Hillbilly body armor test

One bullet hole in your body is infinitely worse than zero bullet holes.

As demonstrated, it can withstand more than one impact, but even if it could only take one hit, I think it's still pretty impressive for the price.
 
What you need to get is some of that spiderweb silk armor. They're trying to put spider DNA in goats so they milk them and silk comes out. They then plan to spin it and weave it like para aramid kevlar.
 
If we move away from thinking of this as "personal body armor," maybe I do see a use. When thinking about TEOTWAWKI and "bugging in," I've thought about hardening a few spots in my house. It's a 1947 frame house with really thick walls that predate sheetrock. The interior walls are really tough to cut into but obviously they won't stop a bullet. And the house has lots of windows. I've considered putting steel plates around a few windows, inside the walls. This would create a shooting position where you couldn't be taken out by rounds zipping through the wall.

Steel is heavy and difficult to work with inside a wood frame. But something like this tile idea... I could see making that work. It's not as perfect as fitted steel shutters like Rawles used in Patriots but far better than nothing....

Gregg
 
You'll want a way to hold the fragments together so they're good for more than one shot. Bed liner obviously works but it would get expensive quickly if you were trying to cover a large area.
 
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.
 
I'm gonna bring this one back as I am contemplating trying this myself, just picked up a plate carrier from a buddy who left the Corps last month. Andrew, a couple of questions for you:

First, where did you get the PEI V tiles?

Cost per 12"x12" tile?

Have you tested the Mk IV plates yet?
 
One thing the military looks at is multiple hits on a single location, although I don't think the standard for it is very high.
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There is no such thing for body armor. Same plate takes two hits. One COM the other offset.
 
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