Swing Rifles - History for Wikipedia

[ovenpaa]

Is the Swing action a delightful piece of history or is it still regarded as a desireable action?

Given the history of the Swing I would consider it to be a desirable action of yesteryear, I have shot next to one in the past and it plus the owner were doing quite nicely, from memory he had owned it for 19 years and had no plans to get rid of it.

[IainWR]

Is the Swing action a delightful piece of history or is it still regarded as a desireable action?

I used one to come 263rd in the World Champs two months back. My place had nothing to do with the gun and everyting to do with my (lack of) wind reading skills. I believe David Calvert (if Carlsberg made riflemen they would make Calverts) finished 14th using a Swing Mk 4.

Swing actions are good enough to win at the very highest level.

Iain

[ovenpaa]

Did Robert have anything to do with the Swing?

Robert where are you?? :lol:

[targetman]

Have just agreed the purchase of a very early Swing SIN71, I will post some pictures when I am able....

[Watcher]

Chaps,

As you know I'm looking to build up the Wikipedia page on the Swing (and any other iconic TRs if I can get the material). What I really need are nice photos. I'm no expert but what works for me is pictures taken outdoors in natural light. Perhaps with the use of flash to bring out the detail. Looking for close ups of the action and bolt; in particular any distinctive features such as locking lugs, logos and numbering (I disguise any actual numbers), action bearing lugs etc. White backgrounds are good because I can remove them with some picture software I have.

This is the sort of thing I'm doing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Rifles. Always happy for new material and any suggestions for improvements.

No rush or timescales; just a slow project to build up the store of knowledge.

TIA

Watcher (Matthew)

[targetman]

Just acquired what I think is an early Mk1 SWING SIN71, serial number is 68, minus sights and rather dirty. The barrel, a Shultz & Larsen looks to be very good. I think it will tidy up quite nicely. I will have to do some research to find out when it was built. In the ,eantime here are a couple of (not very good) photos.

[ovenpaa]

Nice find Targetman, and with what could well be the original S&L barrel as well, I will be interested to see how the work on it progresses

[Christel]

Please do keep us up to date

How is the barrel?

[R.G.C]

Did Robert have anything to do with the Swing?

Robert where are you?? :lol:

Sorry, Ovenpaa, I did not followed this thread....

The answer is NO!. I have made some modifications on my friend's Swings in terms of extraction and firing mechanism improvement, but became only involved on Jeremy Hakim's demand for the design of the Paeamount in 1989...

R.G.C

[tikkathreebarrels]

I still wonder if a SWiNG might form the basis of an F Classer but then I read somewhere - 'net nonsense possibly - that the RPA which is a kind of child of SWiNG isn't that suited to F Class because the number of bolt lugs cause a stiffness in bolt locking which can disturb the position of the rifle on a front rest.