Well, I took the new Galil out to the range today. I bought the rifle yesterday at the Missoula Gun Show. Rifle is a Century Golani Galil copy. Workmanship looked very good, so despite have the Century name on it, I decided to buy. Mine is the 18 inch model, and it came with two steel mage - one refinished and one nasty one.
The bad news: I only brought the refinished mag with me to the range, and I am hoping this is a magazine problem.
The rifle would not fire more tha one round without a stoppage. Ammo was new WW 55gn FMJBT - i.e. M193 equivalent. A round would fire, but the empty was not thrown clear, resulting in a stovepipe or simialr stoppage every single round. I tried a variety of milsurp with the same result. If I loaded one in the chamber,m then revove the mag, rounds were ejected right and forward about 10 feet - so it's either a problem with the mad, or the mad well is cut wrong. I'll have to try a different mag to know for sure. After paying $925 I am not happy. You'd think they trest fire the rifle.
The good new:
The rifle is extremely accurate. I had no problem putting 10 rounds into 2 inches at 100 yards with iron sights. The trigger has lots of creep, and could really use help, but is pretty typical for a military trigger.
The sights are great, and in spite of the rear sight being on the top cover, I didn't notice any change in impactt after removing and replace the toip cover. Good thing, because several jams required field stripping to clear the action.
As the rifle sits right now, it is totally unacceptable. If the mag is at fault, I can live with that. I am rebuilding the other magazine and have ordered some NIB Israeli Orlites for further testing.
More to follow.
The bad news: I only brought the refinished mag with me to the range, and I am hoping this is a magazine problem.
The rifle would not fire more tha one round without a stoppage. Ammo was new WW 55gn FMJBT - i.e. M193 equivalent. A round would fire, but the empty was not thrown clear, resulting in a stovepipe or simialr stoppage every single round. I tried a variety of milsurp with the same result. If I loaded one in the chamber,m then revove the mag, rounds were ejected right and forward about 10 feet - so it's either a problem with the mad, or the mad well is cut wrong. I'll have to try a different mag to know for sure. After paying $925 I am not happy. You'd think they trest fire the rifle.
The good new:
The rifle is extremely accurate. I had no problem putting 10 rounds into 2 inches at 100 yards with iron sights. The trigger has lots of creep, and could really use help, but is pretty typical for a military trigger.
The sights are great, and in spite of the rear sight being on the top cover, I didn't notice any change in impactt after removing and replace the toip cover. Good thing, because several jams required field stripping to clear the action.
As the rifle sits right now, it is totally unacceptable. If the mag is at fault, I can live with that. I am rebuilding the other magazine and have ordered some NIB Israeli Orlites for further testing.
More to follow.
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