Any ideas on why Egypt switched to the Hakim from the FN 49

Thank you smellie! Every post you make is tuition-free learning!

Quiet said:
It is too bad that the Rashid was a dead end.

Political considerations aside, I think the Rashid could even have have been the better weapon, simply with the addition of a larger capacity detachable magazine and a simplified magazine catch, allowing it to be used as such.
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Actually (as a die-hard Euklund fan), The Rashid has a weakness in it's trigger group( Afficionados correct at will) in that there's a component that can shear and, be very difficult to spot with the eye (dr.google...). The one I've had my hands on was tip-top (minus ugly cammo paint)

Re: Mag, like it's "counterpart" (SKS) it was designed for stripper-clips and, can be loaded (lol, not by me...) faster than a mag-swap

I'm not sure it's true "red" counter-part (SKS) is worse for "durability"...when the factory was re-vamped it was for a "next generation" of tool. Don't mis-read as, I do love 'em! (and Ljungman and Hakim).

burnt_servo said:
you only do it once !!!!! .........
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Nope, with an ambi-dexterious rifle like this, you have the opportunity to do it twice! (and be the brunt of fellow soldier's jokes for the rest of your thumbless career)
 
svt1940 said:
My last creation:p
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SVT
Where do you get the pens and, why do you hate them so much?

Back on track and, hi-jack to boot...

I've not fired an FN! Seriously, at the end (receiving) has anyone shot both? My Ljungman (not me always...) can really put 'em in there! The Hakims I've been lucky enough to meet could too. I know the FN is Legendary which, is probably why I've not been lucky enough to shoot one!
 
My ag42 shoot very good and my Hakim too, but i find it alot louder then the swedish! Now i wait the spring to get my egyptian FN49 at the range to see how is it. For sure i like the FN sight better.
 
An M1thumb is nothing compared to an AG42B thumb. The bolt is heavier and then there is that gas port tube that will cut a nice round chunk out of your thumb.:eek:
 
smellie said:
Colonel Nasser was trying to chart a completely independent course for Egypt, one which included local industrialisation. The FN was a nice rifle but really expensive. Yes, they DID look as good as the Venezelan ones when they were new. I have seen a new Egyptian and they are a work of art.

Nasser himself is an interesting study. Khrushchev and Eisenhower, later Kennedy and all the rest, were really trying to court Nasser to get him on their side. The Soviets had supported Israel until it was established, then did an about-face after the US aid started pouring into Israel, started being friendly with the Arab/Muslim world and denouncing Israel as a tool of US Imperialism and all the rest....... this despite the fact that Russia held the bulk of the world's Jewish population butwouldn't let them (or anyone else) out.

Nasser and Sadat both had worked for the Axis during War Two, something not generally known. And one very important point: Nasser was not an Arab. He had an Arab name, but he was from the same stock as Ramses II.... and he knew it. "Colonel Nasser is the first EGYPTIAN to rule Egypt since Alexander the Great..... and he knows this. He is an EGYPTIAN and he does what he thinks is best for EGYPT." (Dr. Charles W. Lightbody, 1969, spoken to myself).

The course was obvious: local manufacture of a modern rifle. It was only AFTER Russia started pouring in the equipment that the Maadi factory was converted to the manufacture of the Kalashnikov series of firearms, following upon local manufacture of the Rashid.

Hope this helps.
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Didn't you also tell that story of Egyptian Royal bodyguards and their FN 49s, and Farouk's love of fast cars?
 
There is also an Hakim trainer air rifle in .177 if I recall?Harold.............Airgun Headquaters AKA Jim Macrarri has mainsprings for the Hakim airgun
 
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camster said:
Beretta made/converted Hakim .22 Semi. Never heard of an air rifle and, would love to know more.
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I think Anshutz made a small number of air rifles that bore a superficial resemblance to the Hakim and cocked via a lever.

They are quite rare, even rarer than the Beretta .22 trainer.
 
Many years ago I was lucky enough to find an unissued Egyptian FN49. It is one of the sniper versions with the extra sling swivel in front of the magazine. Very well made and a credit to Fabrique Nationale.
 
Yes.

The 'story' about Farouk and his fast driving I got from the man who was being offered the ride. He was a British Army Captain of Intelligence, later became a UCC minister.

Dr. Lightbody (1907 - 1970) was a famed specialist in Mediaeval History and was the orld's authority on Joan of Arc. He was a Rhodes Scholar in 1928 and knew just EVERYBODY. His personal inbsights into the mechanisms of the early 20th Century got him shoved into teaching a course on Twentieth Century in the final years before his death. He had an anti-Fascist radio progam in the US prior to WW2 and during the War was an (unofficial, unpaid but listened-to) advisor to FDR, Mackenzie King and Winston, all at the same time. It was his intention to write me up for a Rhodes, but he had a stroke that night instead. It was my great privilege to have been one of his students in his final 3 years of teaching.
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