Redheaded Stepchild of the Gun Safe: Daewoo DP-51

Bought as a companion piece to my Daewoo K1A1, the DP-51 was also an improvement over my Browning High-Power, whose itty-bitty safety was kinda difficult to manipulate in a hurry. It has the same 13+1 capacity that I might eventually use whenever I finally got around to trying IPSC. It even had a neat feature whereby you could rack a round into the chamber, then push the hammer forward, creating a condition almost cocked-and-locked which was better than the long, double-action trigger pull.

Well, the Daewoo didn't catch on in America, so finding a third and fourth magazine kinda necessary in playing gun games was next to impossible. T'was okay, because I hadn't found anyone to mentor me into practical shooting yet either so onto the stack it went. It was the first gun I ever openly packed in Arizona when I flew down for a visit and a camping trip with Jon. It rode in a nylon Uncle Mike's holster. I didn't know any better, but I learned a lot about steel and leather and polymer and freedom on this trip. This was also when I first got inspired to build BoG (Box o' Gun...see my archives). Unfortunately, I hadn't learned to stop buying bastard stepchildren yet.

Update: Note that all my Stepchildren came into the family before I started IPSC shooting. Now that I've been enjoying the sport since 1997, I've gathered around me Dear Devoted Children of the Revolver, Limited, and Limited 10 variety. I have no burning desire to get into Unlimited Race-Gun world...I like to wear foamies or ear muffs, not both. I might change my mind once my eye sight starts to fail and I eventually wipe the layers of dust off the Dillon Press.