+Charles' Milsurp Firearms But, like all traps, it is no danger at all if you know enough to keep your fingers out of the jaws. On the Ljungman there is no reason to put your boogerhook into the action, like there is on the M1. Other than to see if it might hurt a lot, I mean.....
This has to be the most annyoing myths about this rifle. It is just as dangerous as an SKS or SVT-40 with regards to smashing your thumb. The rifle is equipped with a bolt hold open on the last round. When you're empty, you load with stripper clips, push the top cover forward and then back (with your booger hooks out of the way of course). No need to put the rifle on safe when you load. That would be terrible in battle. These are really awesome rifles that are very accurate and soft shooting. If you can find one for a good price, you should definitely pick it up.
As a Swede I love to see this. A good friend of mine has a AG42 that we shoot regulary and I myself harvests moose every year with my Mauser in 6.5x55. A lot of people think that the 6.5x55 isn't powerfull enough for moose but that's wrong. The 6.5x55 is the most common moose caliber in Sweden.
I were using one as my rifle when i got drafted in 1962, i still have scars on my right thumb, se called it an "automatgevärstumme" which means an "automatic rifle thumb", of simply "ag-tumme" swedish for "ag-thumb" i nearly got half my thumb cut off by the bolt, and are proudly carrying my thumb scar today, 50 years later. I remember trying out a rebuilt one, fully automatic, which was to be used as an lmg, but never really were used widely in service, it had a magazine three times larger, with a completely terrible recoil, i had a large bruise on my shoulder afterwards, the ammo where fired within 5 seconds and half the plutoon went deaf.
My grandfather calls the ag42 "the thumb biter" or "tumbitaren" in swedish. But he was a sharpshooter and had the mauser so he didn't deal with it alot I would imagine.
Glad you guys enjoy my familys Mauser Rifle: ( Original name, in Swedish: Automat Gevär Årsmodell Militärversion 1942 modell B ( 1939-1943 ) Ordonans 6.5x55 mm Prickskytte ammunition 6.5mm skott, Patron m/94 Prickskytteversion m/41 5 Skott per räls ( clip ) ( Translation word by word: Automatic Rifle Yearmodell Militaryversion 1942 model B ( 1939-1943 ) Ordonans 6.5 mm Marksman amunition 6.5mm bullet, cartridge m/94 ( Military group 94 ) Dot Shootingversion m/41/ Mark shooting version version or Sniper Version m/41 5 shots per clip ( The standard Swedish 9 mm is called 39B ( Trettionio Bertil ) Thirtynine Bravo ( also called "CopKiller" in the US ) is the Standard ammo for the old 9mm subMachinegun and the AK5 ( K-pist, Kulsprutepistol and Automat Karbin 5 ) A rifle that easily out perform the Germans Mausers, even the much later models. Your shooting skills and the Rifle makes a match seldom found enjoyable match. The Finnish Sniper Sima Hyähä wanted ( and had for a short time the Swedish AG42B, but had to, according the Finnish regiment Use the M/28-30 ( and the submachinegun KP/-31 ). ( My grandfather fought in the Winterwar, some Swedes enlisted to help Finland, the slogan was " Finlands cause are ours", "Finlands sak är vår"
strange that this has no iconic status at all in Sweden, most people probably don't know that it exists, the ak4 that replaced it has got more of an iconic status
Can't really think that's very odd at all, I don't think it was as widespread in swedish service as the Garand was in the US service. It wasn't it really an export succes so there's not much feed from abroad. Add to the fact that the concept was quite outdated after the 50s and everyone who could changed to full auto BRs or Assault rifles. There's a few semi auto rifles that has been more or less forgotten since they were simply short terms until BRs and ARs entered the scene. I mean how iconic is the MAS 49? Vz 52? And yet the MAS 49 was in service until the 70s.
I love the 6.5x55mm round. Was waiting to see something on TH-cam about it. Its such a nasty look cartridge, that bullet is so long and pointy and sharp lol. Very underrated round.
Keep it up Eric and crew! Seriously digging these milsurp videos. The videos you have made on milsurps inspired me to buy my first military surplus rifle (a 1938 Tula 91/30 Mosin Nagant) at 17 years old just a few weeks ago. I love my rifle and I can thank you for opening my eyes to the world of Mosins and Milsurps! Thanks so much for the vids.
My dad had the AG42 when he did his military service in the 50's, he told me this around when I did my service in the 80's. We didn't get to shoot the AG42 unfortunately, as we used the swedish version of the HK G3 (designated Ak4), but we did actually get a full day at the shooting range with m/96 rifles, which use the same ammunition (6.5x55) as the AG42. I remember they were really sweet to shoot, very accurate.
Revisiting this vid after a few years... it still works for me! LOVE my AG42B. I don't shoot it enough, as the ammo is a bit pricey. But when I DO shoot it, I get all kinds of attention and questions from folks at the range!
6.5x55 is a very underrated hunting cartridge in the States now. The .260 Remington and .25-06 made the 6.5 Swede almost disappear. For what it is, it is far superior in its own compared to the .260 and .25-06 and any magnum. Don't know why people need a .30 caliber super short ultra magnum express shoulder bruiser when non-magnums like this will do the job (as it does in Scandinavian countries for hunting) with no problem and will do it without killing your shoulder.
Years back I shot one that belonged to a friend. Shot it prone on a hot humid day at about 150yds. Two 5 shot groups in bad conditions at 1 and 1/8". After that I went on a quest to find one....which I did. Took it to the range and repeated those exact groups. Much more accurate off the bench, but it's easily the best battle rifle ever invented
Probebly the best gun walktrough video I ever seen. I like the way you take us trough the rifles mechanics and how the actual riflemen would operate with the rifle. One thing that usually gets me frustrates about all these gun videos is the sloppy misshandling of firearms. This was serious and safe, just the right amount of seriousity and fun. I´m Swedish and have 8 years in the armed forces. I sure would have loved getting some rounds down range with this m/42. Great vid!
