The Mythbusters of the firearms world, always fun y’all.

After watching Ian's Q&A 24 I decided to chime in here. I trained with a variant of this rifle (R4) as my service weapon in the Namib desert in the mid 80's (2nd South African Battalion Group, Walvis Bay). Sandstorms were a regular occurrence and our R4s performed well in these tough conditions. The Golani performed about as I expected. The integral bipod was mostly used in the 99.9 % of the time you were not shooting. You inevitably have to put your rifle down to do push ups or dig a hole or whatever. When you are in a world sized sand box the bipod saves you from repeating your dust test every time you have to put your rifle down.

test invalid: used a leaf blower, not a sand blower

The Mud/dust stuff is my favorite series y'all do to view as a whole collection of information.

You know what would be a good soundtrack to this? *Darude Sandstorm*

I miss the kubelwagon...😔

The golani is a great rifle, i had one years ago and loved it, definitely one of the few century arms that i would actually recommend buying, great video as always guys!

Some people wonder why Karl has so many guns, I wonder why Karl owns a leaf blower in the desert

The wind-blowing method used in the video, are top quality realism.

Can't get enough dust on your rifle by attaching it to the front of a car and driving behind another car? Leaf blower can.

Ya'll should include dust tests in the Levergun project, both of the Trapdoor and the 1886. They were hauled around in the dust of the Southwest, after all.

As soon as I can find one of these for sale, I'm snatching one up.

All things considered, I'm impressed with that level function. No show stoppers, just clearing & getting into battery... Not too bad.

I'm crying. That's my favorite ak variety..

3:14 the GUNDUSTER 3000 looks great

Great point at 2:19 any gun and all will fail let's take it up a notch see what comes out ahead. Love your shows keep it up guys the AP and API is really what we all want to know but can't for anyreason.

I had no idea that Gun Jesus was a practitioner of the landscaping arts!

Naturally, you must do a FAL test next. Considering the claims made against the rifle under Sandy environments.

Well the leaf blower passes the test flawlessly.

Another amazing video from InRange, thank you guys for doing what you do.

3 minutes in but I fully support the change of testing method as y'all blowing sand on a rifle with a leaf blower is equally entertaining

I hope I can pass a Psych test after watching this S&M firearms video. At least there was no leather attire involved.

Ian gives new meaning to sandblasting.

Dust tests are probably more accurate of what combat arms encountered in most of the 20th century. There's so many interesting arms which saw service in the Middle East, some exclusively (Hakim, Rashid, SAFN49, Israeli FAL, this Galil/Golani, AKMs, SKSes, etc).

Next up the forest fire test. We will lean this Cali compliant rifle against a burning shed and then see if it goes bang.

Karl/Ian have a nice leaf blower, or should i say: sand storm maker 5000!

I used to have a golani but sold it for a surplus M16A1 parts kit after I noticed peening inside the receiver. The weight reduction going from galil to M16 was dramatic, and I feel like I got a much better rifle overall. The galil sounds like a great rifle, but I learned to hate milled receiver AKs and 5.56mm AKs.

My Theory for the 2 different reliability results: What happened in the first test (the one with the "bad" magazine) is the sand you didn't yet blow out from the receiver, went into the mag, and then caused the problems. In the second test you actually did blow out the sand from the receiver, so it couldn't get into the mag while the rifle was being fired. Therefore the second test ran fine...

I get running them bone dry for consistency, but I think it would also be interesting to see the ones that do well dry tested again lubed up by the book (latest available military manual) with the specified lubricants.

I don't know about anyone else, but I'd really like to see each firearm disassembled (and the mags) on camera so we can see where else the dust or mud went.

Well done gentlemen. In my opinion you should keep up this series, it's extremely interesting content.

yay! feels like forever since the "Ian and Karl GunShow"

This and all those mud test keep delivering the resounding conclusions that pebbles and gravel are probably the worst detriment, something the silt had little of. And the convoy test is limley much easier on the gun and certianly far more cinematic ..... Great content as always

You guys need to find moon dust, that's what sticks to weapons the most if you're going to do sand test

So...... a M1A/M14 up next then? If I remember that test it was the exposed op rod that got so gummed up it wouldn't shift.

Now reverse the roles, use the Golani to shoot dust in to the leafblower and see if it works afterwards.

What might be a better assesment of the gun is to sand it up with a magazine full of dummy rounds, then switch it out for a live magazine before the shooting test. This way you remove the possibility of a magazine failure and are focusing purely on the guns performance. It would also add consitancy to the chamber clearing you where doing by blowing out the dust as the majority of the loose sand/dust should fall free then.

I agree 100%. Run em dry (like you have) and scrap the more variable (if delightful) theatrics of the drive. Simple and simply fair. 👍👍👍

Guys thanks for this video! I have been on the fence about getting one and just picked one up the other day and Love it!

Also they probably switched testing again because all that dirt is hell on their vehicles and was insane to clean out. Plus for the other reasons listed. =p Still loved seeing Galil in action and she did very well! Though I am starting to believe this needs to be named the "blow test".

Now even more I want to see the ACE get this.

Thanks for your work.

Please watch out for barrel obstructions with this test! I don’t want to see another medic after-action-report video from you two.

Real guy stuff a guy really needs to know.

Saludos desde la República Dominicana excelente vídeo

Keen to see more of these dust/sand tests.

For the next test I would suggest FAL rifle. As I understood, the Galil was designed because the Israelian army had serious reliability problems with the FAL in dusty desert conditions where in the rest of the world the FAL was considered to be a very reliable rifle.

L85A1 mud test

Ian really enjoyed that Leaf Blower lmao

My standard for the dust and mud test is how easy it is to remediate the stoppages and get the gun working again. You are going to have failures in any gun but can you clear it out enough to not brick the gun. This one looks like a winner from that viewpoint.

