All right, so we have our M1 rack rated [CMP] Garand here [eight] rounds of ammunition
We're going to fire all those eight rounds to prove that the guns working
We're going to reload again put it on safe
Dunk it in this soupy mud mix and we're going to find out what happens to the gun after that
rifle I should say
So you ready to load?
Gun runs fine that seems to be pretty much flawless. No problem whatsoever
All right Safety's on. Ready?
That is [oh] oh man. Oh
George Patton is going to kick your ass. (Karl) He's dead
How's that? I think you should make sure that oh yeah, that's
that's uh pretty muddy there ah
That's worse than a fall
That's a fall into a mud bog. Alright, you ready?
Yep
Here we go
Not even one round. We're done
We're done didn't even fire the first one. No it dry
It clicked hammer fall didn't fire the primers imma have to breathe behind the hammer it wouldn't fire the round
(Jeez) Ran the action... it's so fouled. I can't even chamber the next round. Well, that's pretty much just like the M1A that
We tried can't go into battery oh
We got low stuff on that
Can't even get the clip out
Yeah, we're done. I can't even get the clip out. So the problem [is] that open slot right behind the rear sight?
This filled with Debris yep
The Hammer fell it was impeded by the Debris in the action did not fire the first round ran the action
The Debris behind the extractor got clogged up did not pull the round out
We're now double fed and the clip will not eject. (Ian)Let me get it a close up in there
Ew!
All right, well
That is [a] pretty short quick and dirty video of what happens when you get M1 covered in mud
Let's run water over it clean it up fire another round
See if we can do a little bit milder test, but I mean this actually did worse than the M14 yeah
[and] in fact the firing pin is protruding
[Jeez]
It's hard to even find the firing pin in there. That's over all right. Let's wash it up. Oh yeah
This is the way you do it
Woah, it's like big ol' rocks in there
Let's see if we can get that clip out.
There we go.
God let's rinse this out some more
Here's another thing you don't think about
Because there's a closed bottom with a pool of water in
The bottom of the action that's true when you pull a magazine out that would normally displace
But it's actually puddling in the bottom of the magazine well...clip well
Yep, right down in this is the problem. Yeah here. All right. Let's rinse that out
That looks better. Yeah, I think we're good okay
All right, so we had to take the whole gun apart... still hard to open
But we have to take the receiver out clean it all out with water
That was fouling in the receiver, in the stock, in the trigger control group, in the trigger group/fire group
So we're going to put a mag in or clip in we're going to run a couple of rounds
if we can, eugh
Man was Even hard
We're in battery! Let's see if we can get two rounds out of it at this point
(Had) to fight a rock. Behind the trigger. To get the first shot off okay. We have a round chambered okay [on] safe
Do it again?
How do we do this any less horrible?
That's it like that. [yeah] one
What do you think? (Ian) well, so the thing is we know it'll die if we get really [any] mud on that operatic track
Let's do this
How's that, okay? Kind of ... we're being generous yep? We're avoiding that all right
So [we've] got six more rounds in here. We're a little careful about this ingress point. We're going to fire some rounds
(Ian) What do we have? (Karl) It's unsafe. It's not going to go into battery.
[it's] cycled it fired one round it tried to cycle. It will not go back into battery
There's too much Debris in the Op track in the tracks inside and outside for it to go into battery [okay]?
There's rocks in the locking lugs. I tried to clear out my fingers couldn't get it off. So I'm not going to fire
It's unsafe yeah, well, that's pretty much exactly what we saw with the M1A
This was a little worse actually but very similar. Reminiscent. Let's see if we can get the clip out. Ready? (yep)
Yep, we were able to do that
So let's get some video inside the gun
[it's] pretty muddy and nasty in there, so the trick there was not getting mud and Debris into that ingress point
But it still foul it failed after one shot
All right, so we finally got to do something that's been requested for a long time
Yep again courtesy of Patreon supporters absolutely an M1 garand mud test yep
When we did the M14 or M1A test, a lot of people are like well? That's not fair
It's in that modified Troy stock. I think as it's not in its original stock it's not in the [original] configuration
We had some people even complained that it was an M1A and not an M14 like that's what it made a difference that doesn't
Make a difference, but the stock
It didn't but okay. It's arguable willing to throw that out there. So here it is a cMP
UsGi M1 garand from
Rack raid yeah, but we [functioned] tired. It worked great. It really did yeah, it's great right out of the box
we loaded up some ammunition, then we dunked it in the mud and
Dead yeah the M1 Garand has the reputation of being [the] fantastic rifle
it still is it's a great rifle because in 1936 this was amazing [top-of-the-line] [top-of] yeah cutting-edge technology and
The U.S. had the ability to make this yep
and no one else did right right that was part of it the other thing is this really was a more refined and Durable and
effective
Semi-Auto Combat rifle than anybody else had [know] I mean there were other
Combat rifles issued semi-auto before this the French had one in world war one and there were some others floating around
But really this is like the first of the next generation of combat rifles and the u.s.
Fielded it as its primary yeah rifle for its armed forces - in world war two unique to the rest of the world so in
Context of when it was used it was a fantastic gun it still is a fantastic gun
it's just not as reliable as stuff that we've developed in the
Shoot 80 years since the M1 was first adopted no
But this is still a viable combat rifle sure now it's it's it's I'd rather have more than eight rounds at a time
But I wouldn't use the word obsolete, but you're definitely behind the curve when using an M1 Garand obsolescent
I believe obsolescent something so here's the deal. This is where you see in the military this doctrine of keep here
Take care of your rifle, because it'll take care of you yep
and that's true and
Doing this what we did with it is not taking care of your right and not by along just the inverse of that
So if you were to fall in the mud of that severity you would pretty much know your M1 is done right at that point
Especially in world war [two] you didn't expect to just you know wipe the sights off and go on shooting at that point
You know it's okay
I need a new gun or I'm going to take some time sit down pull us apart and clean it yep
So and there's probably another one laying somewhere nearby to pick up, but that being said I need it right away. [yes]
So in summary the first time we used it we loaded up around block clip paper house fire without what it's clean yep
great
Sticking another in block clip [saved] [it] put [it] in the mud
Piled the mud on wouldn't even fire one round right it was mud that ingress [tip] behind the apparat in that little cutout it got
In front of the hammer and prevented it from hitting the front
So then we cleaned it off with water got it all clean which was [at] [roar]
we took polygons apart put it back together fired some more rounds clean safe to put it back in the mud pile it up and
And a little more careful, and we fired one shot
And then it mouth so what we're seeing here are two different places where the gun is vulnerable to mud
One is the op rod track and the bolt lug tracks which is that's the that was the failure we had on the second time
You get a little bit of mud in there, and then there just isn't enough space for the lugs to go into battery
Then you also have the problem of the opening behind the rear sight where the bolt travels on recoil that?
Lets get in and getting into the fire control group, and that was the problem
We saw on the very first time interesting to [note] the first time I couldn't even eject the [em] Block clip
Yeah, it was that seized yeah, the second time
I was able to eject the [em] block clip, but the second failure is if I recall
Identical yeah to what we experienced with the M1A
Fired one round, it wouldn't go [into] battery yeah same thing yep. It's ostensibly the same
God it really is they
this part of the mechanism is
Identical yeah for all practical the gas system is different and the magazine feed but other than that
It's the same action yep, so it's [the] great gun it deserves a reputation
It has it is not that reliable it's important to understand
What it truly is because it's not magic in context anyways
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