$1600-1900 just shows how out of control the market has gotten. The triple action mechanism is interesting, but there is nothing else extraordinary here. This should be a $600-$800ish gun realistically.
@@ParrotTactical bought both of mine in 1998 and if I remember correctly I paid 625 or so for both of them I’d have to get in the safe and look in the boxes one on the receipt for sure
Daewoo made a banger DVD player back in the day. it had the ability to change the pitch of whatever you were watching. god only knows why this was a feature, but it made movies way funnier lol
Could be wrong, but I know that karaoke is huge in Asia and having pitch control was a must. This way if you are a tenor, but the song was sung by a soprano, you could pitch down the song and vice versa. The DVD player might have been intended for users to play karaoke DVDs.
Here in Germany Daewoo is sadly only known for the very bland cars they pushed into the market in the nineties. Later GM took over Daewoo Motors and tried to push the still very bland cars into the european market as Chevrolets. Which hurt Chevrolets reputation pretty badly.
As a Korean American, I need to get a hold of one of these new Vulcans. The price is prohibitive, sure, but that doesn't sway my biased interest in the product. Thanks Ian for finally uploading a detailed video on it. Information on this pistol is somewhat limited.
I remember selling the DP-51 & 51C for $250 in my shop. Some aftermarket S&W mags required a little pinch on the bottom with channel locks to fit in the Daewoo mag well.
since Daewoo was one of the big south korean firms which got government assistance to get foreign experts and tooling to scale up production sometime in the 60's I think. I bet the Piano business was a sideproduct for government music schools because Daewoo was one of the few companies with good enough tooling to make them and they were already a government contractor.. might have been cheaper than for Koreans to import Pianos?
I love my DP51. I upgraded it with a bunch of lionheart parts when I messed up the slide...from my experience Lionheart has great customer service but their prices for new guns are too high for my budget.
My DP was a kimber import. Best thing ever made with Kimber stamped on it. That’s because Kimber didn’t manufacture it. Also 59xx mag gang. The Glawkmag boys before Glawk mags were a thing.
@@monotech20.14 They *used* to make high end guns. Once they got popular for that, they went way downmarket in their attempts to crank up volume to exploit their new found fame. Let's just say that of Kimbers I've seen in the last decade, more than 90 percent needed a gunsmith's attention to work properly in the long run.
I had a Lionheart LC9. They called it "Double Action Plus" in the marketing at the time, and it is a terrible gimmick. The sights on mine were also so off that to be zeroed at 7 yards required the rear sight to be halfway out of the dovetail. Like Ian said, the DA+ had you chamber a round then push the hammer forward. Not a control lever, the hammer itself. This gave you a trigger pull somewhere between a single and double action trigger. However, when pulling the trigger the hammer would reach a point where it would fly back into the SA position and cause the gun to jerk, all but guaranteeing a first round miss.
This video is funny cause the dp-51 was my parents bed side gun my whole life and the first gun i ever shot and i thought it was just something no one knew or cared about
There were pistols like this that had what I would call "configurable" safety systems that I never went in for. Another one was the Browning BDA. It was a cool looking gun that felt amazing in the hand but it had a screw slot adjustment on the back of the slide that made it possible to change the mode of the safety. I honestly forget what the options were but to me it was a bit too convoluted. As was the Daewoo pistol. But that is a preference issue. I prefer a double single with a simple decocker. I have both my CZs set up like this and the M9A4 I own is also decock only.
Para Ordnance came out with a very similar action on their LDA (Light Double Action). It seemed like a cool idea at the beginning of the 2000's, but I could never shoot it very well.
I remember shooting one of the triple-action pistols a long time ago. I thought it was kinda cool, but I've never had trouble with the double-to-single transition, so I memory-holed it until now. I'm pretty sure it was the original K5. I liked it but I didn't have the money for another pistol at the time.