Well, another MilSurp on my list. This is one of the more interesting ones by far. I've honestly never heard of it. Appreciate you Eric & Chad showing it's potential, good shooting.
Eric! Ljungman was a firm that made gasolinepumps and still does I think. But during the war the was a gasshortage and they had good engineneers that needed something to do and together with the inventor constructed the AG42.
I am truly surprised you didnt show the disassembly and the unique feature that they used to stimy the krauts the rear safety selector is also a key component in the operation that can be made to disappear by simply throwing it away
Wonderful! I purchased one around '83 and it was my deer rifle, what a loyal shooter BUT it did bite the hand that feeds... Negligent as I was, bolt slammed forward while my thumb was in it's path. put a hole between my knuckle and nail. As the nail grew I had a perfect round hole in it size of the gas port. I'll never forget that and glad you both mentioned it a few times. But it was wonderful gun!
I bought a Ljunman from a hardware store somewhere about 1992. Fun to shoot and accurate. the cheap surplus ammunition made it even more fun. almost overnight that ammo went from 3 dollars to 25 dollars for 20 rounds. I'm an idiot, I sold the rifle.
Outstanding gun, well demonstrated and fun to see. A thought, could you post a camera view of the targets from the shooting benches so the viewers can see just how small the targets appear to the shooter? Your target cams show the hits fine, but a view from the shooters view point would give us serious input as to the effectiveness of the sights, and especially for the iron sight guns!
I just bought this rifle off a private sale. Can't wait until it comes in the mail and I can take it to the range. I already am going to start loading up some 6.5x55, received a bag full of brass from a friend. Nice video as always.
The Swedes are famous for the quality of their steel,and craftsmanship .The Swedes sold the patent of the .40 mm Bofors antiaircraft gun to both the U.S. ,and Germany in World War II.It is good to be neutral !
Germany did not formally & legally produce their own Bofors 40mm as far as I know. They captured alot of guns from Poland, France, Austria and Norway and pressed them into service where fitting. I think in Norway the Germans captured actual manufactoring equipment and made more guns. The UK and the US each bought licenses from Bofors and made their own versions.
6,5x55 is my favorite cartridge love it over 308 and theres something about 6,5 That makes all the ammo you put in them shoot very accurate. Shooting 6,5 is like shooting an air gun and you can kill moose With it :)
Awesome! I used to own one of these but had to sell it because I wanted to go back to school. I promised myself that I'd buy another one some day but now, I can't find one anywhere...oh, well, one of life's lessons learned!
Have one of these for hunting moose and deer. It's an amazing rifle. And 6.5X55mm is cheap here. And in the army it got the name Tummkrossaren ( Thumb-crusher ). But I love it. But for some reason I use my Carl Gustaf 3000 in .308w more. Even if I prefer the Ljungman.
AmericanFoxhoundSami I know. But got the approval from the local police ( drinking buddy) since I only use it for boar on my private land. Not actually state approved but who gives a crap. I live far into the wild of northern Lapland. My rifle is the last thing the law cares about. And since I wrote the comment I have leaned more towards .308 anyway since the prices dropped for ammo.
BushmasterXM15E2S Pretty easy. Most easy is to get a hunter license. Pass the education ( a couple days ) and you have the right to own up to 4 rifles and shotguns in the so called hunters cabinet/closet. Smaller pistols like a .22 does not count into the "hunting closet" and can be owned on top of that. To own more than four weapons of high caliber you need special papers that can be hard to get. For gun collecting only I don't really know. I'm guessing that is much harder.
What a rifle. 6.5 mm Swedish is a great round. Wish these were common in Australia. Thanks, this is one of the most interesting reviews I have viewed in a long time.
They're great rifles. I have one as well and have heard that only about 30,000 were made! It was also the first direct gas impingement system to be widely integrated. So I've been told.
isaksgaming hörna kopior? AK5C är teoretiskt sätt en kopia, en svensk modifiering av den belgiska FN FNC. Och om det fanns kopior av ak5c så skulle den inte ha samma namn, pga att det är något dem skulle kunnas stämmas för. Samma anledning till att chineserna inte döpte sina ak's till just Ak47 etc. även om dem är samma vapen system.
Samuel Swift They're speaking Swedish. The current topic of discussion is weather Iraqveteran8888 would ever get to shoot the Swedish AK5C. Which is the Swedish made and modified version of the Belgian FN FNC.
Never heard about Krag in 30.06, it would be a resepie for boltinface. I have heard about krag in 30-40, 6,5x55 and a few made in a reduced 8x57, known as the 8x57 moderat.
Eric, you forgot to demonstrate that you can manually recock the hammer. Very very useful for shooting crappy surplus ammo. Also, the disassembly for field maintenance is pretty interesting. 6.5x55 is so accurate due to the extremely high BC of the bullets. the hakim has a ridiculous muzzle brake. extremely effective, but it's like a hurricane for anyone off to your sides. you'll easily blow everything off the tables next to you.
The Swedes have not had any major conflict since firearms started becoming popular. They have been a bit more involved in the last decade, but they have kept out of conflicts for a good long while now.
