I just checked the Jerry's website, and while I don't hold an FFL, I have kept my account with Jerry's and still order non-firearm items. As long as it is not a reciever or a firearm, I can order. I can order blackpowder weapons as they are not currently FFL required items.
Anyway, Jerry's shopping request page let me know that I could find every rifle I listed EXCEPT the Winchester. I assume they were available b/c when I requested the Winchester it clearly listed it as unavailable, but the other models came up as able to be added to the cart. Granted, I had requested the search for ALL of Jerry's locations and affiliates, which is a lot of inventory.... but they were there. It doesn't allow one to identify exactly how many of these rifles were on the shelves. Probably not many at all.....b/c they don't move.........but they are there....at least 1 of each.
This doesn't prove anything except that you can get 6.5 x 55 rifles in a modern configuration. Maybe I'm confused on how the Jerry's site works, but that is what I found while trying to locate 6.5 swede's. Maybe the Winchester isn't even offered by the manufacturer and so it was identified as "unavailable" while the others are still offered by the manufaturer and therefore still in the catalog ...... perhaps if I had taken it to "checkout" I would have come up empty. I don't know...... and if anybody knows how I could double check that at Jerry's I'd appreciate hearing about it as I would certainly be able to use that function when actually ordering the other itmes I do purchase there.
boltman, I'll have to agree and concede that folks can find a wider variety of .260's than Swede's....and in greater #'s......but the Swede shooting modern rifles are available....even if in smaller #'s.......mostly b/c nobody is buying them.
For the average Joe I'd advise the .260 also................
but I own 6 swede's in various configuarations.............so I'll keep shooting those for now.
The 6.5 x 55 certainly appears to have more case capacity than the .260 but that can be deceiving. Anybody know the actual case capacitiy's and safe hottest loads for these 2 rounds in modern rifles?