I'm sorry to differ with you, but I just don't agree. Certain Dakota's are very good and reliable rifles that delight their owners to no end. Personally, I've owned two Dakotas that were dogs, and I'll never own another one.

But the truth is, as I see it and in my experience, a Dakota is not in the same league by any stretch of the imagination with a true custom bolt gun made by a top America custom riflemaker. And there are even some guys, such as Roger Biesen, who produce a better rifle that Dakota does for about the same money as Dakota charges..........

Great custom rifles can't be mass-produced, or even semi-mass-produced............

AD.