous game. I am thinking of using it on Lion and buffalo on my next Safari to Africa . it's expensive ammunition ; but I am a big fan of Swift Ammunition.

 

[Manny R]

I would use the Swift A Frame Expanding on my first shot and have the Break Away for the 2nd shot if needed

 

[Hunting Hitman]

I’ve used them out of my 505 Gibbs on Elephant and they worked very well. I would not use a solid on Lions and only as follow up shots on a Buff.

HH

 

[BeeMaa]

I've not used the Swift Break-Away Solids but have heard good things about them. I use Woodleigh Hydros for my 375H&H.

However, in general, solids are only used for elephant, T10 (with DG calibers) and at the direction of your PH. Most buffalo hunts will not include the use of solids by the client or PH.

It's good to have a few, but I will typically only bring five or so when packing a total of 20-30 cartridges total.

 

[Manny R]

I agree with you but would like to take a few solids with me . Never know when I may need them.
thanks for your feed back.

 

[Hunter-Habib]

Excellent bullets and completely safe to use in even vintage double rifles. Very solid choice for elephant, rhino & hippopotamus on land.

I would completely abstain from employing any solid bullets on lions (or indeed, any of the great cats). What you need, is a premium grade expanding bullet which opens up relatively quickly but still holds together long enough to penetrate the hardened chest muscles of an adrenaline fueled lion (esp. during a frontal chest shot). Some of my favorite currently manufactured lion bullets are:
- Swift A Frames (if you can find them these days)
- Northfork Percussion Points
- Hornady DGX Bonded
- Rhino Solid Shanks
- Wim Degol Lions

In the past, Nosler Partition bullets used to be my projectile of choice for the great cats (until Nosler began to constantly keep listing them as "Out Of Stock" ever since the outbreak of the Chinese Virus in 2019).

I have successfully hunted Cape buffalo with solids in the past, prior to 1993. But nowadays, I prefer to exclusively load the entire magazine with premium grade expanding bullets. Not only do they down Cape buffalo visibly faster with heart-lung shots but it must also be borne in mind that the vast majority of African Cape buffalo are hunted in herds. Employing a solid runs the risk of accidentally wounding an animal other than your target game (via complete pass-through of the bullet from the body of the target animal and into a head of game behind him/her). This unfortunately actually happened to me during my life's first safari to Kenya in 1974. I had wounded a Cape buffalo cow when my bullet (a 300Gr RWS steel jacketed FMJ solid factory load fired out of a .375 Holland & Holland Magnum) had passed through my target Cape buffalo bull (during a broadside heart-lung shot) and hit her in the rumen. We didn't realize what had happened until much later. Fortunately, you could get away with this sort of thing in the 1970s without too many legal repercussions. Today... not so much.

 

[DLSJR]

Never use solids for lion, unless you’ve run out of expanding bullets. Just use premium expanding bullets on any cat.

 

[Manny R]

Does anyone have for sale any Swift A Frame Break Away ammunition ?
416 Caliber 400gr

 

[Hunting Hitman]

Does anyone have for sale any Swift A Frame Break Away ammunition ?

What caliber?

HH

 

[Manny R]

OOOPS... 416 400g

 

[DLSJR]

@Manny R Swift makes A frame expanding bullets and they also make Breakaway solids. Two different bullets altogether, there is no A Frame Breakaway bullet.

Which are you looking for? A Frames? Breakaway solids?

 

[Manny R]

Looking for Swift Break Away

 

[Hunting Hitman]

Looking for Swift Break Away

Manny,
Are you looking for loaded ammunition or just the bullets?

HH

 

[Manny R]

Ammunition

 

[DLSJR]

Ammunition

Which 416 cartridge?

 

[PatrickMa Ward]

I usedSwift A Frame in .3[emoji643]5 for a Buffalo , good choice.

 

[Manny R]

416 Rigby 400gr Swift Break away Ammunition looking to purchase

 

[Hunting Hitman]

Good luck with your search. Unfortunately Swift has massive production issues that are not getting fixed anytime soon. Your only option will be the resale market.
An excellent alternative would be the cup point solid from North Fork:

North Fork Bullets .416cal 400gr Cup Point Solid 50ct

www.reloadinginternational.com

I highly recommend them as an alternative that you can easily have loaded to your specs.

HH