Hillbilly body armor test

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Sam Cade said:
No, that is a gunshot wound.

It was a plate carrier and the shooter missed the plate.
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You sure? That looks exactly like my IIIA vest (which does have a plate pocket)

(They also find the bullet IN the armor about the 1:00 mark)
 
Oh wow, my mistake then.

Thanks for the follow up video you added.

(You'd expect a GSW center mass to bleed more...)
 
Actually if you watch that video you linked through to the end that WAS body armor, and not JUST a plate carrier.

It was expired.

Before shooting the video they tested against the back side and it stopped all the rounds. (He talked about that right towards the end)

The front didn't stop the round.

Evidently it slowed it down and stripped the jacket (they found a part of the round in the vest, the rest went in to him).

EDIT: good thing his drunk cop friend (!!!!!) that shot him missed the center. Otherwise that round would have nailed him in the heart.
 
My wife is going to hate you, but I know what I will be trying next time I'm off and she has to work.
 
"Mk II" test:





Cliff's notes: two tiles with cutting board and bed liner defeated by 7.62x39mm. Stops one round of .45 ACP and defeated by the second.
 
Maybe try the cutting board in the middle?

When shooting steel plates, my 50 BMG will penetrate 1.5" of mild steel (easily).

However, when I stack two 3/8" plates with a 0.5" gap, the first is penetrated and the second is only dented; despite there being HALF of the metal present. That little gap makes a big difference in penetration.
 
Interesting idea. I'd still need to have a cutting board on the back. In earlier testing it was apparent that fragments of bullet and tile can still come out the back, even if the round was mostly stopped.
 
chopinbloc said:
Interesting idea. I'd still need to have a cutting board on the back. In earlier testing it was apparent that fragments of bullet and tile can still come out the back, even if the round was mostly stopped.
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Well.. anything reasonably lightweight that could serve as both a spacer AND an anti-fragment layer would be good. I'm thinking something along the lines of floormat, mudflap, something rubbery. Cutting board might be prone to shattering under the amount of stress you're putting things under. :)

You'd want to bond it front and back to the tile that's sandwiching it, somehow, to keep it from separating.

If the tile is doing a good job of stripping the jacket off and starting the round deformation, a thin layer of backing sheet steel would probably stop the remaining lead.
 
Example of two layers of thin steel with a spacer stopping 3" magnum 12 gauge 00 buck at a range of 7 yards.

It was shot multiple times and no projectiles penetrated.

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With the penetration of 00 buck, I was impressed. The computer case is VERY thin steel. But, the projectiles deformed on the outer layer of the computer case, passed effortlessly through the circuitboard, and were stopped by the motherboard backplate (also very thin sheet steel).

EDIT: Malfunctioning electronics at my house universally get the "PULL" treatment off the back deck. :)
 
Im telling ya use some mudflaps, those heavy duty types with the fiber in it, there flexible and the hurculiner should bond to it.
 
SundownRider, you wouldn't want to use floor tiles in any application intended to stop lots of rounds because each shot shatters them, degrading their ability to stop the next one.

Trent, the cutting board does crack but the bed liner does a fair job of holding stuff in place until the whole assembly is trashed.
 
Hillbilly body armor Mk IV:

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Three tiles, with a layer of bed liner and woven fiberglass fabric on the back side of each layer. I also made one with the same configuration but only two tiles, which I think will be good for multiple pistol hits or maybe one .223/5.56mm. I was very conservative with the bed liner.
 
This is an excellent way to affordably "armor" bedroom walls and even doors of family members.

You can pick up scrap ceremic tiles for very cheap ...

Lots of threads discuss stray bullets and gunfire in the home. This is an affordable way to give piece of mind to the stray bullets that might get fired in a home invasion, and/or a way to reinforce a 'panic room' for family members. Throw up 3 layers of cheap ceramic tile and then drywall over it on the inside walls of your kids rooms or master bedroom. Or cut the top edge off a hollow core door and fill it with 2 layers of tile.
 
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I installed four layers of an adhesive roofing material that come in big rolls to the interior of my Silverado door panels. My purpose for doing that was sound absorption for a high end sound system I installed. I forget the trade name, made by Grace industries, looks like Bear Bond that nascar uses, its like a rubberized sheet that is about a quarter inch thick, when it adheres it is nigh impossible to remove it. You buy it by the roll, about $100 per roll.

Its basically a roofing product for use in areas that gets a lot of snow and ice, so I am thinking of making door panel inserts using this stuff as well as tiles and herculiner, make my side door nearly resistant to any drive by assault, of course thats below the window.

Another use for this stuff is reinforcing your homes front door hinges and door lock area.
 
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Cliff's notes: Three layers of tile with fiberglass and thin layers of bed liner are defeated by 7.62x39mm and 5.56x45mm.
 
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