He's not joking when he tells you to be careful when loading this rifle with a stripper clip... When my grandfather did his military service in Skövde they used this rifle on occasion, but they mostly preferred the older Mauser models because of the Ljungman being widely known as "Tumkrossen", meaning the "Thumbcrusher".
watching in 1080p, i noticed at the 22:00 mark when eric is shooting at the little popper you can see a very nice vapor trail on the bullets. great video as always.
slowpokebr549 It won't cut it to the bone. The only time I shot one, when I reloaded I put the pinky side base of my hand against the slide, to prevent it from slamming into me because M1 thumb also sketches me out.
slowpokebr549 Maybe when there is no rounds in there but when you're loading an Enbloc clip your thumb doesn't go that deep into the receiver. IMO it'd pinch the upper part of your thumb. It'd still hurt, but it definitely wouldn't be as bad as this thing.
Well, a year ago I watched and enjoyed this video. Now today I have the chance to buy one that's been treated kind of carelessly, to say the least. My Gunsmith/Dealer has it now and is going to give it a good cleaning and check over. Regardless of the way it looks now and it's mostly cosmetic roughness, I think I will pay the few bucks and grab it with both hands. Thanks again Chad & Eric , I watched this again, just to refresh my mind about the way they should shoot.
Excellent rifle, the very first to use a gas impingement system. I own a beautiful, mint rifle that I love to shoot. One fun thing about this rifle is shooting the wooden blanks into a steel cap on the end of the barrel! I found some surplus blanks and bought around 5k of them. The combination of the gas impingement system and factory ported barrel makes it a fine shooter. Thanks for the video!
I love shooting, and watching great shots. The precision wherein a millimeter of adjustment by the shooter can result in the difference of a foot down range is amazing.
I own one of these rifles, on a lark, I brought it out to a NM course our club was holding and out shot a lot of the shooters with M1A's and Garands! Got 2nd place missed 1st place by 1X, great fun to shoot, very expensive as I only had Norma Ammo and bought up all I could find to shoot in the match.
My dad has a 6.5 by 55mm swedish mouser we went out and grouped it it shot a group the size of a nickle at 150 yard outside not on a vise or anythings its beautiful its his deer rifle
Eric, its all about the bullet. The 6.5mm AFAIK has one of the highest ballistic coefficients available. Vast majority of true bench rest rifles are in this caliber. I think our modern equivalent would be the 260 Remington or the 6.5 Creedmoor. The 6.5 Grendel comes to mind, but this is based on the 220 Russian. It would have been interesting to see if the Garand was made in the 6.5mm chamberings.
Getting close to 666, 666 subscribers.. On a serious note this whole series on old military rifles is awesome. Easily one of my favorite series on the Tube. Keep making quality videos guys!
The Design was put forth in 41 and the first rifles were done in 42, hence the name. The Ljungman had a ridiculously short development cicle, but that is wha war does to you, you try come up with a solution to a problem right away and put all availiable resources into the project most likely to show the best results. The mentality with the Ljungman was to be able to use equipment already in use by the Armed Forces, hence the relative resemblence of of a Mauser rifle. The Ljungman has the same barrel dimensions as the M96 and uses the same Bayonet and Stripper Clips. Ease of maintentence and a minimum amount of moving parts in the gun was also requirement. That is why the Direct Gas Impingement system was favored and it arguably had the best results. People tend to give Sweden a bad rap about the neutrality during the War but you gotta remember that they were surrounded by enemies and are a huge country with reletively small population and an even smaller defense force. All of Sweden was on edge all throughout the war, expecting either the Nazis or the Soviets to invade at any moment. And Sweden did contribute to the war, both in munitions and armor aswell as active troops. More then 10,000 voluntary swedish citizens fought the Soviets in Finland and the Norwegian Resistence was trained and equiped in Sweden under the guise that they were training police officers in new operation techniques. Sweden even shot down multiple German planes that entered Swedish airspace becuase they violated their neutrality and/or had no permission from swedish officials to use those flight routes.
The 6.5x55 is NOT a mauser cartridge, it was designed by a joint Swedish-Norwegian rifle comission before each natiaon chose the firearm to chamber it in. If anything, the cartridge is a Krag product as it was his proposal that was adopted.
Great video,...good competition. Nice to see this wonderful, rifle being used this way. One of the better 34 minute videos I've had the pleasure to watch. Thank you.
Iv got the egypt hakim rifle and you are not joking about it biting you, I got a good case of the hakim thumb when I first messed with my rifle that ended in a trip to the ER for 9 stitches. You only get it good one time after that you watch what you are doing thats for sure. But its is one of the best shooting rifles I have and is a blast to shoot and it will eat anything you put in it as long as its not a soft point tip but other then that it will eat anything that iv found.
A long time with no comments but a great shoot. I bought an AG42 B sometime around 1972 for $29.95 to shoot groundhogs. It is very accurate but I haven't shot it for years. I may break it out for some shots.
The "sniper" ammo was actually standard the Swedish ammunition from ww2 onwards. The Swedish army was very late to adopt ballistically shaped 6,5mm bullets and this m/41 "sniper" ammunition that came in 1941 was what the Swedish army transitioned into modern bullets with.
Would love to see y'all try this from your newly built platform. With that flat of a trajectory you should have no problem reaching out over 600 yards with that thing :) One of few things that makes me proud to be a swede.
See? Not every Direct Impingement gun is an AR10 or 15 clone. Correction: the MAS40 was the first Direct Impingement Rifle to be adopted. However, the Nazis invaded France before mass production could begin, so the French had to hide the prototypes and blueprints. They would not start making these until autumn ‘44. However, the AG-42 is the first DI gun to be produced en masse.
He should do an entire video just about the 6.5x55 both in form of low pressure, as used in this video, and high pressure ammunition that is nowadays more common in Europe. It is just an awesome caliber that has gotten far too little publicity in relation to what it can offer. High precision, flat trajectory, low recoil, well feeding and potentially very affordable (depending on what brand you go by, as with all other ammunition). To get the best results for accuracy he should be testing with a modern rifle both for the low and high pressure ammunition. That way you cannot blame an old surplus weapon for any bad accuracy. I’d also like him to test some hunting rounds and FMJ on ballistic gel, just to show how well it delivers its energy to the target.
