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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@Zap_R0sdower]

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

[@larryh502]

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

[@PlakeFilmmaker]

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

[@reddeltaone]

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

[@Lapinmiez]

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 :(

[@bismarckbismarck6352]

The flecktarn desert camo is unbelievable sexy

[@Lapinmiez]

@@bismarckbismarck6352 indeed though that cap aint flecktarn

[@bismarckbismarck6352]

@@Lapinmiez oh, you wrote cap, missed that, I thought you were talking about the pants. But yeah that cap does give me a boner too.

[@jukkatalari3896]

Fleck desert and M05 Desert (or K04) are so close in appearance that I first looked "Wow! Where has Ian gotten K04 pants?" :D Also the pattern of the normal M05 has some similarities to the woodland Fleck, as much that I think Fleck was used as the starting point (though developed quite a lot from that.)

[@themazmanmechanic]

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

[@joe125ful]

Ahahahah:)

[@MiuoTheTroll]

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

[@johneden2033]

A good chunk of Arizona was covered by the sea in the distant past, which is one of the reasons the land from Phoenix to the Mexico border is extremely flat with very fine soil.

[@navywolf1753]

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

[@samkitto3146]

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

[@chuy3162]

Once they implement a bayonet lug adaption.

[@themerrydamber]

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

[@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

[@ulysisxtr]

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

[@GunsNGames1]

Gun Jesus praises the sacrifice of an assault rifle to our glory.

[@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.

[@squidbanter]

Gorlami*

[@Rake3577]

Margheriiiitiiiiii

[@pliskinboi]

Dominic decoco 👌👌

[@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!

[@nathanielkidd2840]

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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@RolandtheThompsonGunner]

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?

[@JoinMeInDeathBaby]

NoT rEaL IsRaelI SaNd!!!!!!11

[@dragonstormdipro1013]

3:14 the GUNDUSTER 3000 looks great

[@yupikgaming4503]

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?

[@shawnc1936]

Chinese video of the qbz95.

[@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!

[@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.

[@smite5555]

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

[@senavicente]

You definitely should hella clean surplus mags

[@brookannewhitney7892]

Maybe you needed to add more sand?

[@zacharyrollick6169]

Are you feeding it Kosher ammo?

[@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.

[@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.

[@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).

[@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

[@twplayer1999]

Maybe dont blow sand into the barrel. Or leave an inert round in.

[@giovannidetorres4373]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@Berthrond]

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

[@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.

[@textB00Kcase]

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.

[@random.3665]

Great idea, sounds like a good way to have standardized test layout.

[@dio3693]

IMO the test wasn't hard enough. You shook and blew the dust out of it too much before trying to chamber a round and fire. I'd suggest wedging an earplug in the muzzle, then dusting the rifle and try firing without clearing any debris first.

[@TheTegas]

Hey have you guys ever handled an ACE? I recently become fascinated with them and would be interested in your thoughts on it.

[@kickapoo621]

I am disappointed, when you said "how do we kick in a lot of dirt" i really thought you where going to start kicking the dirt around the rifle.

[@Paul_Sergeyev]

Please do an AKM sand test. I mean real 7.62 AKM like all those AKMs that are used in literally every bush war around the world.

[@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".

[@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

[@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!

[@ShatnersToupe]

Breaking out the heavy machinery for this video I see.

[@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

[@NinjaEnShort]

Now we can have Ian as "Gun Jesus" in the mexican form ! XD

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@masterof1]

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

[@Gunny426HemiPlymouth]

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

[@alastair852]

Mopar Volkswagen seconded. They’ve done some mud tests on on pistols, but iirc they’ve all been WW2 era. I’d like to see some dust tests of pistols currently in use like berettas and sigs.

[@TurboMeatWagon]

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

[@zebracherub]

Its just sad to see how the desert was littered with paper, plastic, etc when you were blowing dust

[@InrangeTv]

Yes, it is.

[@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?

[@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.

