The Swedish AG42 rifles are direct impingement, 6.5×55 caliber rifles that are quite unique relative to the popular rifles of today. From the way the safety operates to the unique method of charging one, the manual of arms can be hard to learn for modern shooters. Still, the old thumb crusher served Sweden well, and in this field strip we look at what makes them tick.

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– [Voiceover] Hey guys it’s Alex C with TFPTV and today’s field strip we’re going to be taking a look at a Swedish AG42B rifle chambered in 6.5 by 55 Swedish The AG42’s are actually really cool they tap gas from the barrel and send it right into the carrier in true DI fashion unlike AR15 M16 DI which has an internal piston and really is DI as Eugene Stoner the inventor described it in its patents but I digress a liitle but anyways if you’re going to get into Swedish firearms something I would recommend is learning how to read these stock disks, very important I’m considering writing an article on it but I’m not sure how much interest that would generate, but back to the AG42, they’re very cool rifles they have a muzzle break on them it’s basically a bunch of holes drilled directly into the barrel, they have a rubber brass deflector located on the dust cover and then the sights are one of my favorite parts they’re actually very cool to adjust with a little rotating deal there and adjust up to about five or six centimeters.

Now to charge it you push the dust cover forward and pull back, there’s a reason that the Swedes call these thumb crushers, they will seriously make grandthumb look like a booboo it’s like a guillotine for your thumb make sure you have the safety on if you’re going to pull the bolt all the way to the rear and load the rifle, but on to the field strip, what we’re going to do is move the dust cover forward rotate the safety to the middle and then lift the assembly out.

Now this will allow the user to remove the bolt and carrier by simply sliding it to the rear.

So this part of the field strip is actually pretty simple, I must say these are a real pleasure and easy to maintain you can remove the magazine, not entirely necessary but they really weren’t designed to be switched in combat.

Now you’re going to want to remove the bolt from the carrier assembly by just pulling from the rear and lifting out at the same time.

Now the next part is my least favorite it’s the carrier and the dust cover are spring loaded and there’s a little tab on the rear, so press that tab on the ground and make sure that the carrier doesn’t fly off into your drywall because it does have enough pressure to do that.

As you saw when I was explaining the thumb crushing capabilities.

But, simplicity is beauty here because that’s all it takes to field strip and maintain your AG42, the Swedes really thought these out well they actually sold license built copies rather than machinery to make license built copies to the Egyptians with the Akeem rifle which is chambered in eight millimeter, I wish I had a Akeem as well but I do have a Rashid which is a scaled down Akeem in 762 by 39 which we have done a video about so we do have an upcoming run and gun with the AG42 and we hope you enjoyed seeing the guts of this rifle because it’s just kind of cool when a gun is this simple and yeah this week’s did a great job thanks to Ventura Munitions, we hope to see you next week.