I will get into this when I do my videos, but the Hakim and mainly ended up being aid from Egypt to other nations. I was able to talk to Miles Vining and got some great info for the Hakim and Rasheed. Your take down footage is very helpful.

11:52 "We're on safe" 11:54 "Back to chomp" Or: "See that safety?" "Turn it to the left. Now you're chomping." "Turn it to the right. Now you ain't."

My grandpa got very lucky and bought one for 300 at a garage sale in 2018. His has a stock disc actually and from my understanding only the 1958 production had those. Very neat rifles.

I'm Swedish, and we often pronounce things differently when we speak English. For instance, we'd say "Stockholm" just like you would when we speak English, but differently when we speak Swedish. So just go with a normal English pronunciation, just like you would when saying "Paris" in English.

I love anything 8mm keep em coming man, I've been following you since the beginning and you have great content

Enjoyed your vid, thanks!

I've had one of these for over 30 years. Loading tip: Always load with the safety on! You can still trip the bolt release on a partial mag especially when loading the full ten rounds from stripper clips as was intended. You need to know to properly index a stripper clip in the receiver bridge to load and the stripper clip ejects when the safety is turned off and the bolt is released. Also it was standard to set the gas adjustment on the second notch initially then adjust up or down for reliable ejection with the wide gamut of ammo that the Egyptians had available. I leave the gas on the second notch since the first sometimes gives weak ejection (but soft shooting), but the second notch still sends brass twenty feet away. The Swedish AG42 is much nicer to shoot! Also beware of early Turk ammo in these things! Turk 8mm tends to beat these up pretty good even on the lowest gas setting.

The return of the decimal point!! :-) That is a weird bit of it, neevr seen one in the metal beforre, thanks Thomas.

Glad I have 2 & a Rashid.

I need one of those

Sweet vid, sold mine to a friend to fund my k43 and just traded my 1903 for a hakim, so to conserve ammo I am watching you shoot it. I also traded my m1 carbine for an 8mm fn49. Would love to see an fn49 vid in the future. Happy shooting!

Awooo! Lovely Hakim! I need to pick one up and the Rasheed one day. I do already have its Swedish granddad though :) Great vid, keep up the good work.

Your collection continues to make my bank account feel threatened lol! Gonna have to pick up a Hakim someday!

Nice shootin TomTom!

Good video

Get a CMP M1 Garand $650 shipped with a sweet case before they are gone well worth the paperwork

On the Hakim, won’t keeping the safety in the “On” position prevent “Hakim thumb” until your hands/fingers are safely out of the way?

Just got my hands on one from a local estate auction. I'd like to get my hands on one of those gas adjustment tools though it runs just fine in setting one. I couldn't get over how well it takes down the 8mm cartridge I see it as a nice companion to the mauser rifle and I think the design really might be well suited to less sandy environments taking it apart I saw a lot of things familiar to later designs I feel it falls somewhere between battle rifle and the early self loading rifles of interwar I saw a German k43 in the same auction you don't want to know what that went for would have loved to have that as well but it looked like it had seen enough and potentially been shot without the updated kit to preserve it from wearing or peening its parts. Here's my take on the Hakim thumb debate the rifle was meant to be operated in a specific order the only way your going to catch that bolt to the thumb is to willfully try to use the gun in a way outside of that the mag wasn't meant to be removed in use and bolt will arrest in the shroud with the safety engaged even with the odd dud strike on an old primer it's easy enough to cycle things without being pinched its just that simple. I think some of the guntubers have been unduly extra and exaggerated this particular point mine accepts stripper clips without a fight it's a dated system but it's not that user unfriendly. Apply the safety until ready to charge or fire the rifle.

You gotta stop making these old surplus rifles look so dam cool. This video alone probably cost me another grand. Thanks for the video

Does anyone know if there is any scope mounts available for these guns?

🇦🇺😎👍Nice

Yeah anytime a Guntuber demonstrates the "Hakim thumb", the magazine is always out. The magazine was always meant to be in the rifle. The bolt carrier will lock back on an empty magazine and you can safely load rounds into the magazine. There is no need to falsely manufacture fear of this rifle by showing improper use.

Is the guns name Thomas or yours😂

The Hakim was sold by Israel as surplus. They got a bunch from Egypt during one of their many wars. Not a very good battle rifle.