G36 900 Rounds Full Auto Fire Until Failure Test

This video was originally posted on HKPRO.com: http://www.hkpro.com/forum/hk-video-v...

This is one of HK’s G36 Test videos showing Robert Hirt firing a standard production G36 Rifle. NOTE!!! This was not a MG36 with a much heavier barrel! You will see nine 100 round Beta C drums fired in 2 minutes and 42 seconds (@372 RPM) with no failures. The handguard becomes too hot to hold around 500 rounds. He has to shield his eyes from the heat at 700 rounds and around 775 rounds the handguard catches fire. The front of end of the rifle is in flames from the beginning of the 8th drum to the last round of the 9th drum. The gun fires all 900 rounds without a stoppage or parts failure even though the hand guard is in flames at the end. Even more impressive is once the rifle has cooled down, Robert Hirt is able to fire another 30 rounds out the same rifle!

Translation provided by HKpro member Lenkers:
0:00 - 0:05 Hirt: "G36 No. 205 fire to destruction."
0:09 - 0:09 Backround: "Slow down Robert, everybody wants to attend."
0:10 - 0:25 Discussion on how to hold the rifle.
0:32 "Open fire, or?!"
0:33 "Attention!" (brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr commences)
0:40 - 0:50 Backround: "The ejection is flawless" (Note the guy in the backround, totally exited about the trajectory of the empty shells)
1:29 "The fourth one? Yes"
1:45 "Be careful, the gas block is getting red."
2:00 "600, yes? Yes!"
2:13 "Now its getting hot. 700? Yes!"
2:33 "We've done it, now it burns."
2:35 "I owe you a beer (?)"
2:37 Hirt: "The bolt hold open doesn't work anymore."
2:41 Hirt: "Let's shoot some more?" (Literally: Shall we throw out some more?)
2:44 "Better take care!"
2:55 "Throw it away, stop it!"
2:59 Hirt: "Do you have one more?"
3:03 -3:08 "How many? 800! But be careful!"
3:08 Hirt: "One more!"
3:17 "Throw it away, now! Throw it away, NOW!"
3:24 "Well done!"
3:27 "Lick my ass"
3:29 Hirt: "205 after 900 rounds sustained fire one magazine 30 rounds. Bolt hold open works, wicked! It works! G36 205 after 900 rounds one magazine 30 rounds runs without complaints."
3:53 Hirt: "GEIL!"

Noteworthy: Hirt uses an antiquated term for the bolt hold open. He uses Kammerfang instead of the more modern Verschlussfang.