Thread: Dakota calibres

Originally Posted by 30.06king

If you're looking, which calibre ? I may know of some but would have to check calibre / availability.

Probably 7mm but more of a general question as to availability and cost. Sounds like not great on either score.

Originally Posted by chainsaw

Probably 7mm but more of a general question as to availability and cost. Sounds like not great on either score.

@chainsaw I asked about the brass. It was 300 Dakota. But, already spoken for sorry.

Deadeye dicks may have some brass. They supported those cartridges for a time.

Yes Tracy has a Dakota

Dakota calibers are a bit like Lazzeroni and JDJ Wildcats.
They will get some small market share briefly and then be orphans that are hard to feed once the marketing machine moves on to the next big thing.

They do bring innovation and clearly catch people's attention.
But they also seem excessively expensive to own and feed.

I have a 330 Dakota built on a Ruger M77 ex 338 Win Mag. Back in the day I sent the whole rifle to a Gunsmith in the USA. He rebarreled it with a Lilja barrel and sent it back to me. No paperwork or permits required. Ah those were the days. It realistically doesn't do anything the good old 338 Win Mag couldn't. I have a mix of Dakota brass and reformed RWS .404 brass.

Thanks, no worries.

I had a 300 Dakota built on a. Weatherby action. With rl33 and 250gr atips in an 8t shilen I was at 2930fps. Was a super accurate rifle. Very cool cartridge in my opinion. Would have been a lot more popular if it ran a standard magnum bolt face.


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Rebate the brass rim a few thou to fit the std magnum boltface

Shooters been doing it for years

Doesn’t increase bolt thrust as the chamfer makes the brass face smaller than the total dia anyway

Saw a 7mm Dakota take out a trophy Fallow once, made my ears ring, shook the closer trees, created a minor earthquake and scared the f#%k out of every game animal between Cheviot and Kaikoura. The buck ran 80 yards and died, a 6.5 creedless would have done it better.

There is a few 7mm that were built in chch by a mate but the extreme price of the
Brass has put any new builds off last list price it was more then lapua factory 338 LM brass
When 338 was $5 each Dakota was $6-7 per case

I worked on a 7mm Dakota 6 months ago had to solder a bush into the bolt face and recut to suit
Standard magnum bolt face and ended up changing to 28 nosler

With bringing new line ups into precision hunter ammunition or
Bringing back old rounds like the weatherby it has made it harder to justify
$7 brass when of the shelf stuff does the same thing in a more universal way
If you get bored with the caliber

I've had a 7mm Dakota built off of a Remington 700 for years. Nice caliber - spits out 180gr pills at 3000fps plus no worries but brass is not available these days really. Fortunately, I stocked up at the time and am still working with 75 cases (10 plus firings) plus I have a 100 brand new, never fired Dakota cases. Enough in theory to last another 20 years at the rate I shoot things. Am thinking of trying something else though. If anyone is interested in either rifle or brass, send me a PM.

I visited the Dakota factory twice around the years 2000, a friend of mine in Sturgis knew the foreman over there.

Bruce Bertram in Aussie can make any amount of brass you want