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david cunningham · Joined: Mar 19 2014 Posts: 10

where can i find information on the Koren 99 conversion?

i have conflicting information on finish and markings.

gwsiii · Joined: Aug 21 2003 Posts: 2240 Location: Hayden, AL

The finish is usually a flat phosphate finish, most feel like matching or mummed specimens are suspect. The receiver should be notched. The mag box extended. Lots of little things that are hard to describe. markings are US CAL 30 some have dots some don't. hard to speculate on. I personally think there are a lot more out there than first thought.
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gwsiii · Joined: Aug 21 2003 Posts: 2240 Location: Hayden, AL

Couple of threads on the subject:
US CL 30 Thread One

US CL 30 Thread Two
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david cunningham · Joined: Mar 19 2014 Posts: 10

other things i have been told
only barrels re finished not receivers
only chrome bores
all new barrels not just re-chambered original barrels
all metal parked
green park like 1903a3

gwsiii · Joined: Aug 21 2003 Posts: 2240 Location: Hayden, AL

I've seen both chrome and non chrome barrels on what I thought were good ones. I read somewhere that the chrome barrels messed with the chamber reamers so they dropped using chrome barrel models. I don't believe they rebarreled them too much trouble. The 'modern' green is one of the more suspect finishes. No reason to put new barrels on. But, in the absence of a document that spells out the entire process, all we can do is report what we've seen. So take it all with a grain of salt.
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david cunningham · Joined: Mar 19 2014 Posts: 10

thanks
the links to other post helped.
david

ronin48 · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 8:21 am Post subject:

Receivers were parkerized, my first Korean Conversion was a receiver that Camey out of a parts box and the green was missing over 25-50% of the blue. And it's a bitch to work wiwtth chrome barels. I asked Ruth's son to thread a couple of barrels for lamps, the first he tried was chrome and it was a bugger. He said after the first the second, non chrome, was like threading butter.
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