G43 mud test.

What would possess someone to abuse any rifle like this is beyond me, and then you consider the age/value/heritage of this particular one and you just want to slap them.
 
Wow, I already disliked these 2 guys videos but this just pushed them to my top of my do not watch list. How idiotic is it to do that
 
Interesting comments.

Personally I find it quite interesting seeing how things potentially performed. There method is somewhat scientific and they have tested many different firearms similarly and gotten many interesting results. At least they video record the results and share them so if others have similar questions they can see the results themselves.

Studying firearms and the history behind them isn't always about keeping them in a safe where nothing bad can happen to them. Realistically what's the potential harm to this rifle? A little bit of bluing loss, maybe? Once it is cleaned up you literally wouldn't even know a test like this was done, and the reason we know this is many military surplus firearms have been through the same or worse and you can't tell which was and wasn't. Repeated and constant exposure is a different thing, but doing a test like this once isn't going to do much harm.
 
What a moron, just keep grinding the sand and gravel into the action with every pull on the charging handle! Keep the barrel in the sand like you did before the water rinse!
 
I agree this was a stupid thing to do if it was an original, untouched, matching rifle but it's probably a m/m shooter example. I still wouldn't do it myself but I did find it interesting.
 
Coyote Ugly said:
What a moron, just keep grinding the sand and gravel into the action with every pull on the charging handle! Keep the barrel in the sand like you did before the water rinse!
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Thank you, I'm glad you pointed that out because that was driving me mental.

On another note, these "mud tests" are a bit silly. I understand that some firearms can function under extreme abuse but when you start dealing with vintage WW2 rifles..... come on. Not to mention that their sandy mud mix isn't necessarily the mud encountered on the eastern front..... maybe the K43 likes Russian mud better?
 
Ive wanted to own one since i was a teen.. very cool guns ! However hard the video is to watch, it does show a potential problem

Man, i could never do that

Has there ever been a true modern reproduction ? Ive alway thought it would be great to own 8mm n mag feed
 
And that's Ian McCollum in the background from Forgotten Weapons... One can only imagine the damage done by racking the action with crap in it.
 
Cool gun yes but ultimately it is just a gun, no need to put it on a pedestal. I am sure many were treated much worse when first issued and if it wasn't theirs they wouldn't do it without the owner's consent (actually recently there was a gun that they didn't own but the owner sent it to them for them to do the mud test). These tests have always been done objectively since they first started and it is interesting as it shows design flaws. The most interesting one was for the AK, at the beginning of the whole Ukraine fiasco the Russians jumped on it and edited the video so it looked like the Americans were groveling over how great it was over the AR design. Some Ukranian team ended up debunking the Russian video and it got some minor news coverage .
 
I, for one, am entertained to see how a historic firearm performs even though I would not care to do the same thing myself. The amount of work to detail clean it afterward would dissuade me more so than concern over possible damage.
 
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