Sadly, I am in no position to fund testing, but my wife has a good feeling she can pick some winners when the track opens this spring.
And don't worry about the shooting, its just that myself and my buddies would have kept doing "takes" until one of us wacked it somewhere near the middle, and that would be the one we put in the video.
But my real point is, that other than for fun, there's no real point to these mythbuster tests. Especially when you are trying to disprove something.
We have plenty of documented evidence about pistols sometimes not getting through heavy winter clothes at close range. Sometimes. And being stopped by belt buckles, books in the pocket, etc. Its rare, but it DOES happen.
A .30 carbine bullet, out past 100yds in extreme cold when ammo is at its weakest, is, essentially the same as a pistol bullet at closer range, so I don't find it unreasonable that it could do what a pistol bullet does.
You can't really prove it didn't happen, all you can prove is that you (or I) couldn't make it happen. Still its fun to try things and see some things for yourself.
Did you see the mythbusters one where they tried to bust the " sniper shot through the scope myth" ?
They couldn't do it.
Carlos Hathcock did it, and its a verifiable fact.