The fictional Seburo M5 was a rotating barrel pistol in the Soviet 5.45×18mm cartridge. We know today that it's a wimpy cartridge roughly equivalent in performance to a .22 long rifle, but Shirow didn't know that at the time. Today he'd probably choose the FN 5.7x28 or the .22 TCM, both of which would do the job he envisioned for the Seburo better than the Soviet cartridge. That said, it does rather look like the M5 that Masamune Shirow conceived.
Early LH9s also had a different more 1911 commander style hammer, no indicator paint whatsoever, and old style Daewoo dovetail sights with a blacked out rear. They had a transition period where they sold an LH9N model updating the slides to using Novak cuts, which became the standard pretty quickly and I'm not entirely sure if the guns were ever explicitly marked with the N in the model code on the gun or not. When they first launched, Lionheart was a great company to work with as a small FFL, it's a shame their products are entirely unaffordable for most folks nowadays. Edit: I forgot there was also the original railed frame model, called the LH9 Mk II around the same time as the LH9N. Their catalog was a hot mess with LH9, LH9N, LH9C, LH9 MkII with all but the baseline LH9 available in black, patriot brown and sniper grey. At one point Lionheart discussed a similar strategy to IWI to bring in the K2 in some form with final manufacturing and assembly in Washington but that project fizzled and probably was abandoned when the company changed ownership (to the best of my knowledge)
My Dad had one (I think my Brother still has it) but it grouped like a shotgun. Which may in fact be that particular pistol and not representative of that model and brand. I haven't laid eyes on it in 20 years.
I just picked up a later Ultrastar model and it's a whole lot like my cz p-07. Because they are both derived from cz 75 but went to polymer 9mm da/sa guns. I think its neat that the Spanish Star company took "inspiration" from cz and went for the at the time modernization, just for cz to end up in the same boat 15 years later
When I was first getting into the hobby I had the LH9 on my To Buy list for the longest time. It never happened and now it’s hard to justify the price. They’re very neat, but I don’t know if I’ll ever have one.
Great video!👍 Some years ago, I bought a Lionheart LH9 MKII (marked as your second example but has a light rail) from a pawn shop because I was interested in the Triple Action. Picked up some S&W 59 mags, had a holster made, and it’s a decent 9mm setup. Sorry to hear they are now overpriced. I like mine.🙂
I like the H&K LEM fire control Kind of a similar mechanism but the hammer lowers itself so you can either ride the reset like a single action or have a super light double action just by letting go the whole way
Ian FWIW, a really really really minor point - here in the UK, we’ve had Daewoo cars imported for *years*, and from early on the Korean pronunciation that was ‘recommended’ (ig?) is Day-ooh, making the ‘w’ silent. It’s not really important, the words are perfectly understandable however you say it, just thought you might like some suggestion, such as it is🤓🤓
The DP51 is a damn good gun. Well made, shoots very good and the ergo's are great. And the tri action syatem is very cool.i ha e had offers well above it's worth for mine. Not selling.
About a decade ago, SNT Motiv stopped development of the K-2 series with the K-2C1 being the last variant. Basically improved the K2 by giving it picantinny rails for optics/attachments and a M4 style shoulder stock. After testing, the South Korean Military adopted the K-2C1 as the "modernized" replacement for the K-2. The trials for the replacement for the K-1A resulted in a stop gap adoption of a modernization kit (picantinny rail system with M4 style shoulder stock, similar to the K-2C1) for standard issue use and the adoption of the SNT Motiv STC-16 (K-13) for South Korean special operations use. The SNT Motiv STC-16 is "classified" (no one had been allowed to disassemble it and show it to the public), but its being described as the Korean version of a hybrid of the H&K HK416 and SIG MCX. The South Korean Military is currently trying to budget the K-13 as the eventually replacement for all of the K-1A carbines and K-2 rifles in active military service.
