Dust Test: 5.56 Golani (Galil Rebuild)

In this video we continue our dust test series with a Century Arms Golani, which is a parts kit build of the Israeli Galil.
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[@1804unclesam]

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

[@Rltvader1]

@@SonOfTheDawn515 Adam and Jamie don't hate each other, they work professionally but aren't in each other's social circles. They are co-workers, not friends

[@LUR1FAX]

@@Rltvader1 Well, they *were* co-workers. After Mythbusters ended, they said they would prefer to never work together again.

[@KieferSmokerland]

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.

[@DeadPollo]

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

[@joe125ful]

True!

[@brancaleone8895]

now i want leaf test too

[@robertscott2210]

Pollo DiGomma The WW1 vintage shovel must've been out for repair.

[@TheBebop51]

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

[@beardoggin8963]

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

[@gunsngunpla]

2014 called. They want their meme back.

[@beardoggin8963]

29 people so far has disagreed with your worn out meme as well

[@beardoggin8963]

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis uh no, at the time I posted that reply my comment had 29 likes to his silly comment. Now it is up to 58

[@10mikemikeshooter]

I miss the kubelwagon...😔

[@Dominik189]

Me too :(

[@microcolonel]

Bad when you get injured. They now drive automatic when they're in the desert.

[@Brendan7.62]

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

[@nesonecommin]

I was also wondering why a person would own a leaf blower in the desert. And what looks to be a fairly heavy duty one at that

[@danieljcall3811]

Gotta get the sand off your car after a dust storm after work somehow

[@French_Cumnuck]

Dust storms I’m guessing

[@armedpartisan]

My buddy had a house in North Las Vegas; it had Astroturf in the front yard, since it was too hot and dry for real grass. His HOA got on his case for not sweeping off his astroturf often enough, which became dusty, and trapped blown leaves and twigs in it. The solution? A leaf blower.

[@danieljcall3811]

Joe Ç a dust storm has already sand blasted a car as would driving to a car wash and unfortunately hot dessert climate can put washing a car very low on the priority list due to value of water.

[@frenchfry1659]

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

[@aaronschmidt169]

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!

[@st_cutie_]

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

[@bradmarthafocker4285]

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

[@nicholasmaugeri759]

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!

[@chrisdooley8155]

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.

[@redrackham6812]

Hear, hear!

[@demonprinces17]

Love these tests

[@SportbikerNZ]

Keen to see more of these dust/sand tests.

[@NaginataMike]

Thanks for your work.

[@milkcratedon1917]

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

[@abelincoln95]

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

[@gunnarhassing5875]

Well the leaf blower passes the test flawlessly.

[@dragonstormdipro1013]

3:14 the GUNDUSTER 3000 looks great

[@OctaneSlain]

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

[@TheMCD1989]

I'm really kicking myself for not buying one when Century was still selling them, they were only $550 if I remember right. Which was a lot for an AK type rifle 6, 7 or 8 years ago. I've seen them up to $1200 now, haven't looked in a few months though.

[@OctaneSlain]

@@TheMCD1989Browsing Armslist, I've come across some around $750 ~ $850 (albeit they're nowhere local to me, unfortunately) which doesn't seem too bad. I'd happily pay $800 for one with a few mags if one popped up locally (East TN)

[@beardoggin8963]

Austin Akens these rifles are so cool! But it is my understanding that the mags for these are pretty hard to find and rather expensive

[@larryh502]

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

[@kuttinkuddy3905]

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

[@wurfyy]

I had to lug one around through 11 months of conscription and now it's my least favorite AK-pattern weapon. Lube makes all the difference, we did use lube and my gun jammed if I got anywhere near sand. Also, the Galil is literally THE heaviest assault rifle that I know of. Maybe some early AK variants were worse, I don't know for sure, but 4kg for a 5.56 NATO weapon is way too much.

[@Rambozo79]

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

[@tallman2210]

Even better with an Isreali FAL.

