Body Armor Edge Test | Will it STOP a BULLET??? (Polyethylene Plates)

Dude, we agreed to this. I don't know. Yep, you gotta do it. The straws, gentlemen. Heath, that is, that is the short one. I thought we were kidding. He's gonna bolt! Get him! You agreed! I thought we were kidding! Mario, we got- Ow! Nope, that's it, I quit. I just, I resigned. I just resigned, I quit. You didn't hear anything, did you? Mm-mm. I got an idea. I think this has been a misunderstanding. Oh, thank goodness. Wait, what if- I hereby allow Warrior Post side to use me as a human bullet catcher, sign X on yes. Move it, move it. Yeah, we got a yes! Safety first, bud. What? Yes! No! Hold on, hold on. If he dies, who's gonna be the network producer? I could shoot Bob. That's a better option. Sooner, but you'll never have any fun anymore. Guys, today's video is sponsored by Aura. Aura is who I trust to guard my identity online. They provide a VPN, antivirus, password management, identity theft protection. I wish I had cheated and written it on my hand. Fraud monitoring. Aura also opted me out of 19 different data broker things, which were selling my information, which I thought sucked. Also, they found my information on the dark web, and that is no bueno with me either. Sign up at Aura.com slash WPS. You get a two-week free trial, and you can start getting online protection like this guy today. Now, let's do fun video things. Here we go. What's happening, my friends? I am John Lovell, Warrior Post Society, and today we're seeing how much of an armor plate that you would wear in like a plate gear, how much of this action will stop a bullet? What happens if you get shot on the one-inch mark over here? Is that going to stop it, or is it going to kind of fold around and hurt? Precious Bob here. We are going to find out today. Now, caveat emptor, when NIJ is testing plates, they say an inch or in is subject to the testing and certification and stuff. So, if it's over on here, that's not something that's playing in. Now, our contenders, which we'll be taking Bob on today, is a Gucci US arms rifle. This is the Gucci-est gun I own. This is really cool, and so we're having fun with this today. I just zeroed it in. It was my first time shooting it. We're also rocking and rolling with my favorite plates. They're the Deridiums. The PAs weigh like 2.7 pounds. These are heavier, about a pound more. But they're the GT2's special threat plates, and so these guys right here, what I love is, though they're a poly plate, they'll last for 15 years, and you're usually not seeing that. You'll see five years out of them. So, 15 years, and they'll stop M855. That's the green tip, and M855A1, and, of course, things like 7.62 and shotgun, and it'll stop all kinds of stuff. So, as we get ready, courage, Bob. I will not shoot you. I'm a good shot. I'm hitching the plate. I need you to be brave, son. All right, guys, eyes and ears. I'm at 15 meters shooting 55 grain 5.56, and I'm going to hit the 2-inch mark first. All right, let's see how we did. I love when it's smoking after. Look at that, punched in there. There's the actual cross, so I guessed a little bit wrong. But it looks like windage is okay. We have some cavitation over here, but nothing got through. Right here, look in there. Nothing got through, and, Bob, so we got some cavitation, but nothing got through. All right, now we're going to do the 1-inch. All right. So, there was the hole here. I am about a quarter of an inch to the right was entry. This is a tear. That was the hit part. And we definitely have cavitation. This is where it's just breaking like the paint and stuff. But you see on Bob here, there is no pass through. He's going to have a bruise, but he has no cut. I'm going to come over here and hit this third tick mark down right there, and I'm going to give it another go right at the inch. That was good. Bob's hurt. Bob's hurt real bad. This was inside this. This poked through here, and then you can see where it came out here, and then it made a superficial kind of thing here. There's the fragment. It, like, diverted. It pushed here, and then if you'll come over here, see when it cavitated here, it kind of pushed this in and worked its way out at an angle back this way. So it kept it from going straight in and through where it should have come through here, but instead it grabbed it, and as the material all bunched up to cavitate, it pushed out at an angle this way, causing some damage here. So this is not something that's going to kill you, but this is something that you're going to be like, I got shot. You get a Purple Heart for this junk. That's the ideal thing. You get