That price is...comical. My buddy has an original triple-action DH40 or whatever the .40 cal version was. While not a bad pistol...it's not a particularly good pistol either. Seeing one tarted up and asking nearly $2K shows...how lost the market is. You can buy a full-metal PDP competition mega pistol...or a dressed up Daewoo? Weird times....
now if they would make the Daewoo rifles.. K1, K2, K3 DR200.. gone but not forgotten.. lol took decades for mfg's to catch up to their mash-up of systems
So they take a pistol that changed hands 3 times due to financial reasons then new owners are trying to sell them for nearly 2k.. "bold strategy cotton, lets see if it pays off"
I was very interesed in the original lionheart when they started, i was looking at them to replace a sig p225, ive looked at them recently and had sticker shock
All hammer pistols should use this system. Unfortunately, few do. The same idea is implemented by H&K on the HK45 and it is bees knees. H&K did it a bit better, the hammer goes down on its own once you release the trigger.
There was a fun (maybe funny too) little apocrypha once widespread among grunts in the South Korean military. It says that the reason these pistols are issued to officers is to allow them to "Shoot themselves in case they get captured." No one knows where that came from and it's most likely just made up among the conscripted buddies.
Nice to see my service weapon's export versions. I got newer production s&t K5 and it has exactly same design as dp51 except changes in markings.. It's unfortunate that service weapons did't get those new features...
Weeb: "I bought a old military-service pistol!" Range Officer: "Colt, Beretta? Sig? Browning?" Weeb: "Nope, Daewoo." Range Officer: "Like the car?" Weeb: "Yup." Range Officer: "Get off my range." Funny how Daewoo firearms were able to outlive the reliability concerns considering their automobile industry. Who would want a Daewoo vehicle? Now cross that over to their firearms. Yikes! That said; they seems to be better. But $1600+ better? Uh, no. TBH: that triple-action is pretty slick! I didn't understand at first when Ian said to "push the hammer forward" to enable the 3rd mode. Now I know. Still seems complicated though compared to most modern striker-fired military service pistols.
Daewoo was a mega conglomerate with Daewoo Precision Industries being a subsidiary in that conglomerate. As a whole, Daewoo had been making firearms longer than they had been making vehicles. Daewoo Motors was the subsidiary that made cars and they initially were created with the help from Mitsubishi engineers, which is why the Daewoo cars first used engines made by Mitsubishi. Daewoo Heavy Industries was the subsidiary that made heavy vehicles (construction vehicles and armored military vehicles). They were separate from Daewoo Motors and were initially set up by German engineers.
The thumb rest protruding from the body side of the gun makes it a poor choice for CCW. I know not all guns need to carry guns but it’s not like it’s a target pistol and everything else about the gun seems like it’s meant to compete with CZs or a P229. It’s weird it doesn’t come with regular grips without a gas pedal.
I have a DP51 and a DP51C slide (which does fit on the DP51 frame). I wish I could track down one of the Lionheart LH9 MKIIs for the accessory rail. The new guns seem overbuilt and over priced
Daewoo made a lot of things - cars, guns, submarines, freezers, clothings, buildings, and more. It got disbanded after a big economic crisis in the 90s tho.
I’ve had 2 of the dp-51 and I love both of them bought them new in 1998 one is still new in the box the other has been carried since I bought It. They will shoot any ammo you want them to. Maybe 20 failures to feed it that whole time
None of those features really cost the manufacturer any significant amount of money. A fully featured gun from the manufacturer should be perhaps 9.1% more expensive not three times the cost
I've always thought the K5 looked like the love child of a S&W 59 and a Beretta 92. I'd seen a B-West imported K5 at a pawn shop, I wish I had the money at the time, as it was only $350-400 (this was around 2 years ago). Also, I know there's a market for tactical looking firearms, but those last three models looks atrocious.
I have a few friends in the ROK Army who use the K5 pistol and they all hate it. In practical terms, no one uses the triple action and it actually ruins the trigger feel in single and double action, seriously reducing the gun's accuracy. One of my friends said that when he first shot the K5, he thought the gun was jammed but the instructor told him to pull the trigger more and it fired at the very moment when feels like the trigger about to break.
ROK SOF wants to replace that pistol with Glock, but as we know, it is not easy to purchase a new foreign pistol in an environment where there are domestically produced 9mm pistols due to the nature of the military. SNT Motive recently gave up the triple action system and is trying to license-produce the CZ P10.
