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Homemade Body Armor?
- Thread starter Hayata
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Duck tape books and ceramic tile .. is the best inexpensive way. Put tile tile between 2 books and tape it up . Use the tape to make straps to ware it..done
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I can smell disaster in this crappy video. So, I won’t ruin my evening watching it.
seen enough of these videos to realize how easy it is to stop a pistol or 5.56. .308 is the real test most of the time.
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Think I'll pass on Dollar Store body armor.
Lol me too , but the way I described is actually effective if you had to improvise. I hope I never live in a world where I have to fabricate body armor out of tape and books .
When the S has HTF and you finally realize
the value of body armor for home defense or traveling by motor vehicle in ambush-prone areas,
You WON'T BE ABLE TO buy any factory made armor.
If commerce even still exists, all the stores will be sold out,
and I'll bet all delivery services will have ceased. Forget that welcome visit from tge Amazon Prime cargo van bringing you your order from Gall's Police Supply.
I say knowing how to improvise some D-I-Y armor is far better than going without any.
I've experimented with old circular saw / table saw blades placed in front of a stack of old newspapers and magazines, and the results were encouraging. Handgun bullets were soundly defeated, and .223 and 7.62 x39 rounds fragmented on the steel blade and the fragments only penetrated about 2 inches deep into the paper.
I think if I had put a 1" thick layer of pea gravel or small aquarium rocks after an inch of the paper, and made a final back layer of heavy duty webbing Material such as used on those 4 inch wide ratcheting tiedowns straps that big 18 wheeler flatbed truckers use...
I think (guess) this would stop rifle bullets for at least several hits before the vest loses its own integrity and starts falling apart.
And it would be wearable. Heavy and clumsy, yes, and three times thicker than proper factory-made rifle plate armor, but it'd still be wearable in an emergency.
the value of body armor for home defense or traveling by motor vehicle in ambush-prone areas,
You WON'T BE ABLE TO buy any factory made armor.
If commerce even still exists, all the stores will be sold out,
and I'll bet all delivery services will have ceased. Forget that welcome visit from tge Amazon Prime cargo van bringing you your order from Gall's Police Supply.
I say knowing how to improvise some D-I-Y armor is far better than going without any.
I've experimented with old circular saw / table saw blades placed in front of a stack of old newspapers and magazines, and the results were encouraging. Handgun bullets were soundly defeated, and .223 and 7.62 x39 rounds fragmented on the steel blade and the fragments only penetrated about 2 inches deep into the paper.
I think if I had put a 1" thick layer of pea gravel or small aquarium rocks after an inch of the paper, and made a final back layer of heavy duty webbing Material such as used on those 4 inch wide ratcheting tiedowns straps that big 18 wheeler flatbed truckers use...
I think (guess) this would stop rifle bullets for at least several hits before the vest loses its own integrity and starts falling apart.
And it would be wearable. Heavy and clumsy, yes, and three times thicker than proper factory-made rifle plate armor, but it'd still be wearable in an emergency.
Upgraded components that will go into my next experiment:
I'm not waring a saw blade . Try ceramic tile between 2 books. The ceramic tile will stop rifle rounds
