LynnMassGuy
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Kinda looks like a Smith to me.
The Daewoos are back-The Daewoos are back!
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Walt Sherrill
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As best I can tell (which may not be very well), the DP-51 and DH-40 are loosely based on the S&W Model 59 design, with some added features, such as a hinged hammer. (Which allows that weird hammer-down single-action mode.)
What about parts availabilty? Can you get hi-caps? Are mags expensive? Any warrenty? DO you have to ship it to North or South Korea for repair?
Just kidding.
After you pay shipping and FFL, you are looking at about $300. There are a lot of decent used guns for $300. Is this worth a look or is it another RAP-401 type of nightmare?
Just kidding. After you pay shipping and FFL, you are looking at about $300. There are a lot of decent used guns for $300. Is this worth a look or is it another RAP-401 type of nightmare?
Diamondback
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I had no idea Daewoo made anything but cars. A friend of mine owned one for a short time........he had a problem with the engine constantly backfiring....sounded like a gun going off ! Now that I think about it I wonder if some of Daewoo's gun parts got mistakenly installed on his car. Do you suppose there is a Daewoo 9mm out there somewhere that deploys an air bag everytime you pull the trigger ??????
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Walt Sherrill
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Parts availability seems to be generally good -- when you need them. Most owners NEVER need them. (Gun Parts Corp has almost everything in their catalog and in inventory.)
I've had a couple of them for several years, and while I haven't shot them a lot, I've shot them enough to feel they're durable and reliable. I have no reason to think they'd be a problem.
Their reputation is a lot like a Timex watch -- just keeps on ticking.
(I've read of ONE story, posted here, about having problems with getting a part -- a pin -- and the original owner had a machine shop fabricate one for him. Nearly every other statement from an owner is that they don't break. But I'm sure there are exceptions.)
10-round mags are available from CDNN. The gun also uses S&W Model 59 series mags interchangeably -- which means that hi-caps are available at a very reasonable price. (They work in both the 9mm and .40 versions, but with the .40 guns, you have to open up the front of the mag a little to get good feeding.) There are also factory hi-caps available, but previously they were very rare; that may change now that the BAN has gone away (at least for a while.)
And you're right, there are a lot of $300 guns available. A used CZ might be a better buy, but the DaeWoo is a unique, innovative design. I like them.
(I also like Glocks, SIGs, CZs, and BHPs... and some 1911s. <grin>)
I've had a couple of them for several years, and while I haven't shot them a lot, I've shot them enough to feel they're durable and reliable. I have no reason to think they'd be a problem.
Their reputation is a lot like a Timex watch -- just keeps on ticking.
(I've read of ONE story, posted here, about having problems with getting a part -- a pin -- and the original owner had a machine shop fabricate one for him. Nearly every other statement from an owner is that they don't break. But I'm sure there are exceptions.)
10-round mags are available from CDNN. The gun also uses S&W Model 59 series mags interchangeably -- which means that hi-caps are available at a very reasonable price. (They work in both the 9mm and .40 versions, but with the .40 guns, you have to open up the front of the mag a little to get good feeding.) There are also factory hi-caps available, but previously they were very rare; that may change now that the BAN has gone away (at least for a while.)
And you're right, there are a lot of $300 guns available. A used CZ might be a better buy, but the DaeWoo is a unique, innovative design. I like them.
(I also like Glocks, SIGs, CZs, and BHPs... and some 1911s. <grin>)
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max popenker
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Daewoo is a huge corporation that makes some serious stuff, both civilian and military (see http://www.daewoo.com/business/special_english.html)
there are some other S.Korean maker who made somethin else but cars, for example the Hyndai, who also makes K1A1 main battle tanks
ceestand
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I don't know, my fiance and I rented a Daewoo (car) in Vegas and we loved it.
Came reeeal close to buying a DP51 this year, but turned back. Figured I'd save the money for something I really wanted, like an Astra A75 in .45 or another FN HPDA.
Came reeeal close to buying a DP51 this year, but turned back. Figured I'd save the money for something I really wanted, like an Astra A75 in .45 or another FN HPDA.
mfree
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I figured I'd pick on this thread since I know a thing or two I've got an '01 Daewoo Leganza that will hit 80,000 miles here in the next couple of weeks, fairly trouble free (never left me hangin', needed one trip to the garage, I drove it in). Car's built like a main battle tank, I've smashed a hotel sign (backing up, raining, night, flat-black signpost in the middle of a marked parking space), been rear-ended, my ex's POS S-10 fell out of gear AND the parking brake disengaged rolled downhill and nailed the passenger side tire and fender hard enough to shove the car sideways a foot, and only left a little dent...
I'm happy with it. I'm sure I'll be happy with a Daewoo DP-51 *when* I lay my hands on one (not if, *when*).
BTW, Daewoo's american lineup happened like this... Daewoo started under GM (with the Pontiac lemans, aka Daewoo Racer), broke free, bought Holden fam. II engines from Australia, Getrag transmissions (or GM Aisin for autos), licensed Lotus for suspension tuning, Giugiaro did the styling, and they assembled it all at home. Then their CEO pulled a Ken Lay, GM offered to bail them then held back the funds until Daewoo went bankrupt, then bought it for pennies, violated a still-legal contract with Daewoo Motors America to supply Daewoo branded cars (still in the courts AFAIK), took the new Lanos II model to be the Chevy Aveo, the Nubira and Leganza (with the new, very very spiffy transverse I-6 engine developed inhouse) and made them the Suzuki Forenza and Verona, and should next year be ganking yet another model, the nubira 5 door, as the Suzuki Reno.
It's like a big international corporate soap opera, I swear....
(sorry to hijack the thread)
I've got an '01 Daewoo Leganza that will hit 80,000 miles here in the next couple of weeks, fairly trouble free (never left me hangin', needed one trip to the garage, I drove it in). Car's built like a main battle tank, I've smashed a hotel sign (backing up, raining, night, flat-black signpost in the middle of a marked parking space), been rear-ended, my ex's POS S-10 fell out of gear AND the parking brake disengaged rolled downhill and nailed the passenger side tire and fender hard enough to shove the car sideways a foot, and only left a little dent...I'm happy with it. I'm sure I'll be happy with a Daewoo DP-51 *when* I lay my hands on one (not if, *when*).
BTW, Daewoo's american lineup happened like this... Daewoo started under GM (with the Pontiac lemans, aka Daewoo Racer), broke free, bought Holden fam. II engines from Australia, Getrag transmissions (or GM Aisin for autos), licensed Lotus for suspension tuning, Giugiaro did the styling, and they assembled it all at home. Then their CEO pulled a Ken Lay, GM offered to bail them then held back the funds until Daewoo went bankrupt, then bought it for pennies, violated a still-legal contract with Daewoo Motors America to supply Daewoo branded cars (still in the courts AFAIK), took the new Lanos II model to be the Chevy Aveo, the Nubira and Leganza (with the new, very very spiffy transverse I-6 engine developed inhouse) and made them the Suzuki Forenza and Verona, and should next year be ganking yet another model, the nubira 5 door, as the Suzuki Reno.
It's like a big international corporate soap opera, I swear....
(sorry to hijack the thread)
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