K5 in training camps are not that maintained well. I've got 2 jams during shooting 40 rounds.. after I deployed i've got almost factory new k5 and It's runs with out problems after. I think it's accuracy and handing is acceptable for support troops & tankers ect.. For SOF, I agree k5is not the answer
I wonder if it's the same phenomenon as US veterans thinking Beretta 92s suck because they've only shot poorly maintained ones that are older than them
@shinobi-no-bueno friend in ROKA SF who uses the newer K5 also doesn't like that gun. many operators in ROKA SF (SWC) dislike the K5's trigger. The accuracy problem I mentioned is a trigger problem, not a barrel problem.
I had a Daewoo dp51, I bought it for $180, sold it a couple years later for $250. Saw prices a while back because I wanted another and Jesus. Prices outta control.
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$1600-1900 just shows how out of control the market has gotten. The triple action mechanism is interesting, but there is nothing else extraordinary here. This should be a $600-$800ish gun realistically.
I bought a DH40 back in 2001 for $350.
Nah man, its a boutique gun made in small batches but in the US. You can do far worse like that. Its probably the cheapest! Lol
@@ParrotTactical bought both of mine in 1998 and if I remember correctly I paid 625 or so for both of them I’d have to get in the safe and look in the boxes one on the receipt for sure
I agree pricing should be $800/900 Although the Vulcan branded pistol is pretty sweet!
My old Browning BDM has a 3 action. Pretty cool
Dude I loved the lionheart when it came out for $399. Such a hipster gun with the “triple action” trigger. Wish the new ones didn’t cost 1k$ plus
Daewoo made a banger DVD player back in the day. it had the ability to change the pitch of whatever you were watching. god only knows why this was a feature, but it made movies way funnier lol
Could be wrong, but I know that karaoke is huge in Asia and having pitch control was a must. This way if you are a tenor, but the song was sung by a soprano, you could pitch down the song and vice versa. The DVD player might have been intended for users to play karaoke DVDs.
@@captaiawesome2260 that makes a lot of sense
@@captaiawesome2260 You are 100% correct.
Here in Germany Daewoo is sadly only known for the very bland cars they pushed into the market in the nineties.
Later GM took over Daewoo Motors and tried to push the still very bland cars into the european market as Chevrolets.
Which hurt Chevrolets reputation pretty badly.
Daewoo cars sucked hard.
As a Korean American, I need to get a hold of one of these new Vulcans. The price is prohibitive, sure, but that doesn't sway my biased interest in the product. Thanks Ian for finally uploading a detailed video on it. Information on this pistol is somewhat limited.
I just hope you won't need to defend any rooftops with it.
I find it fascinating that Ian has a DP51 in his personal collection, complete with a S&W replacement mag.
@@ecthelion83 model 59 mags
I remember selling the DP-51 & 51C for $250 in my shop. Some aftermarket S&W mags required a little pinch on the bottom with channel locks to fit in the Daewoo mag well.
"Our handguns are not to your liking? Maybe our line of pianos might interest you. "
'If you purchase this grand piano, we'll throw in a free handgun...'
since Daewoo was one of the big south korean firms which got government assistance to get foreign experts and tooling to scale up production sometime in the 60's I think. I bet the Piano business was a sideproduct for government music schools because Daewoo was one of the few companies with good enough tooling to make them and they were already a government contractor.. might have been cheaper than for Koreans to import Pianos?
Lionhardt should try and get us some new k2 rifles that would be awesome.
Yes
I remember the Daewoo DP51 Compact back in the Early 90s (90-91)..had them in my hand but never was able to fire it..... Fantastic Video Ian!!
I work for the newest owners father-in-law. Gun feels nice in the hand. Also Mr. Ian, Winder is pronounced as whine-der.
I love my DP51. I upgraded it with a bunch of lionheart parts when I messed up the slide...from my experience Lionheart has great customer service but their prices for new guns are too high for my budget.
My DP was a kimber import. Best thing ever made with Kimber stamped on it. That’s because Kimber didn’t manufacture it.
