Another great video thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Swedish gun-nerd here. I have yet to kill my thumb with an Automatgevär m/42B. Pray for my continuous luck in this endeavour. 😃

Very Good video. Your knowledge of the topic is impressive. Here is my question: Misha - Have you considered adding an approximate cost to purchase (as of the date of the video) and / or a purchase price when you obtained a particular item, along with the year. That would help those of us, like myself, who are often motivated to seek out a particular item after one of your videos.

Had heard of the rifle. Never seen that one in the "wild". Seems like a great well designed and a bit ahead of its time. Thanks enjoyed learning about it.

proud owner here and mine came with an extra mag! cleaning kit Bayonet and frog and yours is the only one I seen with a old belt sling like mine. I know another guy with with a AG42B and suffered the dust cover trap it broke his thumb and the gas tube end left a huge hole

If you ever want to see what the Ljungman looked like before the modifications to the AG-42B configuration, take a look at the Hakim. Both the serrated charging/dust cover thing, sights, and the magazine latch remained true to the original design on the Hakim rifles. Madsen also produced a dozen or so prototype AG42s with small modifications in an attempt to get the rifle adopted by Denmark, but the Germans in control of the country at the time made arms development difficult. The idea was ultimately dropped when Germany put Madsen to work making guns for the Occupying forces. Also, the development of the rifle was even faster than most people realize. From the time Erik Eklund was ordered to design the rifle to the time the rifle was adopted and accepted for production to begin, only 9 months had elapsed! It has to be one of the fastest development histories of a good rifle design during that time, or perhaps even afterwards.

Developed by the swedish designer Ljungmans pump AB

If the axction closes on your fingers it makes m1 thumb feel like a love tap.

Love it

Nice Rifle Misha Very Interesting Mechanics I Would of Liked too Have Met The Designer I’m a Mechanic and It Really Is A Robust Well Made And Thought Out Design 😊😀👍🏼

Misha found your channel from tfb tv n love it. Have you seen sorry heard garand thumb vid better than akm chech vz 58

Really cool never seen one

Hey, that’s me he’s talking about lol

I love the charging mechanism but that big bolt just fills my fingers with dread

It’s bad. Eats my 6.5 brass.lol. Great video, thanks for sharing, I do enjoy your videos. Thanks again.

Accurate rifle, great caliber.

nice wall

Hi Misha

Nice rifle.

Every one is always talking about garand thumb when ag42s may cut your thumb off lol

Dream gun for me to own there.

Swedish pronounciation would have the L silent. (The A sounds like in 'sun' and 'son'. J is like the Y in 'yes'. The U-sound is a bit tricky, but never mind. Just drop the L.)

Have used one .. crapped all over a Garand or M14 up to 1km .. controllable and VERY accurate .. the 'thumb business' is akin to the Darwin awards !! Put on safety etc and KNOW the weapon''s operation .. simple as DUH ?

I do Love me some Swedish Rifles. I've been collecting them for many years. The AG42 is so mild to shoot. And very accurate. I've got a good supply of bottle nose bullets. And a large supply of Spitzer. But what I mostly shoot out of the 42 and 38,s and 96,s is my home rolled 139g lead tips. I have a custom built target rifle useing a K98 receiver and Burris Eliminator 2 scope. It likes my reloads the best. Can get one hole 5 shot groups at 500yrds and around 1.5" at 700. That seems to be were I start spreading out shots. I'm not sure if it's the limit of my barrel or the round itself. Hard to beat a 6.5x55 Swede.

I bought one of these from you

Egypt: Don't scream. Call Hakim!

Put it on Safe and it wont spring forward.

Can this type of direct impingement (non-AR) be mordernised to be used by full auto assault rifle? It's cleverly simple.

Not a fan of commercials bro, come ON

You think garand thumb is bad! As Judas Priest said, you got another thing coming.

They also made some in 1955