[@TelPrank]

FAL has been already tested a lot - always failed to function with dirt or sand. Its a great battle rifle yes, iconic, but...keep it clean

[@biggysnaps2827]

@@TelPrank iconic is about where it ends.

[@WalterBurton]

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

[@badcompanym44]

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.

[@rob9472]

Ian gives new meaning to sandblasting.

[@idontwanttoputmyname403]

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.

[@Resident-GunGuy]

I really like that KZbin auto subtitles translates the leaf blower sounds as applause and laughter.

[@jimmyhoffa2816]

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

[@armedpartisan]

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).

[@tbnamj]

Saludos desde la República Dominicana excelente vídeo

[@ltnitmare]

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

[@nicholasmaugeri759]

Ian really enjoyed that Leaf Blower lmao

[@ducksrgud]

This makes me want a Galil even more...

[@Rhethion]

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.

[@albertf.9198]

Real guy stuff a guy really needs to know.

[@reddeltaone]

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

[@senavicente]

Love these

[@Broken_Yugo]

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.

[@InrangeTv]

Not going there. No point and it'll just be endless REEEeee. This is consistent.

[@thomassymonds6308]

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

[@beardoggin8963]

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.

[@Ihasanart]

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.

[@sewing1243]

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.

[@themazmanmechanic]

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

[@joe125ful]

Ahahahah:)

[@kenhelmers2603]

Cool Thanks guys!

[@terranempire2]

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

[@donaldengelmann6906]

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

[@themerrydamber]

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

[@geronimo5537]

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".

[@nicoaalderink5924]

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.

[@MrSuperPandas]

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.

[@user-rk2qk9gl8l]

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

[@milesgerschefske6231]

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.

[@filipskotnica971]

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...

[@w.grimminc1416]

In the first test he did blow the sand out of the receiver @5:10

[@filipskotnica971]

@@w.grimminc1416 Yeah you're right. My bad

[@davidcassidy602]

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

[@five5105]

I do believe they shove an earplug down the muzzle for most tests.

[@daytonrobbins3361]

Balloon over barrel held on with rubber band

[@IndianaJoe3]

@@daytonrobbins3361 I think a condom is traditionally used for that.

[@navywolf1753]

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

[@GUNSLINGER471]

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

[@weasle2904]

Check their original convoy test.

[@_car5323]

Yeah, in the convoy tests even when they were kicking it directly onto the rifles it was mostly finer stuff that had been powdered by traffic on that trail.

[@TchotchkeSoldier]

It be perfect if they magically obtain a g11 for the moon dust test.

[@Gonzo.S.Thompson]

Moon dust would only be valid for Space force weapons.

[@jjtomecek1623]

@@weasle2904 I honestly wonder why they didn't go with the moon dust like last time. I guess they were just in a better area or something?

[@Klovaneer]

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

[@HustleMuscleGhias]

You're hired, Karl.

[@StrangerOman]

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.

[@LionofCaliban]

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.

[@walrusmilk3744]

There Be Game or the garand

[@LionofCaliban]

@@walrusmilk3744 Completely the same action and vulnerability if I remember correctly. Why not? That being said, I seem to remember a AK type not doing so well, that might have been a mud test, as opposed to a dust test. Something about the locking shoulders, locking surfaces getting gunked up.

[@mcqueenfanman]

The m14 has a roller bolt. It could be a problem or not.

[@LionofCaliban]

@@PureCountryof91 The entire point. If they want to make sure the tests are good, choose the one which had the most obvious failure. If I remember correctly, this one they couldn't even get the op rod to move, at all. It sounds like they want to recheck their results on a new method. It's the best failure I can think of.

[@PlakeFilmmaker]

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

[@flobert9584]

It'd be interesting to compare the same rifle in different states of lubrication - just to get a feel for what to expect

[@Berthrond]

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

[@aaronkeller7182]

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

[@SootHead]

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.

[@yukupovaccinated4]

L85A1 mud test

[@victormihaylov3905]

plot twist, it work better after.