I have all three AG42, Hakim and Rasheed and I will absolutely never make the mistake a second time of letting the Hakim get me I thought for sure it broke my thumb lol live and learn
Just picked up one of these today from my mothers husband. At $400 I think I did ok. It's in 99% condition with original bayonet. I need to pick up a factory cleaning kit though.
Nice to finally see some love for Erik Eklund's design. I still need to get a Hakim, but have had an AG-42 for a while now and share your affection for the rifle. Also picked up a Rasheed last year. Gotta love these goofy transitional semi-autos. Thanks for the video.
Hi, Vet,.... it's amazing how you are albe to get genuine surplus ammo in yr US... the box you are using is also a SELECTED one ...sk patr mean skarpa patroona...sharp ammo... my congrats...
Another modification the Swedes did when they upgraded the Ljungman was the replacement of old gas tubes with corrosion resistant stainless steel tubes. They found that the old tubes corroded quite significantly because of nature of the gas impingement system and stainless steel effectively solved the problem.
I missed out on one of these about 2 years ago for $800. I'm kicking myself for that now. I have a C.96 but I need its Semi-Auto younger brother. One of the other big differences from the normal AG42 and the B was the upgrade to the gas tubing, the regular 42 gas tubes rusted like hell. Almost all of the 42s were upgraded because of this, thus making an unmodified 42 very desirable.
Look into the CMP Eastern Games/Creedmoor Cup matches at Camp Butner, NC. You can shoot the AG 42B in the vintage match, as part of the Garand, Springfield, Vintage military 3 gun aggregate. This premier event is the largest of the CMP travel games, and is a 10 day shooting extravaganza. Don't miss it !
Very good video camera work, especially the close-ups of the AG42B. This round gives stiff competition to the 6.5 Creedmoor, which makes me reconsider purchasing a new rifle in 6.5 CM, which has extreme ammo shortage now (Dec. 2020). Both of you demonstrated excellent shooting skills, too!
Everyone's afraid of M1 Garand thumb, but the Ljungman is a bear trap with a rifle attached to it.
Oh boy haha.
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+Charles' Milsurp Firearms
But, like all traps, it is no danger at all if you know enough to keep your fingers out of the jaws. On the Ljungman there is no reason to put your boogerhook into the action, like there is on the M1. Other than to see if it might hurt a lot, I mean.....
This has to be the most annyoing myths about this rifle. It is just as dangerous as an SKS or SVT-40 with regards to smashing your thumb. The rifle is equipped with a bolt hold open on the last round.
When you're empty, you load with stripper clips, push the top cover forward and then back (with your booger hooks out of the way of course). No need to put the rifle on safe when you load. That would be terrible in battle. These are really awesome rifles that are very accurate and soft shooting. If you can find one for a good price, you should definitely pick it up.
As a Swede I love to see this. A good friend of mine has a AG42 that we shoot regulary and I myself harvests moose every year with my Mauser in 6.5x55. A lot of people think that the 6.5x55 isn't powerfull enough for moose but that's wrong. The 6.5x55 is the most common moose caliber in Sweden.
I were using one as my rifle when i got drafted in 1962, i still have scars on my right thumb, se called it an "automatgevärstumme" which means an "automatic rifle thumb", of simply "ag-tumme" swedish for "ag-thumb" i nearly got half my thumb cut off by the bolt, and are proudly carrying my thumb scar today, 50 years later.
I remember trying out a rebuilt one, fully automatic, which was to be used as an lmg, but never really were used widely in service, it had a magazine three times larger, with a completely terrible recoil, i had a large bruise on my shoulder afterwards, the ammo where fired within 5 seconds and half the plutoon went deaf.
Hahaha! Tumme upp (!) på den :D
My grandfather calls the ag42 "the thumb biter" or "tumbitaren" in swedish. But he was a sharpshooter and had the mauser so he didn't deal with it alot I would imagine.
Wow! You're a classic man! That's cool!
Glad you guys enjoy my familys Mauser Rifle:
( Original name, in Swedish: Automat Gevär Årsmodell Militärversion 1942 modell B ( 1939-1943 ) Ordonans 6.5x55 mm Prickskytte ammunition 6.5mm skott, Patron m/94 Prickskytteversion m/41 5 Skott per räls ( clip )
( Translation word by word: Automatic Rifle Yearmodell Militaryversion 1942 model B ( 1939-1943 ) Ordonans 6.5 mm Marksman amunition 6.5mm bullet, cartridge m/94
( Military group 94 ) Dot Shootingversion m/41/ Mark shooting version version or Sniper Version m/41 5 shots per clip
( The standard Swedish 9 mm is called 39B ( Trettionio Bertil ) Thirtynine Bravo ( also called "CopKiller" in the US ) is the Standard ammo for the old 9mm subMachinegun and the AK5 ( K-pist, Kulsprutepistol and Automat Karbin 5 )
A rifle that easily out perform the Germans Mausers, even the much later models. Your shooting skills and the Rifle makes a match seldom found enjoyable match.
The Finnish Sniper Sima Hyähä wanted ( and had for a short time the Swedish AG42B, but had to, according the Finnish regiment Use the M/28-30 ( and the submachinegun KP/-31 ).
( My grandfather fought in the Winterwar, some Swedes enlisted to help Finland, the slogan was " Finlands cause are ours", "Finlands sak är vår"
strange that this has no iconic status at all in Sweden, most people probably don't know that it exists, the ak4 that replaced it has got more of an iconic status
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Can't really think that's very odd at all, I don't think it was as widespread in swedish service as the Garand was in the US service. It wasn't it really an export succes so there's not much feed from abroad. Add to the fact that the concept was quite outdated after the 50s and everyone who could changed to full auto BRs or Assault rifles.
