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Blogger testing out ballistics vest gets shot point blank with 38
« on: February 23, 2009, 12:16:35 PM »
Saw this at the firearm blog and thought it interesting enough to pass on.  They guy getting shot doesn't even flinch when shot from a distance of inches with a 38 Special.  Not a bad looking jacket either...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SJ33qMRKFY

Miguel Caballero, a Colombian, is a designer of ballistic vests for military and police and “bullet proof” fashionable clothing. Apparently he requires all new employees to be shot while wearing one of his ballistic vests! Here is a video showing blogger Erik R. Trinidad of The Global trip being shot point blank by a .38 Special revolver.

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2009/02/22/ballistic-vest-designer-shoots-employees-point-blank/
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Re: Blogger testing out ballistics vest gets shot point blank with 38
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2009, 12:47:32 PM »
They should have given him a pair of pants instead of a stupid T-shirt.  I have done some dumb things in my life, some would say jumping out of an airplane was one of them.  You would not catch me doing that unless it was dragon scale.  He has bigger balls than I do.
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Re: Blogger testing out ballistics vest gets shot point blank with 38
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2009, 03:43:42 PM »
Hard plates.  :D

I would imagine that would be a pain to wear...
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Re: Blogger testing out ballistics vest gets shot point blank with 38
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2009, 05:53:20 PM »
IIRC the founder for Second Chance used to shoot himself with a .44 mag to show how reliable his vests were.

I can't remember if I heard how many times, but it was more than just once.
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Re: Blogger testing out ballistics vest gets shot point blank with 38
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2009, 10:50:18 PM »
So what do you do on a warm evening and you are getting mugged, "excuse me sir, do you mind if I zip my fashionable 50lb plated jacket" 
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Re: Blogger testing out ballistics vest gets shot point blank with 38
« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2009, 06:09:04 PM »
I used to have the Second Chance video that he produced and was one of the reasons I chose that brand to wear.  But I remember in the video he shot himself with a .38 Special, .357 Magnum, 44. Magnum, Shotgun and more...but he always stuck a phone book in between the vest and his body to soften the blow.  He would still end up with a bruise the size of a silver dollar...makes me wonder if this video is legit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIhyETXW1u0

Or maybe some really low, low base stuff.
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Re: Blogger testing out ballistics vest gets shot point blank with 38
« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2009, 06:46:10 PM »
I've got that Second Chance video. He stands on the bow of a boat and has his father (I think) zap him a handful of times with an SKS loaded with steel-pin ammo. The bayonet is the only thing in between him and the muzzle. After a bunch of rounds, he jumps into the water. Turns out that particular vest was for the Coast Guard, and had to be a life preserver as well.
  In anther scene, he has a guy open a box of GI ball 7.62, load a mag, pop it into an M1A  (or M14), pop a few into the ground, and while Davis stands on one foot, with his hands clasped behind his back, the guy shoots him numerous times from about a foot away. While the rounds are going off, Davis is talking to the camera, balanced on that one foot.
  Hollywood has done well to make everyone think the impact of a round picks you up and tosses you through a plate glass window 10 feet away. 
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