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Post by Browning35 on Aug 11, 2016 22:40:23 GMT
Does anyone know of some lower cost lightweight rifle plates or IIIA soft body armor panels that will fit that carrier? I realize that ' Lighter Weight' and ' Lower Cost' are at odds with each other, but it doesn't hurt to ask. There's this this thing called a "truck", often found near military installations, and the damnedest things often fall off of it.  Unfortunately this truck you speak of never passes by my house. |
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Post by Browning35 on Aug 11, 2016 22:44:40 GMT
Misterdark has the TAG backers linked above. I sold my AR 500 plates and bought UHWMPE plates instead. They are 2.8lbs I think and float. They stop every rifle round .308 and down EXCEPT M855. Sucks but is what it is. AR500 can fail on M193. They do require backers though as its ICW. www.lapolicegear.com/co-pb-ml011-rifleplate.html$150 for the set...similar plates are $500 each. Yeah. I remember when you got those I wanted to swing them, but I wasn't going to be able to do it even on the closeout sale. Looked around for them after we got back to normal, but nowhere to be found. |
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Post by as556 on Sept 8, 2016 12:09:12 GMT
I think you could buy an LE surplus IIIA and modify it into panels to fit your carrier.
I got a perfect Kevlar IIIA for $100 shipped on ebay.
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Post by Browning35 on Sept 8, 2016 14:30:16 GMT
I think you could buy an LE surplus IIIA and modify it into panels to fit your carrier. I got a perfect Kevlar IIIA for $100 shipped on ebay. Is it still in date or is it out of date? Wouldn't matter much really as it would probably be better than I have now. |
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Post by as556 on Sept 8, 2016 14:35:14 GMT
It's out of date but it's 100% woven aramid and good forever basically.
NIJ actually did a study and found 10 year old aramid was slightly more effective.
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Post by Browning35 on Sept 8, 2016 14:51:30 GMT
It's out of date but it's 100% woven aramid and good forever basically. NIJ actually did a study and found 10 year old aramid was slightly more effective. Yeah, I've seen a couple different study's that said the same exact thing. It'll still stop the vast majority of rds even being a bit out of date. All 3 vests that I have right now are each 20 years old though. That's why I doubled that front panel in the one I have by our bed, but I'm betting that it would be fine with just one panel ... But might as well double it. I've just kept putting it off because I do have some body armor and using that as a reason to procrastinate, it's not like I'm using it much. I'm just thinking that they'll go after the legality of selling it to civilians so I should probably get something that's a bit newer now. |
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Post by as556 on Sept 8, 2016 15:11:00 GMT
Have you thought about testing one of the vests you currently have?
Are they all 100% woven aramid? Aramid laminates break down much faster IIRC. If it is it should look like very tightly woven yellow fibers on the panel itself.
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Post by Browning35 on Sept 8, 2016 16:17:55 GMT
Have you thought about testing one of the vests you currently have? Are they all 100% woven aramid? Aramid laminates break down much faster IIRC. If it is it should look like very tightly woven yellow fibers on the panel itself. Yeah, I've thought about it and after I get a newer vest I'll probably shoot the blue Level II Point Blank vest from this video. It's the most tore up vest I have, but it's better than having no vest to hand out. At the minimum I want at least 3 vests in the house to be able to pass out if the need arises though, so I didn't want to shoot it until I had the new one in hand. I'll likely keep the front panel of the blue Level II Point Blank vest where it is in (front of ballistic panel of the tan Second Chance vest) and shoot the back of the blue one to test it out. It would have to be a pretty fucked up situation where I'm handing out vests to be put on, but I'm kind of one of those plan and prepare for the worst and hope and work towards the best guys. |
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