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The 5 Fastest Rifle Cartridges
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Introduced by Winchester in 1935, the Swift was the first rifle round to crack the 4,000-fps mark.
Neither rifle nor cartridge was a success, and they were dropped in favor of the .30/40 Krag-Jorgensen, which did not last long, either.
The rifle Weatherby came up with, I recall, was a smoothbore, and for the cartridge, he necked down his terrifying .378 round to .30 caliber.
Ackley shipped his .22 EL rifle off to one Bob Hutton who operated Hutton’s Rifle Ranch in Topanga, California, and did all the rifle testing for Guns & Ammo magazine back in the 60′s.