Also 59xx mag gang. The Glawkmag boys before Glawk mags were a thing.
I thought Kimber made high end guns? Doesn't LA detectives SIS use their .45s?
All the Daewoo's I had in the shop came from Century Arms. They carried them in the catalog for many years.
Kimber *used to* make good guns before Ron Cohen took over…funny how that’s happening at SIG now too…
@@monotech20.14 Kimber makes guns, that much we know for sure. "High end" is debatable.
@@monotech20.14 They *used* to make high end guns. Once they got popular for that, they went way downmarket in their attempts to crank up volume to exploit their new found fame. Let's just say that of Kimbers I've seen in the last decade, more than 90 percent needed a gunsmith's attention to work properly in the long run.
I picked up a DP51 a couple of years ago. It is an interesting gun.
I had a Lionheart LC9. They called it "Double Action Plus" in the marketing at the time, and it is a terrible gimmick. The sights on mine were also so off that to be zeroed at 7 yards required the rear sight to be halfway out of the dovetail.
Like Ian said, the DA+ had you chamber a round then push the hammer forward. Not a control lever, the hammer itself. This gave you a trigger pull somewhere between a single and double action trigger. However, when pulling the trigger the hammer would reach a point where it would fly back into the SA position and cause the gun to jerk, all but guaranteeing a first round miss.
This video is funny cause the dp-51 was my parents bed side gun my whole life and the first gun i ever shot and i thought it was just something no one knew or cared about
There were pistols like this that had what I would call "configurable" safety systems that I never went in for. Another one was the Browning BDA. It was a cool looking gun that felt amazing in the hand but it had a screw slot adjustment on the back of the slide that made it possible to change the mode of the safety. I honestly forget what the options were but to me it was a bit too convoluted. As was the Daewoo pistol. But that is a preference issue. I prefer a double single with a simple decocker. I have both my CZs set up like this and the M9A4 I own is also decock only.
Para Ordnance came out with a very similar action on their LDA (Light Double Action). It seemed like a cool idea at the beginning of the 2000's, but I could never shoot it very well.
Wow a p220 beretta 92 thing. I want it
I remember shooting one of the triple-action pistols a long time ago. I thought it was kinda cool, but I've never had trouble with the double-to-single transition, so I memory-holed it until now. I'm pretty sure it was the original K5. I liked it but I didn't have the money for another pistol at the time.
I came very close to buying a DP51. It fitted my hand so well it pointed spot on and I could have hit targets without the sights...
What kept you?
now we need someone to hook Ian up with a DPI Piano for a April 1st video
I'm getting Ghost in the Shell vibes. Reminds me of the Seburo M-5 and M-10.
The fictional Seburo M5 was a rotating barrel pistol in the Soviet 5.45×18mm cartridge. We know today that it's a wimpy cartridge roughly equivalent in performance to a .22 long rifle, but Shirow didn't know that at the time. Today he'd probably choose the FN 5.7x28 or the .22 TCM, both of which would do the job he envisioned for the Seburo better than the Soviet cartridge. That said, it does rather look like the M5 that Masamune Shirow conceived.
Early LH9s also had a different more 1911 commander style hammer, no indicator paint whatsoever, and old style Daewoo dovetail sights with a blacked out rear. They had a transition period where they sold an LH9N model updating the slides to using Novak cuts, which became the standard pretty quickly and I'm not entirely sure if the guns were ever explicitly marked with the N in the model code on the gun or not. When they first launched, Lionheart was a great company to work with as a small FFL, it's a shame their products are entirely unaffordable for most folks nowadays.
Edit: I forgot there was also the original railed frame model, called the LH9 Mk II around the same time as the LH9N. Their catalog was a hot mess with LH9, LH9N, LH9C, LH9 MkII with all but the baseline LH9 available in black, patriot brown and sniper grey. At one point Lionheart discussed a similar strategy to IWI to bring in the K2 in some form with final manufacturing and assembly in Washington but that project fizzled and probably was abandoned when the company changed ownership (to the best of my knowledge)
You should look at the 90s Star firestar series of pistols.
