Thank you!

Thanks for the tip!

They certainly do seem in short supply, don't they? Outside of gun shows and perhaps a store like Marstar.ca (who seem to have a collection of milsurp parts), not sure where you can get one. Congrats on the purchase though, hope you didn't pay too much!

Awesome stuff man, good for you. Good that you got the kit too -- a lot of gun dealers are selling them separately these days to boost their take on the rifles, nice that your friend threw it in. I have a video up about the kit if you want/need to learn more: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o9p3h8xlsq6zfqc.html

That's crazy. I felt like I was overpaying slightly at CAD$650...I can't imagine paying what would be about CAD$1000 for it. That said, they aren't making any more of them, ha ha.

@@TheRedneckPreppy Well then again you all got like, 400 CAD SVT-40's so I don't even know what to think anymore.

@@googlemyharbl Unfortunately they aren't C$400 any more. Since the Crimean troubles no real imports of SVTs have taken place in a while and prices have increased fairly quickly. Used to be you could buy one for $3-400 but these days they're closer to $7-800....when you can find them. No company seems to have any in stock!

I paid $600 (US) for mine in 2003 and that was the going rate at the time. Yes, they are well over $1000 now and closer to $1500 or more depending on condition. There have been none imported in about 30 years so the price will continue to go up. I'm glad I got mine when I did.

Every rifle is different but the load I use for my AG42B is Hornady 140gn SP Interlock (#2630), over 43.5 gn of H4831SC, case trimmed to 2.155 and a COL of 2.905 (with that Hornady bullet), and a Winchester Large Rifle primer. I get good results with it -- your mileage may vary. I don't know if it will reach vaunted M41 levels of accuracy though.

thank you for your help ill try it

@@georgel4600 Good luck!

I reload for my Sweds. Love this round. But very hard to find now. So,,,, that's why we reload,because of supply and demand bs!!!!

If it's an AG42B it should shoot 6.5x55mm ammunition, so you should be good. If you have one with Arabic writing, because the Egyptians licenced them in the early 1950s, it should be shooting 8mm Mauser is called the Hakim. Based on what you said, you should have an AG42B and the ammunition you got with it should be fine. The M/41 ammunition was their "sniper" ammunition and works in the AG42B. I don't know if I would shoot it though, I hear it's actually worth some money.

@@TheRedneckPreppy the egyptian hakim was what they had 8x57mm they up graded ajustable gas system and a few other changes

Yeah, I did give it a bit of an odd pronunciation :-)

I don't know how perfectly it fit the needs of the Swedish military when they made comparatively few of the AG42s and the M96 stayed in service. I think one could argue that the M96 wasn't ultimately replaced by the AG in 1942, but by the AK4 in the mid-60s. That said, I don't want to sound like I'm ragging on the AG42, I do very much admire this rifle. As for the rest -- I do thank you for your valuable input. Comparisons are always fraught with danger and are often an apples/oranges type of thing, even when it's something like military rifles like the AG and SKS. When I call it a historical dead end like the SKS it's more that it's lineage never went past itself. It existed for a purpose but was shelved when needs changed for good. At any rate, you have my thanks -- I love hearing from people as passionate about this subject as I am.

@@TheRedneckPreppy as I said, the swedes started development in 1941 when Germany had the whole continent in their hands, they needed something good and they needed it immediately. One year of R&D and they started production. But then 1943 came and the german menace wasn't so a menace anymore. So production slew down. Then the war ended and AG42 production wasn't a need anymore. That's why sweden, a country that was neutral during both world wars, stayed with the M96 till mid-60s. They just didn't need to spend tons of money (in semiauto rifles) to upgrade bolt action rifles; at least until all other major countries upgraded their cartridge and main battle rifle. If Germany continued to be a menace I can guarantee you that AG42s would have replace M96s in most fighting units. All of this without talking about the experiments to turn the existing AG42s into a select fire battle rifle. And as I said ealrier I don't want to be a douche on this argument, I just want to help you understand the context of the AG42: it was the right gun, in the right time, they just didn't have to spend all that money for a war they hadn't to fight anymore. In case of need it would have easily replaced the entire m96 frontline use. If you offered the AG42 in 1942 to a fighting country with the money and industrial capacity to produce it, that country would take this chance immediately. The sks was the wrong gun in the wrong time. War is over, and you offer a weak rifle in a world that already know the sturmgewehr concept. It's quite obvious that it won't have easy life. If you offer an sks to a fighting country in april 1945 noone would buy it. War is over and there are better offer on the table. The only reason the sks "succeded" was because Russia almost gifted the machinery to satellite and developing countries.