Swedish AGm/42B

[surpman1911]

So this isn't Swiss but I couldn't find a Swedish rifle forum. I would just like to know a little bit about these rifles and what the difference is between it and the more common AG/42B. For an original AGm/42B, what should I expect to pay?
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[Badger]

Does this manual in the MKL help?

Automatgevär m/ 42 B Manual
A translation from the 1969 Swedish Army Manual
Translated by Anders & Petter.

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Regards,
Doug

[surpman1911]

sorry It appears I made a mistake. I meant to say that an AG/42 made before the improvements and then modified to the AG/42B

[jmoore]

Have never seen a straight AG42. Would have to think a few hundred more than the usual.

[surpman1911]

So I found out that only 30,000 of them were made but were stopped so modifications could be made. They started manufacturing the AG/42B from the factories and then made the modifications to the few rifles made before the modifications were added making.

[Comrade Mike]

The differences, off the top of my head, between the ag42 and the 42b are as follows.

Added the rubber brass bumper to save damage to brass for reloading

Added those two lumps on the dust cover to facilitate manipulation with gloved hands. Previously there were just serrations.

Replaced the gas tubes with stainless steel gas tubes due to corrosion issues with the original gas tubes.

Added a secondary magazine catch due to issues with magazines being blown out of the gun with older ammunition of a slower burn rate.

Those were the major changes that I can recall without looking it up.

I'm fairly sure that of the 30k AG-42's made they were all made as AG-42's originally in the span of 43-44 if I have the years right. They were then converted in the early fifties, and the swedes did a rather thorough job of it. I don't believe any were manufactured originally as AG-42B's, but I've been wrong before.

Unconverted AG-42's do exist, as do AG-42b's converted to .308 for the switch into NATO. But both are extremely rare commanding very high prices. I believe there is one .308 AG-42 living in a museum in Sweden, and I've seen photos of at least one unconverted AG-42 in the states, but don't ask me who has it.