Go to pistol calibers? Is everyone against 9mm?

I run 9mm. .40 is too snappy for me but I might just be a little bitch. 🤷‍♂️ do like .357 and .45LC tho

I run a .40 in my EDC and my wife carries my 9.

Alright. Potentially stupid question

Why has nobody made body armor out of steel targets? They're designed to deflect bullets, right? Put an anti spawl coating on it, put it in a plate carrier.

Steel is heavy, for starters

That's what I thought, lol

Fragmentation blowing in to your throat would be mt first negative about it an 2 heavy as fuck

A lot of your budget plate carrier setups are like that and have spall bags the plates and trauma pads go in before it goes in the carrier

Be a good idea for car or truck doors tho

You can find some good ceramic an hybrids for not much more than steel plus soft armor backer.

Yea I’m a welder. I have an old ford ranger 6 cylinder I was gonna make into an improvised armored technical

Thad be slick.

#killdozer

Dewit

@kansaskyle customardustcover.com

That’s uh, literally what AR500 is, and it’s terrible

I use ceramic lvl 4 plates in my primary gear and a steel/ceramic hybrid plate in my security gear

Lvl 3+

I currently have quad bend swimmers cut AR500 plates in my carrier that I unfortunately panic bought in a financial pinch when that shit in Virginia popped off back in January. Now I’m having to buy twice and I can’t due to this shutdown bullshit

Oof

Yeaaaaaah. Definitely not my brightest idea. So best option at the moment is to buy spall bags for the armor and hope I don’t have to use it before I can buy quality. It was one of those “cheap armor is better than no armor” moments. So I’m gonna probably place an order from hoplite or somewhere similar and just keep my current setup as a truck/car kit.

But hey, at least I’m not too proud to admit my fuck up 🤷‍♂️ at least I bought some form of body armor instead of buying all the toilet paper and shit like the rest of the idiots did

Yeah you will notice me not be mad sauce over here cause you know what’s up. Glad you’re getting squared away

Definitely working on it

I need platessssssss

I wouldn’t bother getting any bags/backers for the AR500, none of that shit is proven, or actually fixed the problems, just save up for better stuff

Anyone try put the RTS tactical IV plates? I bought some because of testing I saw on YT, seems like they held up

Hoplite or die tbh

I got my lvl 4 ceramic the other day and its almost like magic that it does what it does for that weight

😂😂

Idk anything about those plates @[CA] SoyBoi, but you should literally never trust YouTube armor reviews haha

Initially went off of their compliant claims, but my thing is they're not listed so still iffy lol

If they’re not listed they’re not compliant

And there is a difference between certified and compliant

You right

Just checked said their on the Compliant products list 🤔

I'm gonna look like some expensive Swiss cheese

Working on getting a lot of shit squared away. First picture is the most recent one of my rifle, since this was taken, 45 degree irons have been added and the cable has been taken off and swapped out for a regular end cap. Second was when I got it and all I did was swap out the polymer handguard for the drop in quad rail.

@[CA] SoyBoi did you check the actual NIJ list? 🤔

@Abe Clark I’ve heard nothing but good about them