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The Two Coolest New (Old) Rifles at SHOT Show

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Just got home after a week of SHOT Show antics and events and thought I would share my two favorite rifle stories from the event.

First, S&T Motiv Co. (formerly known as Daewoo Precision Industries) is operating in the U.S. and is importing 922-compliant rifles to include the K2S which will include a variety of OEM K2 parts and approximates the old Max I/II.

Compare to the old days:

Second, Palmetto and DSA are teaming up to craft an H&R-made T48.

As you may recall and we have covered in the past, the FAL gave the M14 a bit of competition in the early 1950s with (naturally) the Army’s Springfield Armory developed M14 getting the nod.

T48, Rifle, Caliber .30, T48 – with Gunner – Off-Hand Firing May 1955

H&R, a brand now owned by PSA and run by Mike of NoDak Spud fame, has one of the old T48s in their possession and is reverse engineering it for a limited run.

As a gun nerd, I’m super excited about both of these.

Pardon me, is that a Daewoo on Your Roof?

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South Korean carmaker Daewoo International, founded in 1967 by Kim Woo-Choong, a figure seen as something of the Henry Ford of Seoul, looked to diversify into other avenues of manufacturing in the 1970s. This led to a spin-off, Daewoo Precision Industries, which soon launched an effort to gen up a modern rifle/carbine that could replace both the license-produced M16A1 and WWII/1950s-vintage M3 Grease Guns, M1 Garands, and M1 Carbines in ROK service.

The effort, borrowing a little from just about every modern autoloading rifle that preceded it, resulted in the Daewoo K-series rifles, which were adopted in the early 80s. These interesting guns, which used a DGI system in its first generation before moving to an adjustable gas piston setup for the second, were imported in sporter format to the U.S. in two brief runs from 1984-89 and 1995-96, making them hard to find for black rifle collectors here in America.

But they are distinctive in every way.

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