There's a few semi auto rifles that has been more or less forgotten since they were simply short terms until BRs and ARs entered the scene. I mean how iconic is the MAS 49? Vz 52? And yet the MAS 49 was in service until the 70s.
Swedes don't use AK or any other Communist Block weapon.
Swamp Rooster the swedish use the ak5c i belive if im not mistaken.
Swamp Rooster the Ak4 was a slighty modified G3 rifle. The "Ak" part of the name stands for "automatkarbin" hehe.
I love the 6.5x55mm round. Was waiting to see something on TH-cam about it. Its such a nasty look cartridge, that bullet is so long and pointy and sharp lol. Very underrated round.
Keep it up Eric and crew! Seriously digging these milsurp videos. The videos you have made on milsurps inspired me to buy my first military surplus rifle (a 1938 Tula 91/30 Mosin Nagant) at 17 years old just a few weeks ago. I love my rifle and I can thank you for opening my eyes to the world of Mosins and Milsurps! Thanks so much for the vids.
My dad had the AG42 when he did his military service in the 50's, he told me this around when I did my service in the 80's. We didn't get to shoot the AG42 unfortunately, as we used the swedish version of the HK G3 (designated Ak4), but we did actually get a full day at the shooting range with m/96 rifles, which use the same ammunition (6.5x55) as the AG42. I remember they were really sweet to shoot, very accurate.
Old (50 this month) former Swedish Army Ranger....watched, enjoyed, subscribed!
I'll buy the lunch as a treat, for a bloody awesome video! 🍽️🍻
Revisiting this vid after a few years... it still works for me! LOVE my AG42B. I don't shoot it enough, as the ammo is a bit pricey. But when I DO shoot it, I get all kinds of attention and questions from folks at the range!
Im Swedish i Love the 6.5x55 It's super accurate :)
6.5x55 is a very underrated hunting cartridge in the States now. The .260 Remington and .25-06 made the 6.5 Swede almost disappear. For what it is, it is far superior in its own compared to the .260 and .25-06 and any magnum. Don't know why people need a .30 caliber super short ultra magnum express shoulder bruiser when non-magnums like this will do the job (as it does in Scandinavian countries for hunting) with no problem and will do it without killing your shoulder.
Yeah totally agree brother 🇸🇪
I'm feeling a Eric and Ljungman vs Chad and Garand competition. grouping, time trial with the gongs, and long range
I paid $200 for one in '93. Awesomely accurate rifle.
i love guns... but the sound of a slide being racked...thats the best thing ever
Years back I shot one that belonged to a friend. Shot it prone on a hot humid day at about 150yds. Two 5 shot groups in bad conditions at 1 and 1/8". After that I went on a quest to find one....which I did. Took it to the range and repeated those exact groups. Much more accurate off the bench, but it's easily the best battle rifle ever invented
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Probebly the best gun walktrough video I ever seen. I like the way you take us trough the rifles mechanics and how the actual riflemen would operate with the rifle. One thing that usually gets me frustrates about all these gun videos is the sloppy misshandling of firearms. This was serious and safe, just the right amount of seriousity and fun. I´m Swedish and have 8 years in the armed forces. I sure would have loved getting some rounds down range with this m/42. Great vid!
Well, another MilSurp on my list. This is one of the more interesting ones by far. I've honestly never heard of it. Appreciate you Eric & Chad showing it's potential, good shooting.
charlie foxtrot what about .50BMG lol
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Eric! Ljungman was a firm that made gasolinepumps and still does I think. But during the war the was a gasshortage and they had good engineneers that needed something to do and together with the inventor constructed the AG42.
I can't believe I watched a "no-nuts fancy" length video and fully enjoyed it!
Thanks for the love Eric!
As a Swedish viewer, that neutral joke killed me haha
Awesome MilSurp. Anyone else head straight to gunbroker after this video?
I am truly surprised you didnt show the disassembly and the unique feature that they used to stimy the krauts the rear safety selector is also a key component in the operation that can be made to disappear by simply throwing it away
Tell Chad to turn his aimbot off.
The very flat trajectory and low wind drift of 6.5x55 Swede with spitzer bullets makes it a bit easier.
yeah the 6.5x55mm has a long-ass bullet, its really fun to shoot in a bolt action rifle
sweet rifle ... we use 6,5 x 55 (Norma 140 grain hollow point) in Sauer 200 rifles for longrange accurate shooting compos at 100, 200 and 300 meters.
Love it. I love shooting my M96 and love the 6.5 so much, I know I would love this. Thanks for the video. I loved seeing this.
Wonderful! I purchased one around '83 and it was my deer rifle, what a loyal shooter BUT it did bite the hand that feeds... Negligent as I was, bolt slammed forward while my thumb was in it's path. put a hole between my knuckle and nail. As the nail grew I had a perfect round hole in it size of the gas port. I'll never forget that and glad you both mentioned it a few times. But it was wonderful gun!
I would like to have Chad as my neighbour during a zombie apocalypse. Top-notch badass rifleman.
I bought a Ljunman from a hardware store somewhere about 1992. Fun to shoot and accurate. the cheap surplus ammunition made it even more fun. almost overnight that ammo went from 3 dollars to 25 dollars for 20 rounds. I'm an idiot, I sold the rifle.
Outstanding gun, well demonstrated and fun to see. A thought, could you post a camera view of the targets from the shooting benches so the viewers can see just how small the targets appear to the shooter? Your target cams show the hits fine, but a view from the shooters view point would give us serious input as to the effectiveness of the sights, and especially for the iron sight guns!
good idea! that would be rly cool!
