I think I need an avatar ,

...This is what I'd have used:

That looks like a pretty shifty character there.... Chris S

Too lite to trip the trap
 

Danged computers. It looks like admin was able to tap into my Photobucket account and get access to my family album. The dude in the yellow is my twin brother "countrygoof" He's OK as long as you don't use the word "Cucamonga" around him. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     

I think the JW rig and sixgun look pretty good, I'd stick with that. Chris S

But I see you have some of those rifles with the backwards bolt. Remington must have seen one of those French infantry rifles from the 30's. However, it's all offset by that nice Savage 99.
By the way, Wednesday is a bad day to order the special at the Boiling Point in Olive Branch, Mississippi:

Don't ask me how I know.

Mike

Those backwards bolt guns might be for people who can't see ahead. I ain't never been to a seafood oyster bar, what do they serve? Chris S

Well Those backwards things have been kind of a good luck charm for me.  I tried to get one for years with no joy and then all three variations, one of them a real collector's item, just fell into my lap within about 18 months.

I wasn't sayin you wasn't looking forward, just maybe who designed them things. I'm glad your collection is filling in. Chris S

The funny bolt let them put the action further back in the stock making the rifle more compact

Don't get your hand stuck in the action. "Never fired. Only dropped once". Sorry. I shouldn't be so crude. My favorite rifle cartridge, 7X61 Sharpe & Hart, was developed from an experimental French cartridge. But, I've never dropped it.
I think the 600's and 660's would have been a lot better looking if the forearms had been shorter. I love the 6.5 mm bore size, too. But in 6.5 X 54 MS.

Mike

I have spent a good amount of time now and then looking for a 600 action or a gun with a ruined barrel, to rebarrel in .260 Remington or the newer Creedmore version. I too am a 6.5 fan. I have a set of dies and a Savage 110 for a 6.5-06 project and have a Norwegian Krag that was "Bubba'ed" beyond restoration that I picked up for spare change at a garage sale that I want to "Scout" rifle.

The cartridge is easy to load and can do very well as a varminter with 85 gr. bullets at about 3300. I had one made up with a 26" medium weight barrel. Works great on prairie dogs and coyotes. I have another one in a small. light full-stock carbine with cocking piece peep that is really the cat's meow for stalking the woods for deer. No failures with the sierra 120 spitzer.
Mike

.......but never got around to building one... Don't know why, lazy I guess or had other projects going on and forgot about it. Chris S

that the 6.5X06 would be too large a cartridge for the 6,5 bore. From my reading, the 6.5X55 is probably optimum. But, I'm still happy with the MS. I have made gaboodles of long range, one-shot kills with it on rockchucks (a hardy breed) in Montana. The 87 and 100 gr. pills work for all manner of varmints, and the 120 is really impressive on deer, whitetail or mulie.
Mike

I never did it so I will never know but I did almost buy a Swede 6.5 one time! Chris S

One might look at the 6.5-06 as being underbore, but then so would the 25-06 be. If one is a velocity follower (which the 6.5 doesn't really need) the 06 case give the possibility. The .308 case and the original Swede have almost identical case capacity, the 06 just has more of it and 06 cases are easier to get and work with. I do reload the Swede but I feel better working the heavier bullets in the 06 case. If I had to push a 160 gn up to elk level I'd rather have the Springfield case behind it. I would have not qualms about using it but want to give it all the help I can.
The 6.5 has always shined for me with the heavies at a good velocity because of the sectional density and ballistic coefficient which allow the round to be very efficient and stable. In the small, light bullets it gives up a lot of it's intrinsic advantages. a .26 cal bullet of a given light weight and velocity won't do that much more than a .25 at the same specs. When you get down to 120 grains and less the 6.5 performs like any other sub-.30 at the same, or close, weight and velocity.