Has anyone had personal experiences with the Dakota traveler. I already own a couple Dakotas so I am already a fan. But does the take down sytem work? Is it that much eaisier to travel? Do they function as well as the older Dakotas? Do you think all the changes at Dakota will effect product quality? Lots of questions?

Don Allen would always tell you to fire in a settling shot if possible after re-assembly. Outside if that I never heard a discouraging word about them. I have heard that the HS Precision rifle is also accurate but it near impossible to dis-assemble if it is hot. Let it cool a bit and it come right undone. I got this thru a fella that has several brands of take down type rifles.

i've got a friend that has one & he loves it. He is extremely nervous about traveling with anything that looks like a guncase & thats why he bought it. with the takedown he can get his gun into a suitcase & that makes him a happy camper. Incidently he has 2 elk over 400 pts with it.

Takedowns are a great idea. I went to Moz. last fall & just wanted to take one bag. I just took my M70/.404 apart & put it in a short case into the bottom of a Cabela's Alaskan bag. Everything was great until I went to trnsfer from JHB to Moz. SAA DOES NOT allow firearms to be packed in a bag w/ other stuff. I had to take the case out & send it separately, back to two bags. The same policy was in place for my trip home & in Atlanta I put it all back together.
No problems BTW in getting zero after putting it together, a check shot & I was off hunting. The Traveler or HS seem like a great idea for NA hunting, but when I go back to Africa, it will be (2) rifles in a TuffPack.

Being able to put your gun case in any car trunk or in bush plane with no problems is very handy and I wish I had a take-down just for that reason. What about a system for quick release receiver bolts? I would love to be able to take apart my CZ 550 by just a twist of the receiver bolts, take the barrelled action off the stock and put it into a short case. Couldn't a bolt with a cam at the head, sort of like the front wheel release on good bicycles, be adapted to rifles?

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Originally posted by fredj338:
SAA DOES NOT allow firearms to be packed in a bag w/ other stuff. I had to take the case out & send it separately, back to two bags.

So how have all these guys been carrying the TuffPak with all the other stuff in all this time. Sounds like you got ahold of idiot baggage checker or something.

It's Africa! It's ok to put stuff in your case, but not the rifle in a piece of luggage w/ stuff? Rifles must eb checked separately. I know, sounds stupid, but trying to argue the point w/ security was, well, pointless.