Daewoo K2 Rifles still coming...

[sigstroker]

I suspect $1,800 advertised MSRP but the reality will be 'on sale' for $1,399 to $1,499 like so many other similar rifles in .223/5.56x45 released.

Now if the 11% hostile Anti-2nd Amendment spite King Gavin Tea Tax goes away, I'd bite at that $1,499.

They will go fast and go out of production just as fast. I can always get plenty of more money but it's harder to get something no longer made - and after that happens, and you might want one, the asking price is $3,000 just a few years later.

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I'd better buy 2 or 3 then.

[bonesurf]

great rifle the DR200. this one has an aftermarket grip and stock, the stormwerkz 1913 stock conversion piece and one of the rails (MITS) the newer K2s are using in Korea (there are many) for the legacy rifles that have that old style sight. it was originally a thumbhole stock rifle.

piston system. not particularly different from the Sig Spear. very clean running.

only issue is that the barrel is 1/10 so really only spins 55gr well. and no the lower has zero relationship to an AR except that it uses stanag mags

hoping that with part kits being released/coming that barrels with tighter spin rates will be available. once upon a time there was a group buy on them but I missed out

[bonesurf]

Thirty or so years ago in South Korea one would sometimes see ROK troops equipped with a K2 out in public areas, like on a bus or on a train. For example, I saw a man who had been inducted riding his bicycle on a country road, with his K2 slung over the handlebars. A Korean friend explained that the ammunition is so carefully and strictly controlled that they had no concerns; effectively, "go ahead and ride around with your rifle," because you can't get any ammo.

The K2 is like a rifle the Romans might have made, borrowed designs from the US M16, the AK47, and so on. Would that we could purchase them here in CA. Maybe in five to ten years?

you see the same thing in Switzerland and Israel and various other countries in terms of "off duty" soldiers wandering around with their rifles. but yeah in terms of ammo control, it's STRICTLY controlled in Korea.