I was thinking the same thing man
I miss these videos happier times. Not dissing the new stuff its just nice to see the old mil surp stuff
Hakim stands for "wise", Malik stands for king, thank you guys for the videos, Long live the USA
I just bought this rifle off a private sale. Can't wait until it comes in the mail and I can take it to the range. I already am going to start loading up some 6.5x55, received a bag full of brass from a friend. Nice video as always.
The Swedes are famous for the quality of their steel,and craftsmanship .The Swedes sold the patent of the .40 mm Bofors antiaircraft gun to both the U.S. ,and Germany in World War II.It is good to be neutral !
Swedes will fight to the last Finn.
Amen !
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Germany did not formally & legally produce their own Bofors 40mm as far as I know. They captured alot of guns from Poland, France, Austria and Norway and pressed them into service where fitting. I think in Norway the Germans captured actual manufactoring equipment and made more guns.
The UK and the US each bought licenses from Bofors and made their own versions.
Fredrik Hall; thank you !
Thanx. My father had this gun as his personal weapon when he did his military service in Sweden in the early 1960s. now I know what he talks about.
6,5x55 is my favorite cartridge love it over 308 and theres something about 6,5 That makes all the ammo you put in them shoot very accurate. Shooting 6,5 is like shooting an air gun and you can kill moose With it :)
I agree with you,Just like shooting an air gun
Awesome! I used to own one of these but had to sell it because I wanted to go back to school. I promised myself that I'd buy another one some day but now, I can't find one anywhere...oh, well, one of life's lessons learned!
Have one of these for hunting moose and deer. It's an amazing rifle. And 6.5X55mm is cheap here. And in the army it got the name Tummkrossaren ( Thumb-crusher ). But I love it. But for some reason I use my Carl Gustaf 3000 in .308w more. Even if I prefer the Ljungman.
Well, then you are doing some illegal things. The rifle is not approved for hunting in Sweden. :P
AmericanFoxhoundSami I know. But got the approval from the local police ( drinking buddy) since I only use it for boar on my private land. Not actually state approved but who gives a crap. I live far into the wild of northern Lapland. My rifle is the last thing the law cares about. And since I wrote the comment I have leaned more towards .308 anyway since the prices dropped for ammo.
AmericanFoxhoundSami But I have dropped a few moose and deer's with it but let's keep that between us ;)
+Viking88 How hard or easy is it to get a gun in Sweden?
BushmasterXM15E2S
Pretty easy. Most easy is to get a hunter license. Pass the education ( a couple days )
and you have the right to own up to 4 rifles and shotguns in the so called hunters cabinet/closet. Smaller pistols like a .22 does not count into the "hunting closet" and can be owned on top of that. To own more than four weapons of high caliber you need special papers that can be hard to get.
For gun collecting only I don't really know.
I'm guessing that is much harder.
Very glad that this weapon finally get its righteous accolades, and by vets on top of that. Thank you brothers....
This video made me want one.... I MUST FIND ONE!!!!
Same
yes i want one
I have the hakim and it is a super gun with a ton of punch. best 150 bucks I ever spent.
Johnny Ringo - I'll give you 400 for it if it's in decent condition (no cracks or deep gouges). Let me know, dead serious
got one of each of them back when they were cheap ---- and no - they are not for sale ----
What a rifle. 6.5 mm Swedish is a great round. Wish these were common in Australia. Thanks, this is one of the most interesting reviews I have viewed in a long time.
Pretty neat gun its kinda like if the M1 Garand and the Sks had a baby
Even has an angry bolt!
They're great rifles. I have one as well and have heard that only about 30,000 were made! It was also the first direct gas impingement system to be widely integrated. So I've been told.
Do a video in the ak5c
KaptenFluffen instämmer, rent omöjligt. Det är ett automat gevär som ej säljs till jänkarna..
Finns ju kopior ;) O ni har nog rätt men det skulle vara coolt
isaksgaming hörna kopior? AK5C är teoretiskt sätt en kopia, en svensk modifiering av den belgiska FN FNC. Och om det fanns kopior av ak5c så skulle den inte ha samma namn, pga att det är något dem skulle kunnas stämmas för. Samma anledning till att chineserna inte döpte sina ak's till just Ak47 etc. även om dem är samma vapen system.
What language are you speaking? Turkish? German? Dutch?
Samuel Swift They're speaking Swedish. The current topic of discussion is weather Iraqveteran8888 would ever get to shoot the Swedish AK5C. Which is the Swedish made and modified version of the Belgian FN FNC.
I owned M42's for many years and never ever got my fingers hurt . It's just a matter of knowing how your gun works .
I inherited one of these from my Dad. I Love this rifle, unique, accurate and incredibly soft shooting ! Is there any more surplus ammo around?
I have one and shoots so nice .And it is so quiet ,mine is
Have one of these in mint condition, and let me tell you, this thing is an absolute blast to shoot, it's almost a lazer with its accuracy
I' still praying for you guys to try a Norwegian Krag-Jørgensen
I imagine that it could be hard to find ammo for it in the US
Handloaded 6,5x55
uvkgn you can get krags in many calibers. 30-06,6.5x55,30-40 krag. most of that is still readily available.
30.06? I would never dare to fire that! Tha Krag has a weaker action, and can't use full powered ammunition even in 6,5x55
Never heard about Krag in 30.06, it would be a resepie for boltinface. I have heard about krag in 30-40, 6,5x55 and a few made in a reduced 8x57, known as the 8x57 moderat.
Eric, you forgot to demonstrate that you can manually recock the hammer. Very very useful for shooting crappy surplus ammo.
Also, the disassembly for field maintenance is pretty interesting.