My Dad had one (I think my Brother still has it) but it grouped like a shotgun. Which may in fact be that particular pistol and not representative of that model and brand. I haven't laid eyes on it in 20 years.
I just picked up a later Ultrastar model and it's a whole lot like my cz p-07. Because they are both derived from cz 75 but went to polymer 9mm da/sa guns. I think its neat that the Spanish Star company took "inspiration" from cz and went for the at the time modernization, just for cz to end up in the same boat 15 years later
I fuckin love the k5
The Ian McCollum Lionheart signature model. They should have you test and keep it.
I have the DH40 and it's my EDC. I didn't know they made a 9mm.
오, K5 청소만 했는데 ㅋㅋㅋ
i was hoping to see this gun here
Top view mate love the new one. Looks nice.
"Lionheart Vulcan-9" is a seriously metal name.
3:15
It gets some really good firearms from that style of design... But also the Mamba.
New Video, yeah 😊
The first DP51 looks identical to the S&W 669, with a different finish. Ok, different safety. The 669 also fits the S&W 59 magazines.
In the 90's you could have a Daewoo pistol to go with your Daewoo car.
And a line of Daewoo appliances for your home
Daewoo doing front slide serrations in the late 90s just goes to show you how behind Glock is.
Mom, can we have 5906?
“We have 5906 at home”
DP51- the 5906 at home
When I was first getting into the hobby I had the LH9 on my To Buy list for the longest time. It never happened and now it’s hard to justify the price. They’re very neat, but I don’t know if I’ll ever have one.
Dig that shirt Ian!
Great video!👍 Some years ago, I bought a Lionheart LH9 MKII (marked as your second example but has a light rail) from a pawn shop because I was interested in the Triple Action. Picked up some S&W 59 mags, had a holster made, and it’s a decent 9mm setup. Sorry to hear they are now overpriced. I like mine.🙂
I think I like the second generation the best. Good video.
I like the H&K LEM fire control
Kind of a similar mechanism but the hammer lowers itself so you can either ride the reset like a single action or have a super light double action just by letting go the whole way
Love to see a member of the ROK get their hands on the Vulcan 9 and hear their thoughts.
If you like the trigger system on these pistols and have Browning HP or 1911, then check out the SFS system from BH Spring Systems
Ian FWIW, a really really really minor point - here in the UK, we’ve had Daewoo cars imported for *years*, and from early on the Korean pronunciation that was ‘recommended’ (ig?) is Day-ooh, making the ‘w’ silent. It’s not really important, the words are perfectly understandable however you say it, just thought you might like some suggestion, such as it is🤓🤓
The DP51 is a damn good gun. Well made, shoots very good and the ergo's are great. And the tri action syatem is very cool.i ha e had offers well above it's worth for mine. Not selling.
If I'm being honest I like the DP51 and LH9C better than the other 2.
Can the new ones still use S&W 59 mags?
I have the LH9 MKII, and brought it to the 2018 desert brutality.
Why hasn't anyone taken up importing/ building the Daewoo rifles?
Because there is not much market for a modern service rifle that has proprietary parts, can't attach any accessories, and can barely attach optics.
@@ForgottenWeapons You say that...but look where the AK market has gone 😉
About a decade ago, SNT Motiv stopped development of the K-2 series with the K-2C1 being the last variant. Basically improved the K2 by giving it picantinny rails for optics/attachments and a M4 style shoulder stock.
After testing, the South Korean Military adopted the K-2C1 as the "modernized" replacement for the K-2.
The trials for the replacement for the K-1A resulted in a stop gap adoption of a modernization kit (picantinny rail system with M4 style shoulder stock, similar to the K-2C1) for standard issue use and the adoption of the SNT Motiv STC-16 (K-13) for South Korean special operations use.
The SNT Motiv STC-16 is "classified" (no one had been allowed to disassemble it and show it to the public), but its being described as the Korean version of a hybrid of the H&K HK416 and SIG MCX.
The South Korean Military is currently trying to budget the K-13 as the eventually replacement for all of the K-1A carbines and K-2 rifles in active military service.
