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One of my hobbies is collecting old photos. I thought members would get a kick out of this one. The gun looks like a 5-inch 38/44 HD.

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"COURAGE, YES, BUT NOT TO LOOK - DETROIT: Arthur Greer, Plastic Technician, knows the new 'Doron' bullet-proof vest he wears will stop the bullet fired at him at close range, but the knowledge doesn't preclude operation of reflex action in his eyes. The vest, a development by the Paramount Rubber Co. of Detroit, of body armor used by the Army and Navy, is made of layers of fiber glass. It is guaranteed to stop all ammunition no heavier than the 38/44 S&W Special." 9/17/47

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Interesting photo! Guess he was glad to be able to hear the constant ringing in his ears afterward ;).
 
It's still gonna hurt; that energy has to dissipate somewhere!

I remember seeing a reporter doing a story on the police department's new bullet-proof vest. He was wearing a vest and as a demonstration, allowed a policeman to shoot him with a 22. After the shot, the reporter was rolling around on the floor in agony and you could hear all the cops laughing in the background!
 
This seems like a perfect time for this little tale.

In my little part of the local area there is a legend of a fella, legend that is ,in doing some of the most idiotic things you could think up.

In keeping (vaguely) with the subject of this thread, the "legend" while wearing a "bullet proof vest" begged,....then dared a friend, to shoot him with a .357 magnum.while at a club-house hangout of friends, (drunk, of course).

The friend however was a poor shot, or, the "legend" turned away at the wrong time, and ended up with a severed spine, relegated to a wheelchair for the rest of his days.

There were no charges filed, and as I recall, the friendship never wavered......Aahhh the good old days,as noted above,when you could become a "legend" so easy.
 
WHAT A WAY TO MAKE A LIVING

I used to say that A LOT! EVERYTIME I had to give a suppository/ enema/ manual disimpaction.
 
Couldn't you just wrap the vest around a fence post or something?

I have to think that picture is staged for the cameras, not the SOP.
 
I don't doubt that tests like this were done, but the target would have to have been the densest sort of fool, a candidate for the Darwin Award. By the way, I haven't seen the Darwin Award lists for 4 or 5 years.

Seems I remember reading about the guy who invented the "Second Chance" body armor traveling around the country allowing cops, etc. to shoot him wearing the vest. If so, he fits my earlier description.
 
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It's not staged, that's how developers/manufacturers of early body armour used to prove their product worked. You may recall Richard Davis, also of Michigan and founder of Second Chance body armor, became somewhat famous back in the '70s and '80s for doing the same thing:

Walking the Walk - YouTube
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I went to school and grew up with Richard Davis and my mother sent me a picture of Richard wearing his bullet proof vest turning a 44 magnum on himself and pulling the trigger and the picture was in the newspaper.
 
JSW said:
It is guaranteed to stop all ammunition no heavier than the 38/44 S&W Special." 9/17/47
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I wonder if that meant the metal piercing round? I hope that when they sent the company errand boy to the hardware store for that box of test 38/44 ammo, he bought the correct 158 grain load. :)
 
DWalt said:
By the way, I haven't seen the Darwin Award lists for 4 or 5 years.
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Perhaps the people who compiled it are no longer with us. I always thought that publicizing those stories was a good way to earn the furious enmity of the brighter relatives of the annual honorees. What a concept: Self-referential Metadarwin Awards.

I may be channeling the spirit of Rustin Cohle, but a self-organizing universe of multiple dimensions will always find a way to counteract the perceptions of those who would mock and disdain the actions of any of its constituent members. Electron, positron. Proton, anti-proton. Or something. I mean, like, who knows? Anybody got a Lone Star?

Strange. It feels like I have said that before. Or maybe will say it again. Am I having a flat-time experience? Or maybe, as Mr. Cohle acknowledged in a recent public utterance, I'm just insane.
 
DCWilson said:
... What a concept: Self-referential Metadarwin Awards.

I may be channeling the spirit of Rustin Cohle, but a self-organizing universe of multiple dimensions will always find a way to counteract the perceptions of those who would mock and disdain the actions of any of its constituent members. Electron, positron. Proton, anti-proton. ...
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What the hell did he say? :confused: :D:D
 
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