Sunday, August 28, 2011

Ruining some expensive soft body armor...oops :P

Although this happened a little while ago; I thought I would write about it and include pictures.  The background for the story starts with a "ballistics lab" for a local law enforcement agency I used to be employed with.  The local rep was here to show off (and peddle) some soft body armor from an undisclosed company.  His cocky attitude just rubbed me the wrong way; but what the hell...I'm on the range and having fun. I'm thinking he was really a nice guy and this was probably just the salesman's pitch, but the prankster part of my mind got the better of me.

So the rep shoots round after round of various ammunition into the said vest and trauma plate trying to get the roughly five agencies to order these vests.  Although interesting, the rep's cocky demeanor and attitude really started to annoy me more and more. How could I ruin his day? Well...I noticed on the table he had a Tokarev.  He brought it to show that the NIJ Level III vest could stop the feared "cop killer" round.  The ammunition he brought was Winchester branded PPU 7.62x25mm FMJ.  Having shot this round into old vests; I know it will penetrate the Level IIA vests we were issued.  Fortunately for me; I had a good stash of Czech surplus 7.62x25mm steel core ammo acquired by the case for about 2 cents per round.

Forgetting to mention that this was "armor piercing" ammunition; I handed a couple of stripper clips over to the rep and asked if his vest would stop the round.  A few rounds flew through the chronograph for the sake of scientific method and off to the vest.  Unlike with lead core FMJ and JHP, the vest did not bounce backwards and cave-in.  Instead, the protective garment didn't appear to flinch and held steadfast with just a small shudder.  I heard the rep say "That doesn't look good."


Upon closer inspection, the bullet had punched right through the soft armor and even out the back of the dummy.  Oops. Did I piss on this guy's campfire just a little too much?  The cockiness fell right out of him and he seemed a little discouraged; yet he wanted to try it again with a special trauma plate that had earlier withstood the impact of a 30 carbine cartridge and near point-blank without even passing through half of the layers in the trauma plate.  Another round slid into the chamber of the Norinco Tokarev and we were off again.  As you will see below, it made little difference and the round still tore through the softarmor and supporting mannequin.


To be fair, the vest stopped every single round thrown at it with the exception of the Czech surplus 7.62x25mm.  As a consequence; however, I'm not entirely sure anyone signed any contracts for soft body armor that day.

4 comments:

  1. Your complicated aspect therefore is undoubtedly tips on finding the best performing reconstruction stable for the task, there are a couple of issues you should take time to give some thought to in this article.4K YouTube To MP3
    Express VPN
    HD tune pro
    utorrent pro
    Adguard premium

    ReplyDelete
  2. The particular soups also contains various dishes rich in salt, just like bouillon ice and also the People from france red onion soup combin.EaseUS data recovery
    Xforce keygen
    Foxit reader
    clean master
    Microsoft office 2016 product key

    ReplyDelete
  3. My site also has the best contents like myself, You can visit my website every day as it gives feature contents.
    Windows 10 activator
    4k Video Downloader
    Windows 10 Product Keys
    Office 365 Product Keys

    ReplyDelete
  4. Amazing things here. I’m very happy to peer your
    article. Thanks so much and I’m looking forward to touch you.
    Will you please drop me a mail?
    IDM
    Easeus Data Recovery
    Windows 7 activator
    4k video downloader
    Microsoft office 365
    Windows 10 activator
    xforce keygen

    ReplyDelete