Hey guys, thank you for tuning in to another episode of InRange
We are actually doing another Mud Test today with the SCAR-17 or the SCAR Heavy. This is a .308 variant of the SCAR
Piston run, semi-automatic, used at least to some degree within the US military
...and
We actually borrowed this from someone and shot it at a match and when we received it from him he had modified the gas system
...for his suppressor and we had a couple issues with it
And so we wanted to let you know that if you haven't seen that video yet, we have actually fixed that
We've restored this gas jet to the original military spec
So therefore this gun is unmodified in that regard, so this should be a fair test of the mud
I'm gonna go ahead and fire off
...five rounds in just normal semi-auto clean. We will do our normal thing of mudding up the gun. By the way
...we're using .308 mil...uh, excuse me Austrian surplus Hirtenberger, so it's quality ammo, too
All right. Uh-oh, if I don't put the sights up someone's gonna say I don't have sights, right?
There we go. Now we got sights. All right, five rounds!
It's a nice gun. It's pleasant to shoot. It's pretty sealed up, I think. We're gonna find out what happens here in a moment. On safe!
- He said under no circumstances were we to get it dirty, right?
- Uh, right, that's what he said, correct - Okay
- All right, here we go!
It doesn't balance well on the wheelbarrow, I'm gonna give that a demerit
Let's just that the front end too - Gotta get the gas system! - You wanna give it a little more?
Otherwise, we're gonna hear otherwise
Let's get the other side
That's about as bad as it's ever gonna get - So let's give it a try. I shook it briefly. Off safe! - I think it is
Five rounds, I'm covered in filth. I'm gonna put it back on safe, and we're gonna dump more mud on it
[Spits] Wow, it was bad!
- Was that a fully loaded mag? - Okay - Yes, it was
And it didn't malfunction on you. You just stop after five rounds - Correct
I decided to give it more mud since we had zero issues
Inconceivable! Something must have gone wrong with the mud - Trying to make sure that it goes wrong, right?
We're biased against the SCAR because this was not provided to us by Dixie Waste Works
All right, here we go. I'll dump the mag this time. Ready?
All right, I'm not sure what happened
All right, just ran the action
- I'm getting covered in mud too now - Yeah! - Locked open. I have another mag. Should we try it?
I would say that that one minor malfunction was minor
- Any idea what it was? - I couldn't tell
- The trigger dropped? - Okay - It did, yup.
- Should we mud it again, or should we go with the mag?
- Do one or two rounds and then put some more mud on it - All right, here we go
One thing about piston guns is that they get really hot near the piston. That's why I like DI
Anyways, let do this again
- And this time don't shake it off - Yes! - All right not at all. I'll just eat more mud.
I'm gonna eat a lot of this. Hold on
- You do have a whole bunch of mud on ya - I am, yeah, beyond filthy. You know what? The recoil of a .308 kinda causes that
- You know, there's no mud on the core cut, it's just on your face - All right, here we go!
[now that's what I call mudslinging!]
All right, - That's, uh, pretty effective. I think we can say that passed
- I'm dirty enough to go ahead and say, and the gun is dirty enough to go ahead and say that the SCAR 17
...Heavy has passed the Mud Test. It had one minor malfunction
...which I do not know what it was. Ran the action, chambered a round, and it worked perfectly, so
multiple mag dumps [spits mud out of mouth]
No problems, really, except for one time running the bolt, change the mag, even, still didn't have a problem
So we're gonna add this to the list of guns that have actually passed the InRangeTV Mud Test. These are unusual
We saw the AR passed, we saw the Luger passed, the CETME-L passed, and now the SCAR 17H or SCAR 17
...Heavy has also passed. - And what we can say is that they typically pass when they're sealed up?
It's not about tolerances inside the gun; it's about allowing mud to get into the gun in the first place
- No, I would agree with that. When this bolt is shut
This gun sealed up pretty tight
There's really not a lot of ingress path there
and this being a short stroke gas system piston, and obviously they've done a good job of mitigating mud and
...entry of filth into that. In fact, you can see that
...it's a closed area right this moment except when it's cycling. See that? So it's open now
If there was mud getting in there now, that'd be a problem. But when it's in battery, that's actually sealed up. - Yeah
- So I think what we've seen here
...is they've designed this gun in a way, even actually the charging handle, get in on that, too
The side without the handle is sealed up and the side with it is also sealed up
So this bolt kind of acts like its own dust cover. So you don't have to manually close, so
[mud galore!]
I'm gonna say that in terms of ingress of filth, mud, and dirt, the SCAR 17H is designed extremely well
I think it's actually a really nice .308 rifle, at least in terms of how we've used it
We've heard stories about it not having great service life
But we can't really vouch for that. For our applications, at matches and otherwise those kind of training events that we do
This is pretty much the best of breed .308 semi-auto
...I've personally dealt with and handled. So it also passed the Mud Test which gives it another
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