Offering this with very mixed emotions. My wife is saying keep it, but I just spent a chunk on some major work on our house. This is a drop in the bucket, but the third and most recent .338 in the safe, so the easiest to let go. Also please see my other listing for a beautiful Heym Martini .416 Rigby.
This is a custom built .330 Dakota built on an early Montana Rifle Company receiver. There are no maker’s marks, but it is well done. The checkering is well executed. The stock shape is very similar to the pre-64 Model 70 post-war Supergrade stock. I say that based on shooting a 1949 Model 70 .270 in a Supergrade stock as my main rifle for thirty years. They feel very similar. The barrel is a bit heavier profile, which helps add a bit of weight to tame a big .338. The LOP is 13 5/8”. Weight is 10 1/4 #.
The .330 Dakota has a bit more case capacity than a .338 Win Mag, but less than a .338 Lapua or .338 RUM. .330 Dakota was one of the most popular chamberings when Dakota Arms was its own company. So there are lots of beautiful Dakota rifles rifles floating around with a severe lack of ammo and brass. This rifle comes with 80 rounds of factory ammo from Dakota Arms with correct headstamp loaded with the Barnes TSX 250 grain. Velocity was advertised as 2900, which seems optimistic to me, but I have not shot it and clocked it. 60 pieces of brass also are included. So 140 pieces of brass, ammo, and dies are included. That will last a very long time for a rifle like this. I will not separate the ammo, brass, and dies unless someone buys the rifle and does not want the ammo and brass.
The rifle is in excellent condition. The receiver is turning to a plum color. There is some odd indention snail trail pattern on the top of the cheekpiece, probably from riding in a soft side gun case or a safe and rubbing against some other bolt knob. Tried to capture it. I got a smoking great deal on the rifle and a horrifically terrible deal on the ammo, brass, and dies. So it evens out to a good deal for the package for a beautiful and well built custom .338. No extra charge for the Weaver scope that came with it.
$3950 shipped FFL to FFL. Face to face in Texas with a current LTC.
This is a custom built .330 Dakota built on an early Montana Rifle Company receiver. There are no maker’s marks, but it is well done. The checkering is well executed. The stock shape is very similar to the pre-64 Model 70 post-war Supergrade stock. I say that based on shooting a 1949 Model 70 .270 in a Supergrade stock as my main rifle for thirty years. They feel very similar. The barrel is a bit heavier profile, which helps add a bit of weight to tame a big .338. The LOP is 13 5/8”. Weight is 10 1/4 #.
The .330 Dakota has a bit more case capacity than a .338 Win Mag, but less than a .338 Lapua or .338 RUM. .330 Dakota was one of the most popular chamberings when Dakota Arms was its own company. So there are lots of beautiful Dakota rifles rifles floating around with a severe lack of ammo and brass. This rifle comes with 80 rounds of factory ammo from Dakota Arms with correct headstamp loaded with the Barnes TSX 250 grain. Velocity was advertised as 2900, which seems optimistic to me, but I have not shot it and clocked it. 60 pieces of brass also are included. So 140 pieces of brass, ammo, and dies are included. That will last a very long time for a rifle like this. I will not separate the ammo, brass, and dies unless someone buys the rifle and does not want the ammo and brass.
The rifle is in excellent condition. The receiver is turning to a plum color. There is some odd indention snail trail pattern on the top of the cheekpiece, probably from riding in a soft side gun case or a safe and rubbing against some other bolt knob. Tried to capture it. I got a smoking great deal on the rifle and a horrifically terrible deal on the ammo, brass, and dies. So it evens out to a good deal for the package for a beautiful and well built custom .338. No extra charge for the Weaver scope that came with it.
$3950 shipped FFL to FFL. Face to face in Texas with a current LTC.
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