Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles HELP... need help picking a 6.5

So left the jacksonville gun show today and saw lots of nice stuff. Have a tendancy toword the less popular cartridges. decided to get a 6.5 sweede. any suggestions on manufactuerers or actions to build a gun on?

thanks
david

If you can afford one - any model Sako. If you can find one - Tikka. CZ's could also be a candidate but they're heavy and I would recommend you handle the rifle and work the bolt before making a decision to buy the CZ.

i would just as soon buy/build one that i can keep for a while and hand down.just getting hooked on the older calibers and lately been shootin a 22 k-hornet, 300 H&H and a project 9.3x62

I'd look for a Winchester M70 Featherweight XTR if it was me.....

Start looking for a 6.5X55, you will be surprised at wheat turns up chambered for that cartridge. Some European built rifles also make it over here as well as custom rifles.

I wouldn't turn down a 6.5X57 or a 6.5X64 either.

The other thing to do is to find a likely rifle and rebarrel.

jim

A 96 Swede Mauser in good shape might just fill the bill too. If one leans toward hopping loads to the upper end though, he might stay away from the 96's

I'm just starting the stock finish for one I've been beavering away on.

Here's a link to the work in progress.

96 Swede stock work link

1minute...how many hours you got tied up in the stock? the work looks great. is that a custom bolt knob? it appears to be a factory military profile barrel, hows it shoot? may go back to gun show tomoro to see what i can find. would look nice next to the 1917 enfield in 9.3

No fleas on the 6.5's, a Swede '96 can be a sweet one. A Steyr in 6.5X57 will also make anyone a happy camper.

Chopped the barrel and had a butter knife bolt handle installed. It still has the factory barrel as it looks flawless. I've not shot it yet as the stock is not done and I haven't ordered the scope yet. Might do the scope tonight. Probably 60 hrs into the stock and it got its first sealing coat applied last night. I let hand rubbed layers dry for about a week between applications. With 15 to 18 coats needed to bring out some gloss, that's about how many weeks it will be until it's finished.

If it shoots well, I'll have someone here blue it up and put it to use.

Not sure the Swede is really 'less popular'. Certainly somewhat less common, although something like the 6.5x54 MS would be even more obscure.

If you like a Sako

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=278177378

If you like a Win 70

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=277834099

Alan

Sako or Winchester M70 FWT. I gad a few Sako AVs in 6.5x55 that were fantastic.

The one rifle I regret selling was a 6.5X55 AV. Did get twice what I piad for however.

Tikka or Sako - good luck in finding it - if you do PM me please.

in instances like this, why don't folks just get the action they want, put the stock and scope they want on top.. and then put any barrel on it, chambered in any caliber they desire with any contour and length...

myself, I'd do a Long Action Featherweight and chamber it in a 6.5 x 57... or if a short action featherweight, the 260 Rem...

and I recommend a 1 in 8 twist on a 6.5... not the usual 1 in 9 folks try to talk ya into...

MMMMM..OK I put the action first....A Controlled action feed using the magazine without a stupid claw to make extraction lumpy. Sako or Tikka.

ask the naggers at camp which ones they get dibs on.