Would you let someone shoot at you to prove a point?
This guy is crazy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=3ZzoB6xBWOI&vq=hd720
This guy is crazy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=3ZzoB6xBWOI&vq=hd720
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mg357
Absent Comrade
Some people have absolutely no common sense at all.
Alpo
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Link didn't go anywhere at 3:15, when I tried the first time, and still doesn't at 7:25.
Can anyone else see what he's linking to?
Can anyone else see what he's linking to?
It should work now. Not sure why or how it changed.
GatorFarmer
Member
The shooter forgot to put his safety glasses in place.
Anyway, the guy that developed and popularized Second Chance body armor used to shoot himself (or be shot) wearing it all the time to prove that it worked. Sometimes he'd stand on one leg and shoot himself in the gut with a .44 mag to prove that the impact wouldn't know someone over. He took to putting some gun mags or a phone book under the vest to cut down on bruises I think, but no harm ever came to him.
Effective sales demo, wish I had the money for some armored glass panels. Though to be fair, spaced out hits from 7.62x39mm - even at point blank range - would be one of the easier rifle threats to stop.
Now if he has some glass that works against the new(ish) 5.56mm black tip ammo, that'd be something to see.
Anyway, the guy that developed and popularized Second Chance body armor used to shoot himself (or be shot) wearing it all the time to prove that it worked. Sometimes he'd stand on one leg and shoot himself in the gut with a .44 mag to prove that the impact wouldn't know someone over. He took to putting some gun mags or a phone book under the vest to cut down on bruises I think, but no harm ever came to him.
Effective sales demo, wish I had the money for some armored glass panels. Though to be fair, spaced out hits from 7.62x39mm - even at point blank range - would be one of the easier rifle threats to stop.
Now if he has some glass that works against the new(ish) 5.56mm black tip ammo, that'd be something to see.
Like Gatorfarmer said, that video will sell his product. If you were in the market for bulletproof glass, would you buy his, or some other guy's who SAYS it works?? He really does stand behind his product. Personally, I agree with the last guy's comment.
Alpo
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This isn't a new thing. Like has been said, Richard Davis, with Second Chance, used to shoot himself all the time with a 357.
I've seen several videos on the history channel, showing the same thing. Different bullet-proof glass makers being shot at behind their product. Makes great sense to me. If you are not willing to stand behind your glass and let me shoot at you, then I am not willing to buy your glass as protection. If YOU don't think it will stop a bullet, why should I?
May 17, 1926. Alvan "The Human Target" Jacobson, getting shot behind bullet proof glass. Notice the armor around his chest, "just in case".
I've seen several videos on the history channel, showing the same thing. Different bullet-proof glass makers being shot at behind their product. Makes great sense to me. If you are not willing to stand behind your glass and let me shoot at you, then I am not willing to buy your glass as protection. If YOU don't think it will stop a bullet, why should I?
May 17, 1926. Alvan "The Human Target" Jacobson, getting shot behind bullet proof glass. Notice the armor around his chest, "just in case".
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ohiobuckeye
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No doubt there were quite a few test runs before he became brave enough to sit behind the glass...
Also, either he has a strange upper body profile or there is body armor under that shirt he's wearing with shirt tail out to make less noticeable. I suspect he has as much faith in the shooter as he does his glass products...If I recall correctly, most bullet resistant glass will not withstand more than one bullet impact in the same spot and the shooter spaces them widely across the glass. Either way, the guy has more nerve(or less brains.. than me.
Also, either he has a strange upper body profile or there is body armor under that shirt he's wearing with shirt tail out to make less noticeable. I suspect he has as much faith in the shooter as he does his glass products...If I recall correctly, most bullet resistant glass will not withstand more than one bullet impact in the same spot and the shooter spaces them widely across the glass. Either way, the guy has more nerve(or less brains.. than me.mac2
Member
Yeah, "Deadly Weapons" video (1986); the presenter also stood in front of a .308 IIRC with a level 3 vest.
Cooter Brown
Member
I can't believe he was wearing sandals in a work environment. Very dangerous.
Sandals in a factory! He really is crazy!
Sandals in a factory! He really is crazy!
This guy wants to be a Success!
I can't think of a better way to show off your product than to
entrust your life to it.
I am betting that his wife didn't know about this episode
Before he tried it. Less'n he's divorced,....TACC1
I can't think of a better way to show off your product than to
entrust your life to it.
I am betting that his wife didn't know about this episode
Before he tried it. Less'n he's divorced,....TACC1
Once upon a time I stood next to a target and let trusted friends shoot arrows at it, just to see what it was like.
At the time I really didn't care if I saw the next day or not....
I'd ride a '48 chopped Pan through Memphis traffic at 60 or so MPH and totally disregard red lights.
Nothing ever happened to me.
Go figure......
BTW - At 30 yards you can't see an arrow coming at you when shot from a compound bow of fair poundage, while a bolt from a crossbow *looks* like you could catch it in flight.
At the time I really didn't care if I saw the next day or not....
I'd ride a '48 chopped Pan through Memphis traffic at 60 or so MPH and totally disregard red lights.
Nothing ever happened to me.
Go figure......
BTW - At 30 yards you can't see an arrow coming at you when shot from a compound bow of fair poundage, while a bolt from a crossbow *looks* like you could catch it in flight.
Frank237
Absent Comrade
Knew an idiot kid in High School who was THE resident shotgun/hunting Expert...or so he thought.
He got into a protracted argument with another kid over shot size for small game hunting. One claimed that #4 shot would allow longer effective ranges on squirrels, rabbits etc. The other opined that at 50 or 60 yds shot size didn't matter as the velocity was now so low.
After weeks of this...the one idiot lowered his trousers at 80 yds or so....and the other idiot shot AT him with a Ithica super single 30" 12 gauge with a full choke and Rem highbrass #4's.
Thankfully idiot #1 didn't drop his trousers all that much and his jewels were shielded.
Apparently #4 shot , even at 80 yds...DOES have the power to penetrate an idiots posterior. BOTH were in all sorts of trouble as ANY gunshot wounds are investigated by the cops, etc.
FN in MT
He got into a protracted argument with another kid over shot size for small game hunting. One claimed that #4 shot would allow longer effective ranges on squirrels, rabbits etc. The other opined that at 50 or 60 yds shot size didn't matter as the velocity was now so low.
After weeks of this...the one idiot lowered his trousers at 80 yds or so....and the other idiot shot AT him with a Ithica super single 30" 12 gauge with a full choke and Rem highbrass #4's.
Thankfully idiot #1 didn't drop his trousers all that much and his jewels were shielded.
Apparently #4 shot , even at 80 yds...DOES have the power to penetrate an idiots posterior. BOTH were in all sorts of trouble as ANY gunshot wounds are investigated by the cops, etc.
FN in MT
grub348
Member
In the early 1980's I was a laid-off carpenter who went to work for my wife's uncle who owned a FULL-SERVICE gas station. Any body remember them ? Due to the economy at that time Shell Oil was installing bullet proof glass at their stations. The glass installer gave me a piece of about 18 inches square for "ballistic testing". I took it home and shot it six times with a .44 mag usng a medium velocity load with hard-cast lead bullets. All six penetrated the glass and kept on going into my dirt backstop. I took the glass to work the next day. I asked the glass tech what he would do iof approached by a miscreant armed with a handgun. He looked at the size of the holes in his "bullet-proof" glass and simply stated "DUCK". Pretty good advice !!!!!!
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