Thread: 303 vs wet blanket ?

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.....

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

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?

nope,or wouldnt be here to tell tale,it was draped over fence wire.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

heard the same with a silk scarf....Im the proud owner of a silk scarf with a bullet hole in it.....

was it a 303 round and was the scarf on a single wire like a cloths line

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.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

nope,or wouldnt be here to tell tale,it was draped over fence wire.

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!

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.

Originally Posted by Harryg

was it a 303 round and was the scarf on a single wire like a cloths line

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....

Originally Posted by ishoot10s

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.

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