Stupid people with stupid gun ideas...

[theGinsue]

The one thing was told in the ROK about flak vests is that they're intended to protect the guy BEHIND the guy actually wearing the vest - from shrapnel, not bullets. I still believe this concept.

You're a bored redmeck & want to see how effective a BP vest is? How about not risking anyones neck, hang it up at least 25 yeards away from something that isn't alive & then shoot it. Dumbass rednecks. Just one of the reasons I had to get out of Missouri - dumbass rednecks are more plentiful than ticks on a hound dog.

[WETWRKS]

The vest was 10 years old...my understanding is they have an expiration date and that they *can* fail if they are old. I don't remember what they are good for...something like 4 or 7 years...certainly it is less than 10.

[brutal]

I gotta imagine it was a lvl I/II vest, and they used a rifle or something which naturally punched right through.

Or it was I/II and he pulled out his Dirty Harry.

Dumb and Dumberer either way.

[Irving]

Remember the chuckleheads over in Golden (nephew and uncle) that would put on some type of vest and stab each other to show their friends? One day the vest didn't work and one of them died. I remember laughing about it at work and it turned out they were neighbors of a lady I worked with and she was all hurt about it. Haha.

[brutal]

The vest was 10 years old...my understanding is they have an expiration date and that they *can* fail if they are old. I don't remember what they are good for...something like 4 or 7 years...certainly it is less than 10.

I believe it's a general 8 years for Kevlar. However, that's very dependent upon UV and moisture exposure and use.

We've got the new rigid level IIIa stuff that has a thousand year half life.

[bryjcom]

Flak jackets don't stop bullets... End of story.

[WETWRKS]

I believe it's a general 8 years for Kevlar. However, that's very dependent upon UV and moisture exposure and use.

We've got the new rigid level IIIa stuff that has a thousand year half life.

I would bet that it was purchased as surplus at that.

[buffalobo]

Frikkin morons giving rednecks a bad name.

My redneck family has a saying.

"The price of your education is the cost of your mistakes"

And it is not always counted in money.

sent from my electronic ball and chain

[Dave]

Flak jackets don't stop bullets... End of story.

From what I was told in the Army, they aren't very good at stopping flak either.

[brutal]

From what I was told in the Army, they aren't very good at stopping flak either.

In the 80's, we always had to don our flak jackets for armed perimeter checks on the comm site and whenever an alert was called out for any RAF action, threat, or suspected activities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction

It's more of a why bother jacket.