Re: Dakota Arms?
I had one years ago and I know that A10xrifle (george) has one unless he sold it off when he bought his boat.
At any rate, the one I had functioned great but I could never get it to group better than 1" at 100 yards.
Everything about it was done well as I also had a few other Dakotas that were well made pieces.
If I recall correctly Marty of Badger Ordance helped with the design of the rifle and the initial build. He then left Dakota and the project and thats when the not so good stuff happened.
The longbow in my opinion is a great factory build concept that yieled ok results. Why, I don't know exactly. Was it QC at Dakota, was it design... I don't know nor will I speculate. All I know was that my gun was a 1" at best gun. For the price tag I paid I expected more. But this gun came out when it was unheard of to have a .338 built on a 700 and your options were limited as to others.
I think the Longbow has seen it's day, though if it could be had at the right price it may be worth the effort.
$5K is NOT the right price.
Opinions will very, this is just mine.