6.5x55 is so accurate due to the extremely high BC of the bullets.
the hakim has a ridiculous muzzle brake. extremely effective, but it's like a hurricane for anyone off to your sides. you'll easily blow everything off the tables next to you.
Did the Swedes ever shoot at anybody with these rifles?
I wouldn't think so. Maybe on some "peace"-keeping missions in Africa. The current rifle AK5C (Automat Karbin 5) has seen alot of combat tho.
The Swedes have not had any major conflict since firearms started becoming popular. They have been a bit more involved in the last decade, but they have kept out of conflicts for a good long while now.
Jesse Sisolack The last major conflict Sweden was involved in was the Napoleonic War. Peaceful people!
M04R92 Peaceful, but well armed. One of the few places I would consider living.
M04R92 Well not realy, we used to own Finland, norway and denmark i Think.
He's not joking when he tells you to be careful when loading this rifle with a stripper clip... When my grandfather did his military service in Skövde they used this rifle on occasion, but they mostly preferred the older Mauser models because of the Ljungman being widely known as "Tumkrossen", meaning the "Thumbcrusher".
Jag vill haaaaaaa!!!!
Jag mee!!
watching in 1080p, i noticed at the 22:00 mark when eric is shooting at the little popper you can see a very nice vapor trail on the bullets. great video as always.
I would take a garand over this any day of the week, because a garand won't cut you to the bone. Fuck that's scary.
Uhhhh.....a Garand will smash the shit out of your thumb.
slowpokebr549 It won't cut it to the bone. The only time I shot one, when I reloaded I put the pinky side base of my hand against the slide, to prevent it from slamming into me because M1 thumb also sketches me out.
Patrick Takada To me I would take the Garand simply because it is dead ass beautiful. It is smooth as butter and it shoots an extremely popular round.
mark shuler That too. Fighting across the world is a bit cooler than "used by a country then sold to Egyptians"
slowpokebr549 Maybe when there is no rounds in there but when you're loading an Enbloc clip your thumb doesn't go that deep into the receiver. IMO it'd pinch the upper part of your thumb. It'd still hurt, but it definitely wouldn't be as bad as this thing.
Great video! think its nice that you show of some good Swedish guns in your show! Keep up the good work my man!
Greetings from a Swed!
Hey am Egyptian, Hakem means wise man.
Sweet video I used an AG42B to shoot a toilet in my video. I really enjoyed shooting it. It is a well built rifle.
Keep the great video's coming.
Well, a year ago I watched and enjoyed this video. Now today I have the chance to buy one that's been treated kind of carelessly, to say the least. My Gunsmith/Dealer has it now and is going to give it a good cleaning and check over. Regardless of the way it looks now and it's mostly cosmetic roughness, I think I will pay the few bucks and grab it with both hands.
Thanks again Chad & Eric , I watched this again, just to refresh my mind about the way they should shoot.
Excellent rifle, the very first to use a gas impingement system. I own a beautiful, mint rifle that I love to shoot. One fun thing about this rifle is shooting the wooden blanks into a steel cap on the end of the barrel! I found some surplus blanks and bought around 5k of them. The combination of the gas impingement system and factory ported barrel makes it a fine shooter. Thanks for the video!
I love shooting, and watching great shots. The precision wherein a millimeter of adjustment by the shooter can result in the difference of a foot down range is amazing.
I absolutely love this rifle and the reasons are:
Its swedish
The entire system is very fascinating and unique
It looks beatiful
I was previously unaware of how much I needed one of these. I love the 6.5x55 and my 1896 Mauser, but this would be a badass addition.
That is a very unique and a monster of a gun. I want one just like it when I grow up. I am thanking you too many already for showing it to us.
Impressive! I'm from Sweden myself but I've never heard of this rifle. Really nice to see you shoot it and hear about it at the same time! :D
Love that cap! I used it during my 10 months of military service back in 99/00 up in the north of Sweden. Great video, guys!
Most impressed. I've never seen anything on the operation Swede Ljungman. I knew the AR15/M-16's DI system was derived from it.
Love how it says "prickskytte" on the ammo box, awesome!
I own one of these rifles, on a lark, I brought it out to a NM course our club was holding and out shot a lot of the shooters with M1A's and Garands!
Got 2nd place missed 1st place by 1X, great fun to shoot, very expensive as I only had Norma Ammo and bought up all I could find to shoot in the match.
The 6.5 Swedish Mauser is a VERY good long range ammo
My dad has a 6.5 by 55mm swedish mouser we went out and grouped it it shot a group the size of a nickle at 150 yard outside not on a vise or anythings its beautiful its his deer rifle
Eric, its all about the bullet. The 6.5mm AFAIK has one of the highest ballistic coefficients available. Vast majority of true bench rest rifles are in this caliber. I think our modern equivalent would be the 260 Remington or the 6.5 Creedmoor. The 6.5 Grendel comes to mind, but this is based on the 220 Russian. It would have been interesting to see if the Garand was made in the 6.5mm chamberings.
Getting close to 666, 666 subscribers.. On a serious note this whole series on old military rifles is awesome. Easily one of my favorite series on the Tube. Keep making quality videos guys!
First time I ever fired a 6.5 I fell in love. And this rifle looks incredible!
The Design was put forth in 41 and the first rifles were done in 42, hence the name. The Ljungman had a ridiculously short development cicle, but that is wha war does to you, you try come up with a solution to a problem right away and put all availiable resources into the project most likely to show the best results. The mentality with the Ljungman was to be able to use equipment already in use by the Armed Forces, hence the relative resemblence of of a Mauser rifle. The Ljungman has the same barrel dimensions as the M96 and uses the same Bayonet and Stripper Clips. Ease of maintentence and a minimum amount of moving parts in the gun was also requirement. That is why the Direct Gas Impingement system was favored and it arguably had the best results.
