I have a ruger #1V in 220 Swift, beautiful rifle however the swift bbl aint as good as it once was as the throat is pretty well burnt out of it.
Used to have alot of fun with that rifle shooting pop bottles and milk jugs waaaayyy out there.
My wife had never fired a gun before meeting me and the swift was her 1st one. After she had learned how to shoot that gun became hers.

I have some targets around here some where with some very impressive groups, most shot by my wife. The longest shot we made with witnesses around was at 2L pop bottle at just over 700 yds surprisingly that little bullet still had enough juice to where you could see the hit ei; the bottle popped. I made a shot once by myself, I have know idea how far it was but it was along ways. I shot 5 rounds at a milkjug full of water and figured I was missing as I couldnt see any hits. I drove out to retrieve the jug before i left and lo n behold it had 3 holes in it, those little bullets just didn't have enough energy left out there to make the jug pop.

The best load I came up with was with 35gr of reloder 15 and sierra 55 gr SP bullets using Rem brass and a Winchest primer. I fooled around with alot of diffrent loads and yes had to make it go over 4000 fps just to say I did it.

We got probably 7000 rnds thru this before the accuracy really tapered off due to the throat errosion, I can't seat the bullets out any farther to get it closer to the rifling. Keep your loads to a resonable level tho and it should last along time. Have fun