Let's look at flechettes for a moment...
In the 'average' flechette round you have 19-20 flechettes
A) Half of them will be loaded with the fins reversed to increase density.
B) There's about twice as many of them as there are balls in a 00-buckshot round so you can imagine they individually weigh a bit less.
C) They are not made of lead, so again individually they weigh less than half of a 00 pellet.
There's a test (not scientific) of flechette rounds being shot against a level III vest with butcher paper background on
GeorgiaPacking.Org.
The condensed version is
A) .22 short from a pistol exhibited better penetration of a telephone book than did flechette rounds from a 12-guage.
B) If the flechette
does manage to hit the vest (strange things Do happen), it only penetrates up to the fins. Think you could still function after being stabbed with an ice pick that's 1.25 inches long?
C) The 'pattern' at more anything more than across the room distance is around 6-7 feet in diameter. They may be shaped like arrows, but they do not fly like arrows. The backwards loaded flechettes break up the pattern and it will never, ever, Ever become any smaller than what it expanded into.
