Ljungman AG-42 / AG-42B self-loading rifle (Sweden)

i've got a couple , unfortunatly one is missing the mag when i bought it ......

it seems that a mg-13 mag will work with some fitting ... but i haven't found a canadian source yet .

i've been thinking about fitting a scope to one .... but i'm hesitant to mark up a relitively very clean rifle .

if you reload use a powder in the burn range of imr 4064 so the shells eject properly .
i've found that imr 4831 burns too slow creating too much pressure in the gas system . this is using 140 grain bullets .
not sure if a adjustable gas system that the hakim uses can be fitted to the swedish rifle .
 
Brutus said:
From what I've read the Swedish G3A3 (Ak4) was not made/adopted until 1965 or so.
Trivia: The present issue service rifle is a modified FN FNC, aptly called the Ak5. I am unsure when this FNC, became standard issue to the Swedish army.
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I'm assuming the AK4 is prohib as a variant of the G3, no? It would be nice for me to have one, my dad dragged one around during his year of conscription in Sweden some decades ago. Apparently the main complaint of them was the plastic stock was prone to cracking.
 
Think of it as a Tokarev or an FN-FAL with an M-16 gas system and a tricky cocking mechanism and you're in the ballpark.

Likely the single most accurate semi-auto rifle ever built. I have absolutely NO idea why they are still so cheap.

Burn rate is important. Swedish military ammo, like nearly ALL military ammo, was loaded with quite a quick powder: takes less of it to achieve the desired ballistic performance. five or 10 grains may not be a lot to a handloader, but if you're loading 40 or 50 million rounds of something, those five and 10-grain increments add up to a lot of tonnage.... which has to be paid for, stored, shipped, lugged into a fight and so forth.

Best way to stop the AG-42B from winging its brass 30 yards at a whack is to get a proper maintenance kit for it. The Swedes changed the aperture in the gas system, allowing different amounts of gas to impinge on the bolt carrier. This aperture burned larger in service. It is stainless steel and, if you can't get one, it is possible to weld it up and re-drill to a smaller aperture. There also ARE ways of fitting a gas-limiting screw to the gas takeoff, but this is not collector-grade fixing.

I was told that the SS tried a very few out (perhaps a few dozen) on the Russian Front. Finland was given or sold a batch right after War Two; these could have been used against the USSR in the nastiness that followed upon Finland's reluctance to rejoin the happy community of Eastern European Socialist states. Denmark also got a bunch of these right after the Occupation ended, before they started getting US equipment.

Golden State Arms valued these things at $1100 in their 1955 catalogue; gold was 35 bucks a Troy ouce (Roosevelt price). Gold today is US$1125 a Troy ounce and the rifles are going begging at under 300 loon-stamped slugs.

Something is wrong, that's for sure.
 
Mammoth said:
I'm assuming the AK4 is prohib as a variant of the G3, no? It would be nice for me to have one, my dad dragged one around during his year of conscription in Sweden some decades ago. Apparently the main complaint of them was the plastic stock was prone to cracking.
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Yes prohib unfortuneately here.
Interesting your father was a Swedish conscript. You know for a European army, those Swedes took military service seriously. During a military skills competition overseas,
(a long long time ago for me) we kicked ass against the Brits (3 Para) But the Swedish troops were a different story all together. We barely beat them in this competition. I am talking about seconds for the "forced march", and something like one point in front of the Swedish troops, in the metallic falling plate shoot. Yes, conscripts from Sweden, definitealy a different breed of 'draftie.'
 
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