That price is...comical. My buddy has an original triple-action DH40 or whatever the .40 cal version was. While not a bad pistol...it's not a particularly good pistol either. Seeing one tarted up and asking nearly $2K shows...how lost the market is. You can buy a full-metal PDP competition mega pistol...or a dressed up Daewoo? Weird times....
BRRRRAPP VRRROO Forgotten Weaponeers!
Nice
now if they would make the Daewoo rifles.. K1, K2, K3 DR200.. gone but not forgotten.. lol took decades for mfg's to catch up to their mash-up of systems
Swanky indeed
So they take a pistol that changed hands 3 times due to financial reasons then new owners are trying to sell them for nearly 2k.. "bold strategy cotton, lets see if it pays off"
It looks like the Korean designers asked the military whether they wanted a Sig Clone or a Beretta clone and the military said Yes
looks more like an 70s-90s era S&W than a Beretta.
The kiddos don't know that smith numbers guns @@colbunkmust
I was very interesed in the original lionheart when they started, i was looking at them to replace a sig p225, ive looked at them recently and had sticker shock
All hammer pistols should use this system. Unfortunately, few do. The same idea is implemented by H&K on the HK45 and it is bees knees.
H&K did it a bit better, the hammer goes down on its own once you release the trigger.
There was a fun (maybe funny too) little apocrypha once widespread among grunts in the South Korean military. It says that the reason these pistols are issued to officers is to allow them to "Shoot themselves in case they get captured." No one knows where that came from and it's most likely just made up among the conscripted buddies.
Nice to see my service weapon's export versions. I got newer production s&t K5 and it has exactly same design as dp51 except changes in markings..
It's unfortunate that service weapons did't get those new features...
Dang it!! Why can I only hit the like button once???
Fricking early gang checking in.
Howdy
Beat me to it! 🤣
They make cars that cost less than that last one😅. Final form was a very nice pistol. take it to the range
Weeb: "I bought a old military-service pistol!"
Range Officer: "Colt, Beretta? Sig? Browning?"
Weeb: "Nope, Daewoo."
Range Officer: "Like the car?"
Weeb: "Yup."
Range Officer: "Get off my range."
Funny how Daewoo firearms were able to outlive the reliability concerns considering their automobile industry. Who would want a Daewoo vehicle? Now cross that over to their firearms. Yikes! That said; they seems to be better. But $1600+ better? Uh, no.
TBH: that triple-action is pretty slick! I didn't understand at first when Ian said to "push the hammer forward" to enable the 3rd mode. Now I know. Still seems complicated though compared to most modern striker-fired military service pistols.
Daewoo was a mega conglomerate with Daewoo Precision Industries being a subsidiary in that conglomerate.
As a whole, Daewoo had been making firearms longer than they had been making vehicles.
Daewoo Motors was the subsidiary that made cars and they initially were created with the help from Mitsubishi engineers, which is why the Daewoo cars first used engines made by Mitsubishi.
Daewoo Heavy Industries was the subsidiary that made heavy vehicles (construction vehicles and armored military vehicles). They were separate from Daewoo Motors and were initially set up by German engineers.
Rooftop flashbacks ))
It's not ambidextrous until it has gas pedals on both sides!
DAEWOOO🗣️😎BOUNCE🗣️
Wait, can you install both gas pedals at the same time? Does this make you shoot... twice as fast??!?!?
"The cool kids are calling the extended grip a "gas pedal". I prefer a pistol with cruise control.
Triple action is such a _Hipster_ feature. 🤓
$1600 for a K5 is ridiculous. This is basically a Korean TT-33.
Any q&a coming soon? Or they on patreon only these days ?
Have you seen the BH Spring Solutions trigger, it is very similar?
Aluminum or steel frame ? That's the big question
I remember these being cheap as dirt when Century was importing them in the late 1990s
The thumb rest protruding from the body side of the gun makes it a poor choice for CCW. I know not all guns need to carry guns but it’s not like it’s a target pistol and everything else about the gun seems like it’s meant to compete with CZs or a P229. It’s weird it doesn’t come with regular grips without a gas pedal.
