Some good news, and some bad news on the 6.5 Swede front.
The good news is that my XS Sight Systems "ghost ring" aperture rear and white line front sights arrived a couple of days ago. I spent an afternoon at the range to get them zeroed for 150 yards, and found out this little rifle wants to shoot. Even with these coarse sights, it's already shooting 1.5 M.O.A. with no load development beyond pressure and velocity work. Here is a shot of what the sights look like:
The bad news is, the world is out of 160 grain .264" diameter bullets. Sierra has discontinued theirs. Hornady still lists them, but no one has them. I'm told they are still playing catch-up on bullet production, which means they are cranking out the .308", .270", .284", .224", and other such mundane, everyday stuff at full capacity. The oddball stuff is going to be awhile. .264" 160 grainers are about as "oddball" as they get...
I did find some Lapua 155 grain round nose, and ordered a couple of boxes, so hopefully those will shoot well. There are plenty of match bullets out there, as the 6.5 Creedmoor is the new Highpower darling, and there are plenty of 120 and 140 grain spitzers for hunting. I expressed my thoughts on those in my opening post. I'll shoot 140's as an absolute last resort, but if these Lapuas shoot, I won't have to. We'll see.