So when will we be seeing a mud test on the leaf blower?

More like an arroyo little tiny pebble test than dust!! Cool though!

That's quite a fancy leaf blower for someone who lives in the desert...

Two ideas for future test, hi-point vs 1911 vs glock Other ar15 with lightened bcgs (maybe test the wwsd with sharps extreme performance bcg a another super lightweight bcg and mil spec bcg) this will give the ar15 platform a baseline on your new test procedure and give interesting take on the ak argument about open space helps evacuate contaminates.

This makes me want a Galil even more...

Listening to Ian pronounce Galil like it's French is hilarious.

The AG42 ljungman , if only to watch your fear of the reload :)

It would be cool to see this done with a galil ace to see how effective the sping loaded dust cover is.

@inrangtv a couple of things you said in passing gave me a few ideas. First. Is there a way to quantify remediation. I know you are not necessarily going for a strictly scientific test; however, I think it would be very useful to keep a metric of how many different thing you tried to remove debris. Categorize them by what was an obvious safety hazard and had to be done before safe firing could be reasonably assured, and actions that were called for after the malfunction of the firearm or to get the weapon to function in the first place (blowing into the action and dumping the dirt out before chambering the first round, for example). Recording what techniques worked, how many were needed, and how many times each technique would an interesting metric to factor into which weapon performed better or worse than its competitors. The second thing that occurred to me is this. Lubrication. I am in complete agreement with you that the initial tests be run dry. However, it is fairly common idea to use lubrications as mediation in lue of cleaning in a pinch. My idea here was to add lubrication after the last dose of sand. See how much you need (if it is indeed a need) and how each weapon reacts to the addition of lubricant. It would almost be more interesting to see which weapons performance actually deteriorated with this addition, than which weapons improved. Ultimately it’s your show, I am but a lowly fan. I will continue to enjoy all of your work, however you go about accomplishing it. Excellent video as always guys!

Love these tests

If you stand farther back with the leaf blower you’ll get less rocks and finer dust.

Since this is a new test do a WWSD test.. (as a baseline)

Yeah kid like to see the ak and ar again with this test style to compare

I’m amazed at how many people get offended by the fact that an AR will beat an AK in a mud test.

Weird, you have similar sand in arizona is we do in finland. Welp, time to read about ice age effects on arizona I guess.

When will we see military adoption of the M1 tactical leaf-blower for desert theatres do you think?

I would love to see SG550 dust or mud test Attempt#2

You're hired, Karl.

Im so jealous for that m05 desert cap. I wanted one so badly but they runned out immediately and i dont know are there any more coming out :(

What we need is the same test with an AR, an M1, and a FAL to see relative performance of each.

AK behaves like an AK, more news at 11. Still entertaining as you guys always are.

I'm looking forward to future vids in this series, would be interesting to see how the Galil's predecessors in Israeli service cope with this test.

NoT rEaL IsRaelI SaNd!!!!!!11

Might be interesting to show the cleanup afterwards. Also, I'd suggest double-timing the leaf blower parts to speed up that rather boring part.

Is it just me, or does Karl’s hat match Ian’s trousers? It’s like Ian decided he liked Karl’s hat better, and traded.

I think the Galil ace would compete with the AR honestly. Do it. I'll send you my LWRC and Ace for it. Unless there's already a video on it that you guys did.

I'd be interested to see the prior 2 dust tests re-done with the new method.

So yeah, as much as a convoy test is cool, but this proper "I lost my rifle in the desert, I hope it still works" kinda more interesting. I do recall a shooting tests you did while having a dust wind while shooting. It's all cool.

Ian watching the spent brass flying over his head made me chuckle I dont know why. I guess he said no I'm not moving lol

Breaking out the heavy machinery for this video I see.

The sand in this test was not the “talcum powder” dust that was in the convoy tests so I think you need to repeat the AK and AR tests using these conditions.

I love these mud/dust test videos but this one seemed a bit dangerous. You guys are the experts though I dont know jack.

My golani was like this with no sand added. I wonder if all four mags I had were bad. Maybe I should have cleaned them out

We need an FAL too!

I see Y'all doing good work testing firearms with arid and muddy conditions but is there any media regarding testing firearms in extreme cold weather/salt spray conditions like you would find in Rural Coastal Alaska?

That was some Gritty content

Did one of you already own the leaf blower or did you have to buy/borrow it? I can't imagine needing a leaf blower in the desert for lawn maintenance.

Repeatable test.. Use a 50 gallon drum with the blower mounted through a hole in the bottom of the drum to "swirl" the dust around the weapon . Use the same material (dust) in the drum each time to the same level. Time how long the blower is one for and use that every time.

Cool Thanks guys!

spt! spt! ptttt! Damn dust in my mouth just watching this!

Why do I have visions of Ian going to a big box home improvement store, in Arizona, trying to explain to the salesperson what a leaf blower is.... and why he wants one.

Just a reminder, rifles aren't the only gun on the battlefield, can we get some Mossberg 590s or Remington 870s out there sometime?

As the owner of a Golani, I feel redeemed lol

So Karl gets a new leaf blower for Christmas. He says "What the hell am I gonna do with a leaf blower in the sandy desert???" *** light bulb goes off in his head ***

Chamber a blank round as a plug if you are going use the J. Edgar on 'em mate.

You guys need the moon dust from Afghanistan. A nice film on location in a tropical paradise.....

I'd like to see you guys mud and dust test a Daewoo K2

The blower is ingenius; it seems to force sand into the rifle even better than burying the gun would! In a P&S modcast, Chuck Pressburg described how he carried his M4 dry on missions in the sandbox . If an engagement required more than one mag, he would squirt lube into the receiver when he reloaded

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You should do a mud test with it