the Purple Heart, but you don't die. Just for grins, let's push it into here at the half-inch mark. Right on the edge. This is my entry right here. All right, so this looks like it entered here, and it exited here. So here we did, unlike the last one, which kind of kicked it out away from the body and grazed it at an angle out, it bunched the protective elements when it cavitated and then passed along the side, and we actually did get shot through and through right there. All right, so let's break down our results, guys. Here you go, Bob. Earmuffs. I don't want them to hear this. Very first shot we took at 2 inches. It caught the round. It had some cavitation. However, there was no pass-through. Then we did one at 1 inch, and then we did another at 1 inch, slightly inside the 1-inch mark to see how that did. We had some pass-through on the right side. We did not have pass-through on the left side. The pass-through here kind of redirected it away from the body as the material bunched and gathered and kind of pushed it out at an angle, so we had some superficial damage. When I got closer to the quarter inch to half an inch right here, we did have an actual pass-through, and it went in and out of the body. Based on these results, I'd like to return to the general compositions of body armor. You can have steel. You can have ceramic. You can have poly, or you can do some kind of hybrid that takes two of these elements and put them together. No matter which one of these compositions you choose, though, you don't get to have your cake and eat it, too, as everything kind of, it's sliding scales of here's some advantages, here's some disadvantages. All things being said, I greatly prefer poly plates like this over something like steel and ceramic, whereas steel will provide max protection. I'm like, nothing's getting through there. On steel, it would provide better protection closer to the edges. Ceramic plates might do a little bit better on the edges as well, but as soon as you have that initial shattering of the ceramic structure, that plate denigrates pretty darn quick. Now, poly is my favorite plates because you can get something extremely strong, but it is more lightweight than the other alternatives, and man, as somebody who has had to huff around deserts and do lots of CQB and body armor, it is far, far better to be as light as humanly possible. But a tick against poly plates is when you get closer to the edges because the nature of how poly plates stop a bullet is it kind of bunches up and gathers that material and it allows some type of cavitation, whereas steel's just kind of like, You shall not pass! Yeah, Wizard Gandalf, nothing will pass, but you're gonna have to carry double the load, and that really sucks. You're probably gonna be a heat cat. The enemy doesn't even have to shoot you. Your body arm will defeat you. Hater! So when I think of a hit over on these sides, especially toward the edge where poly would push it out at an angle, and I'd probably be okay, and if it did get passed through, it's gonna kind of clip me in a non-life-threatening way, hopefully. What if it clipped up here at the top? Now it's going to cavitate, it'll push out, and now I'm gonna catch that up here, but what if it was just an inch higher and it shot me in the throat too? It's kind of like the what-if game, and some folks that have too much of a defensive mindset, it's kind of like, well, I should put armor here, and then here, and then here, and then here, and you're like a knight's armor walking through, and yeah, you better be a roll at just a tank of armor because you're so slow and pathetically easy to shoot. There's always the trade-off, and so this is, I'm gonna protect just the most important, and I accept that, man, if somebody clips me right on the edge, that's probably gonna get some pass through, and that sucks, so don't be a target. Do good tactics. Now I reminded this to you in the very beginning of the video, NIJ testing, it's inside the plate of 2 inches, and under no circumstances a 1-inch hit going to be used for NIJ testing for any of the composition of plates, so none of the manufacturers are lining up to be like, yeah, I'll warranty if you're shot way over here at 3 quarters of an inch, so we were already started this at the very limitation of what a plate should do, but let's know our equipment, what they can and can't do, and how bullets react with it. In the words of the great and illustrious, wise G.I. Joe, knowing is half the battle, and so now we know stuff. Give me my earmuffs. Guys, thanks so much for tuning in for this video. 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