[@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.

[@user-rk2qk9gl8l]

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

[@blancsteve4819]

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

[@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.

[@francomlg]

Good test but I would argue and say that in combat you don’t get to tell the bad guy “time out” let me blow the dust out of my action real quick and maybe change my magazine. I heard that in the Middle East they don’t really lube their aks so I can see why they would be considered more reliable to soldiers as opposed to the heavily lubed M4s. When ever I was in the military they would recommend keeping the m4s heavily lubed.

[@meinauto9048]

It’s kind of sad how misinformed or negligent our military can be on the upkeep of their own firearms. “Lube it up boy! It likes it wet!” Proceeds to turn dust into mud.

[@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.

[@stemapo94]

X95 Sand dirt test please!

[@aluxtaiwan2691]

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

[@dex6147]

Where can I get tropical flecktarn uniforms?

[@koroband.]

asmc

[@glynwelshkarelian3489]

The answer on this channel is always likely to be Varusteleka, finest shop in Finland. I think the trousers on Ian are BW, in which case they've sold out www.varusteleka.com/en/product/bw-desert-trousers-tropentarn-surplus/819

[@Kawawaymog]

Varusteleka

[@tmar697]

Sweet stuff. How does that compare to the FAL since Israel dropped that for the galil because of failure to handle dust

[@vczs]

FAL is a much more delicate tool and it won't perform that well with thay much excessive amount of dust. Good rifle regardless.

[@joe125ful]

Dust test bolt action rifles? 3:19Not really,leaf blower?:):)Or just use hands....

[@SMACK1978]

Leaf blower in the desert LMFAO

[@EchoRabbit]

To be fair, you guys should retest the AR and AK with the new method just to make everything consistent.

[@InrangeTv]

The videos that are already up are more than sufficient.

[@jumperharz6270]

Nice 3-Farb-Flecktarn pants. Looks like the original Bundeswehr surplus. I guess it is.

[@cbuk8691]

It's Finnish Desert. Same as the hat

[@hovojefe]

That blower sucks. If you were using mine you would've covered the gun in sand in about 0.02 seconds

[@terranempire2]

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

[@Anton-iu2rd]

I can never quite tell what Im gonna see in these videos, but Ian with a leafblower wasnt one of them for some reason.

[@st_cutie_]

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

[@jameshaught641]

Genuine question: why not simply pile the sand on top the gun by hand or shovel versus using the leaf blower? Or was the intent to mimic the convoy test? If so I missed that in the video. Otherwise, great content as usual

[@thomassymonds6308]

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

[@adamak47miller90]

I have a AKM Romanian and it's all matching numbers and only the fire control is American made. I have 10 different firearms from century and there all great.

[@that1guyonpoint213]

I would have just buried it in the dust with the muzzle sticking out but I guess the tactical leaf blower works too.

[@JessFromMead]

As the owner of a Golani, I feel redeemed lol

[@EthanBlakeProductions]

🙈 so crunchy 🙉

[@tbnamj]

Saludos desde la República Dominicana excelente vídeo

[@evantemple4341]

In my experience gritty mags are the death of the AR’s reliability.

[@frenchfry1659]

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

[@PJA264]

Galil mags don’t like sand...it’s coarse and rough and irritating...and it gets everywhere

[@DragnslayrSC]

Timber! Steer clear of the brass.

[@haroldlee4037]

Ian gets out of the way of the brass, but the camera fails to duck...

[@usergonemad]

I think the leaf blower is a bad choice here; you're clearly blowing large chunks of grit right down the barrel and chamber, making the test dangerous. That could *REALLY* bite you badly at some point if there's insufficient audible evidence of a bullet failing to exit the barrel.

[@chi7891]

I guess this just means that if you can’t do an extremely tight gun like an AR, this is a good approach. Might malfunction, but reasonably easy to remediate. Probably a better gun for less resourced militaries.

[@flossordie2256]

Hope you guys wear sunscreen out there.