People tend to give Sweden a bad rap about the neutrality during the War but you gotta remember that they were surrounded by enemies and are a huge country with reletively small population and an even smaller defense force. All of Sweden was on edge all throughout the war, expecting either the Nazis or the Soviets to invade at any moment. And Sweden did contribute to the war, both in munitions and armor aswell as active troops. More then 10,000 voluntary swedish citizens fought the Soviets in Finland and the Norwegian Resistence was trained and equiped in Sweden under the guise that they were training police officers in new operation techniques. Sweden even shot down multiple German planes that entered Swedish airspace becuase they violated their neutrality and/or had no permission from swedish officials to use those flight routes.
I love the old wood steel firearms, Thanks for this. 1000 thumbs up.
The 6.5x55 is NOT a mauser cartridge, it was designed by a joint Swedish-Norwegian rifle comission before each natiaon chose the firearm to chamber it in. If anything, the cartridge is a Krag product as it was his proposal that was adopted.
Great video,...good competition. Nice to see this wonderful, rifle being used this way. One of the better 34 minute videos I've had the pleasure to watch. Thank you.
Iv got the egypt hakim rifle and you are not joking about it biting you, I got a good case of the hakim thumb when I first messed with my rifle that ended in a trip to the ER for 9 stitches. You only get it good one time after that you watch what you are doing thats for sure. But its is one of the best shooting rifles I have and is a blast to shoot and it will eat anything you put in it as long as its not a soft point tip but other then that it will eat anything that iv found.
Nice! What a rabbit hole to go down with these milsurps.
A long time with no comments but a great shoot. I bought an AG42 B sometime around 1972 for $29.95 to shoot groundhogs. It is very accurate but I haven't shot it for years. I may break it out for some shots.
This things beautiful. I'm just getting into firearms so I I don't know a lot but I love all these surplus rifles.
me too!
The "sniper" ammo was actually standard the Swedish ammunition from ww2 onwards.
The Swedish army was very late to adopt ballistically shaped 6,5mm bullets and this m/41 "sniper" ammunition that came in 1941 was what the Swedish army transitioned into modern bullets with.
Would love to see y'all try this from your newly built platform. With that flat of a trajectory you should have no problem reaching out over 600 yards with that thing :)
One of few things that makes me proud to be a swede.
I had one years ago. Totally loved it.
Ljungman is both a name and a swedish term for greenhorn, mostly used in naval context.
See? Not every Direct Impingement gun is an AR10 or 15 clone.
Correction: the MAS40 was the first Direct Impingement Rifle to be adopted. However, the Nazis invaded France before mass production could begin, so the French had to hide the prototypes and blueprints. They would not start making these until autumn ‘44.
However, the AG-42 is the first DI gun to be produced en masse.
I have never heard of this rifle before. Looks like a winner.
He should do an entire video just about the 6.5x55 both in form of low pressure, as used in this video, and high pressure ammunition that is nowadays more common in Europe.
It is just an awesome caliber that has gotten far too little publicity in relation to what it can offer.
High precision, flat trajectory, low recoil, well feeding and potentially very affordable (depending on what brand you go by, as with all other ammunition).
To get the best results for accuracy he should be testing with a modern rifle both for the low and high pressure ammunition. That way you cannot blame an old surplus weapon for any bad accuracy.
I’d also like him to test some hunting rounds and FMJ on ballistic gel, just to show how well it delivers its energy to the target.
I have all three AG42, Hakim and Rasheed and I will absolutely never make the mistake a second time of letting the Hakim get me I thought for sure it broke my thumb lol live and learn
Just picked up one of these today from my mothers husband. At $400 I think I did ok. It's in 99% condition with original bayonet. I need to pick up a factory cleaning kit though.
Nice to finally see some love for Erik Eklund's design. I still need to get a Hakim, but have had an AG-42 for a while now and share your affection for the rifle. Also picked up a Rasheed last year. Gotta love these goofy transitional semi-autos. Thanks for the video.
These are some really cool guys! Love seeing these guys send some bullets down range.
Hi, Vet,.... it's amazing how you are albe to get genuine surplus ammo in yr US... the box you are using is also a SELECTED one ...sk patr mean skarpa patroona...sharp ammo... my congrats...
Another modification the Swedes did when they upgraded the Ljungman was the replacement of old gas tubes with corrosion resistant stainless steel tubes. They found that the old tubes corroded quite significantly because of nature of the gas impingement system and stainless steel effectively solved the problem.
I missed out on one of these about 2 years ago for $800. I'm kicking myself for that now. I have a C.96 but I need its Semi-Auto younger brother.
One of the other big differences from the normal AG42 and the B was the upgrade to the gas tubing, the regular 42 gas tubes rusted like hell. Almost all of the 42s were upgraded because of this, thus making an unmodified 42 very desirable.
Scored one of these bad boys about 2 years ago. I got lucky and found a spare magazine on eBay too. These are well north of $2,000 now.
My grandfather always talks about the thumb and how everyone hated this rifle.
Wow - what a complex and sophisticated rifle!
Look into the CMP Eastern Games/Creedmoor Cup matches at Camp Butner, NC. You can shoot the AG 42B in the vintage match, as part of the Garand, Springfield, Vintage military 3 gun aggregate. This premier event is the largest of the CMP travel games, and is a 10 day shooting extravaganza. Don't miss it !
Very good video camera work, especially the close-ups of the AG42B. This round gives stiff competition to the 6.5 Creedmoor, which makes me reconsider purchasing a new rifle in 6.5 CM, which has extreme ammo shortage now (Dec. 2020). Both of you demonstrated excellent shooting skills, too!