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Was having a wee dram with mate and his father inlaw (Darwin) last night.
Darwin told us about a trick they used to do with a wet (saturated) blanket, hang it over a wire and at 50 yards a 303 round would not go through it.Is there any truth in it or has anyone with a 303 ever tried it
heard the same with a silk scarf....Im the proud owner of a silk scarf with a bullet hole in it.....
Were you wearing aforesaid scarf at the time?Quote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
nope,or wouldnt be here to tell tale,it was draped over fence wire.
was it a 303 round and was the scarf on a single wire like a cloths lineQuote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
It will sail through it,probably will do the same out to 1600 meters or so.
There was a myth doing the rounds over here tgat chainsaw protective trousers as they are made from Kevlar would stop bullets.
Folded five times they will stop a .22 but that's it.
...missed the bit in the story where the blanket belonged to a unicorn that was working in politics. :D
I’d have been worried if you HAD been wearing a silk scarf, I always regarded you as too manly for that sort of carry on!:yaeh am not durnk:Quote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
A winter-weight bedsheet hung from one edge will stop an air rifle pellet at a few metres. As long as the trailing edge is free, the sheet moves with the slug a few inches decelerating the slug which then drops to the floor. I can imagine a heavy old wool blanket being soaked and hanging with its lower edge free might possibly do the same with a .303.
i cannot wait to hear the report from the aspiring academic who decides to try this "theory" out in real life.I once had a barney with a know all who reckoned a 12 shotgun was so low powered its charge wouldnt go through a galvanised rubbish can @25yds.
He had a funny smell about his person after i did the experiment in front on him and he saw how much of the rear of the fucker had vanished.
a so called tale is one thing -reality is often the exact opposite.
think it was .303 but definately loosely draped over single top wire of fence....it was a long time ago since I was dumb enough to believe story like that....Quote:
Originally Posted by Harryg
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Originally Posted by ishoot10s
Not a chance at all, 174 grains doing 2440 FPS take a bit to stop and a wet blanket, like a wet German tunic, doesnt stop them....:-)
There is a discredited British Army myth regarding wet blankets stopping 9mm submachine gun ammo.
I never heard of it stopping a 303!!!
About to say the same as Percy Jones. Lots of axis soldiers wished it was true. But its not.
This thread reminds me of this story: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43410816
yeah a 303 will go through a wet tahr at 100 m pretty easily.
I'm questioning why the veracity of the title's gone on to two pages!
wet blankets strung around camp WOULD in some way help against sniping...visual barrier and if not stop projectile it might have deflected it a little... hard to shoot something you cant see.
Would the degree of your worry level would depend upon WHERE he was wearing the silk scarf?Quote:
Originally Posted by Finnwolf
Maybe one too many drams were consumed. More to do with concealment I would say.:thumbsup:
Unless ofcourse the shot was fired from miles away.
Worked with a South African years ago who claimed some houses in rougher neighbourhoods had two sets of curtains with a gap between them. Claims they would stop an AK 7.62x39 round as the first curtain would make it tumble and the second set would catch it, but it wouldn’t work on R1 (South African FAL) 308 rounds they’d sail straight through. So if it’s a myth there are flavours of it around the world.
The Blanket Folded over nine times perhaps
now i have to admit i have never shot an animal with a 303, but have with a 308 which is in the same league.
i shot a bloody woolly very wet goat at 200m plus. the projectile went all the way thru with massive damage, now a few things to take into account with this theory.
1: blanket hanging so no real full mass behind it though wet wool is bloody heavy !
2: its bullshit
my old no4mk1* .303 I regard as being equivalent to the almighty kiwi bowler Ewen Chatfield AKA the Nae Nae express medium pace but can be deceptive .HOWEVER-Ive never been able to test my theory out cause ive never found any bastard willing to act as wicketkeeper. even regulation 10mm military steel falling targets ended up with holes in @200m -much to the suprise of my regular cadre SGT who was my spotter for the task like wise my company commander .I cannot tell al ie however I"accidentally slipped two .303 A P rounds into my mag of military surplus ammo.me mates thought it a hoot .the other round that packs a real punch on my old girl is the 180gn round soft nose -ive sent those through trees .not recommended for hares or possums either -instant compost.
@kotuku Funny; I was just about to say I wonder if the originator of the 2 wet blanket theory would be prepared to bend over behind the blankets ant put the theory to test..... ;)
all fine and dandy old bean but the academic reports from hirsuite feminist academics of otago university would have the bloody pope reaching for a flagon of waikato as the altar wine at a mass in st peters!Quote:
Originally Posted by bumblefoot
...On the topic of bullets and blankets, Paul Harrel does an interesting experiment with a blanket covered mattress. The blankets are not wet but it does make good speculation that a vertically hung heavy wet blanket might have some effect in stopping projectiles of certain size and velocity.
It does work. Seriously.
But shit, those Kevlar blankets are scratchy to sleep under! :P
I briefly had a New Zealand Home Guard manual which mentioned this in the section about preparing buildings for defensive positions.
It did mention hanging wet blankets in the windows and covering the openings with chicken wire to keep grenades out.
Don't be a wet blanket
New Zealand Home Guard Manual 1941, "Page 195. Section C iii A wet blanket hung in front of a window so that it sways gently will stop a bullet."Quote:
Originally Posted by Beavis
Bugger me! :huh: I suspect that was copied, obviously without verifying, from one of the many UK manuals which were utilised in part to make up the NZ manual.
yup a wet blanket hung up and waving in a window -wow a portable fridge freezer -anyone gonna sit tight when its colder than eskimonells piss flaps -one move towrd than bloody flapping blanket and chances are your next residence is a 6'deep hole if youre recovered (a bloody lot werent!)
reminds me of a conversation with my younger brother recently .our late father a ww2 italian campaign veteran telling our late uncle how he drove past "endless fine strapping blond german blokes face down in roadside ditches"-cause of death Mk7 174gn .303 round!
wet blanket -not dissimilar texture wise to human flesh. well if one was really determined to verify the sage advice in such manuals i suppose if you engaged a butcher to homekill you could always yard the beast behind a wet blanket(sorry old chap nothing personal but your time has come all in the name of science.)and load great grandads longtom .303 and so forth.