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H/T Personal Armament Podcast for the Max II video.Daewoo is a Korean company. If you are willing to be a bit off-beat and can obtain a DR-200 at a reasonable price, I’d say go for it. If you want something new or something with a large community of users, then the answer is no. So if you want a piston-driven rifle in 5.56 should you take a change on the Daewoo DR-200? Maybe. Moses with CMP Armory specializes in shortening the barrel, recrowning it, and then installing a flash hider. If you don’t want to do it yourself, most gunsmiths should be able to do the work. Methods include heating it with a MAPP torch to break the solder joint or using a Dremel tool and cold chisel. Because the barrel is already threaded, you have to be careful to remove the can without damaging the threads. Removing the existing can to put on a muzzle break or flash hider can be more involved. Replacing the thumbhole stock with either a folding stock like the Max II or an AR-type stock is relatively easy. If you are handy with tools, you can make most of the upgrades yourself. I can recommend both of them without reserve. I have dealt with Ace Ltd for a pistol grip and stock and with StorkWerkz for a stock adaptors.
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for stocks, CNC Warrior for replacement firing pins and gas plugs, for all sorts of replacement parts, and StormWerkz for scope mounts, stock adaptors, and handguard rails. Suppliers of spare parts and items with which to modify the DR-200 include Ace Ltd.
#DAEWOO DRT S810 HOW TO#
Many pictures and files have been posted over the years that give the Daewoo owner ideas on how to modify his or her DR-200. The leading experts and gunsmiths for the Daewoo are regular visitors to these forums. Two of the best forums to learn more about and to discuss the Daewoo rifles are the Woo-Files forum on and the Yahoo DR200 Group. They do show up on the auctions sites like with regularity. Prices for the Daewoo DR-200 in mint condition average in the $750 to $1000 range. Moreover, with the sunset of the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban, owners can now modify their Daewoo’s with American-made parts and keep it Sec. The unique features and reliability of the DR-200 combined with active Internet forums, gunsmiths, and specialty parts manufacturers have kept it alive. So you would think that a firearm without an importer, without ready access to spare parts, part of a class targeted by the gun controllers, and with an ugly stock would just fade away into oblivion, wouldn’t you? If so, you’d be wrong. The Max II was also named the AR-100 and DR-100. The video below illustrates the Daewoo Max II and its inner workings. The DR-200 and K1 use a 1 in 12 twist barrel. The K2, AR-100, DR-100, and Max II all have a 1 in 7 twist barrel. Unlike the AK-47, the bolt of the Daewoo attaches directly to the piston. It uses a rotating bolt that is similar in appearance that of the AR-15.
#DAEWOO DRT S810 FULL#
The selective-fire military versions used by the ROK Army and some other militaries, Peru for example, can be fired in semi-auto, 3-shot burst, and full auto. As a result, the Daewoo runs much cleaner. A 4-position gas regulating plug is at the end of the piston assembly. Where it starts to be more like the AK-47 is that it trades the direct gas impingement system of the AR for a long-stroke piston system that sits atop the barrel. The mag release and safety are similar to and in the same relative positions as the AR-15. It uses a charging handle similar to that of the FN-FAL except that it is on the right side of the receiver. The fire control group is interchangeable with the AR-15 though there are some variances in the full auto version. Like the AR-15, the Daewoo uses an aluminum upper and lower receiver that hinges with a front pivot-pin. It uses the NATO standard 5.56×45 cartridge and will accept most AR-15 magazines. The various Daewoo models are a unique combination of aspects of both the AR and the AK rifles. The new company S&T Daewoo took over production of small arms for the ROK Army. After the Daewoo chaebol was broken up because of political scandal and financial difficulties, parts of it were bought by S&T Holdings. Before there was the FN SCAR-L, the Bushmaster ACR, the Ruger SR556, or any of the other piston-driver AR-15 variants, there was the South Korean-made Daewoo K1 and K2 assault rifles and their semi-auto brethren, the AR-100/Max II/DR-100 and DR-200.Īdopted as the primary service rifle (K2) and carbine (K1) by the Republic of Korea (ROK) Army in 1987 to replace their American M-16A1’s, they were originally made by the South Korean chaebol Daewoo Industries’s subsidiary Daewoo Precision Industries, Ltd.