[@listek981]

It wouldn't pass air test.

[@pluemas]

youd be surprised, I ran the cadet version of the L85 and surprisingly i never once had a malfunction that couldnt be cleared by running the action. These guns were never greased or properly cleaned and ran almost only on blanks so they were filthy. Dust I think it would struggle with, but mud i think it would surprise you.

[@matthewpham9525]

Scruff McFluff Isn’t the cadet version manually operated?

[@Matt-Durham]

L85A2/3 would be awesome to see

[@gideonsimmons8015]

Ak is awesome I'm really sure my Yugoslav SKS would be great in a dust test

[@aluxtaiwan2691]

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

[@Sealab21]

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

[@sethmoyer]

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

[@InrangeTv]

It was acquired with Patreon support for these tests.

[@sethmoyer]

@@InrangeTv That makes sense. I thought maybe you used it to herd tumbleweeds.

[@a.c.m.4548]

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

[@ssreeser95]

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.

[@Matt-Durham]

L85A2/3 would be awesome to see. Best of the British

[@otto6702]

More dust tests please

[@smokeytokyo4553]

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

[@cornholio747]

Id love to see a G3 pattern rifle go through the ringer. When you guys did the mud test, it held up decent, but you did mention the pic of the guy shielding the ejection port from sand.

[@biggysnaps2827]

That was purely conjecture on Karl's part. He even admitted it later on.

[@giovannidetorres4373]

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

[@brasstard7.627]

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

[@scottwatrous]

Yeah there's a billion forms of dust/sand/etc. This looks like some fucky sand tho when it comes to things to subject a gun to. Fine powdery dust probably is only a major problem when you have a gun lubed up.

[@soonersmith4179]

That was some Gritty content

[@Tauridballistics]

Today on InRange home & gardening....

[@dickcaughtinfan9764]

Great test, The findings with crap getting in near the chamber and magazine is odd. How do dirty magazines, perhaps exposed to similar conditions to the rifle fair?

[@RTJsims]

@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!

[@duncansq47]

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

[@Oscarmike247]

Would be interested in this as well

[@Revener666]

not in this style. AK and Galil are almost the same gun though.

[@bearjew05]

Nothong would perform flawlessly when hit with a leaf blower and sand

[@TurboMeatWagon]

i dub thee, the sandstorm test. seems like a good consistent way to test durability. can we name the leaf blower ?

[@larryjohnson150]

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

[@TheAKgunner]

The Kalashnikov rifle has a bit of a cult following. Mostly due to it's reliability.

[@masterof1]

Can you do a sand test with the fal vs the g3 vs the m1a? Also can we see some pistol sand tests?

[@SkarnDeBrax]

It's really a funny an nice job to have ;-)

[@albertf.9198]

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

[@Headsuporheadstone]

I sure would love to see how a Daewoo K2\DR200 would fair as well.

[@secondamendment8773]

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.

[@FearlessLeader2001]

We need an FAL too!

[@blancsteve4819]

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

[@MilsurpWorld]

Are you going hold the bolt open, dump the excess sand out and blow into the action of all the guns in future dirt tests? Seems like if you do it for one you have to do it for all. Great video like usual, always cool to see these sorts of tests being done.

[@InexorWoW]

Kel Tec RDB in this test, that seems a toss if the buffer on the rear of the bolt's travel will get full of dirt like it did mud.

[@CommodoreFluffy]

Wait, new question. Since dust and rocks get bound by liquid lubricants, might it be a good idea to use a dry lubricant like graphite in situations where you know you're going to a firefight in a sand blasting cabinet?

[@franktalarico689]

Would you guys give the galil ace a mud test? I'm interested how it would perform compared to an ar.

[@a.ovation2086]

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.

[@ShatnersToupe]

Breaking out the heavy machinery for this video I see.

[@JenniferinIllinois]

A leaf blower? I can't with these two. 🤣🤣🤣