They should have got the guy who styled their guns to style their cars: They were horrific looking!😂
I have a DP51 and a DP51C slide (which does fit on the DP51 frame). I wish I could track down one of the Lionheart LH9 MKIIs for the accessory rail. The new guns seem overbuilt and over priced
Correct me if I'm wrong, but locking-ring guns tend to be thinner than those locked by the hood of the chamber, aren't they?
I wonder if this is the same organization (Daewoo) that used to make cars in the US.
It was en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daewoo
Daewoo made a lot of things - cars, guns, submarines, freezers, clothings, buildings, and more. It got disbanded after a big economic crisis in the 90s tho.
Yes Daewoo became GM Korea. The Chevy Spark was a Korean car.
I’ve had 2 of the dp-51 and I love both of them bought them new in 1998 one is still new in the box the other has been carried since I bought It. They will shoot any ammo you want them to. Maybe 20 failures to feed it that whole time
Likewise, bought mine in the 90's, love it and it's on my _will not sell, ever_ list.
But can you put the Vulcan gas pedal grips on the original?
Locking lugs remind me of a tokarev
I sell/service Daewoo forklifts in my industry, I wonder if I can ask them to throw a pistol onto the next shipment
None of those features really cost the manufacturer any significant amount of money. A fully featured gun from the manufacturer should be perhaps 9.1% more expensive not three times the cost
Heavy, long pull...light, short pull...or light, long pull. Yeah, I don't see the advantage.
I've always thought the K5 looked like the love child of a S&W 59 and a Beretta 92. I'd seen a B-West imported K5 at a pawn shop, I wish I had the money at the time, as it was only $350-400 (this was around 2 years ago). Also, I know there's a market for tactical looking firearms, but those last three models looks atrocious.
Nothing was mentioned on whether it can be cocked and locked like a 1911. Can this oistol do that?
Yes.
The Double Penetration 51. Yeah buddy!
Can someone please arrange for Ian to get the correct Daewoo mag for his DP51? Thanks. :P
Off topic but can we see what you carry and what rig you use ?
I carry a P7 in a Phlster City Special.
@@ForgottenWeapons H&K? How?
I have a few friends in the ROK Army who use the K5 pistol and they all hate it. In practical terms, no one uses the triple action and it actually ruins the trigger feel in single and double action, seriously reducing the gun's accuracy. One of my friends said that when he first shot the K5, he thought the gun was jammed but the instructor told him to pull the trigger more and it fired at the very moment when feels like the trigger about to break.
ROK SOF wants to replace that pistol with Glock, but as we know, it is not easy to purchase a new foreign pistol in an environment where there are domestically produced 9mm pistols due to the nature of the military. SNT Motive recently gave up the triple action system and is trying to license-produce the CZ P10.
K5 in training camps are not that maintained well. I've got 2 jams during shooting 40 rounds.. after I deployed i've got almost factory new k5 and It's runs with out problems after. I think it's accuracy and handing is acceptable for support troops & tankers ect..
For SOF, I agree k5is not the answer
I wonder if it's the same phenomenon as US veterans thinking Beretta 92s suck because they've only shot poorly maintained ones that are older than them
@shinobi-no-bueno friend in ROKA SF who uses the newer K5 also doesn't like that gun. many operators in ROKA SF (SWC) dislike the K5's trigger. The accuracy problem I mentioned is a trigger problem, not a barrel problem.
Thank you Ian, I couldn’t find magazines for mine now I know what to look for.
Did he say small arms & pianos?
The woo to me screams sig back, 1911 front
I'm not sure othias would like that use of triple action.
Is this a re-upload or am i having the biggest psychotic break ever
You forgot to take your meds
Take ur meds unc
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I still remember the first time I saw the DP51 at a store here in the metro ATL area. Must have been 1992...such a cool firearm.
Court it early
I had a Daewoo dp51, I bought it for $180, sold it a couple years later for $250. Saw prices a while back because I wanted another and Jesus. Prices outta control.