SHOOTING Level IV PLATES: Safe Life Defense

so today on free field training we're going to taking a look at a piece of level four hard body armor for safe life defense safe life defense makes an entire line of body armor designed for people who have to buy their own gear whether those are police officers and security guards who aren't provided proper nearby their agency or company or private persons who want the additional protection that body armor provides in their daily lives we're going to be shooting the body armor today and you're also gonna be giving one of these plates away we'll tell you more about that in a minute stick around where are you going get online so the rifle plate that we're testing today is safe life defenses new level four in conjunction with rifle plate what this is is a ceramic and polyethylene composite single curved ten by twelve rifle plate that comes in at 18 millimeters and 5.8 pounds the fact that is an in conjunction with rifle plate means that it is designed to be used in front of a level-3 a body armor this allows this plate to meet the level four standard while being both thinner and lighter than stand-alone level four plates this is obvious use for the police and security industry where people are going to already be wearing soft body armor and for people who are going to have a plate pocket in the front of the vests that they're already using that will take a 10 by 12 plate this armor comes in it a little bit under 170 dollars and it's level 4 rating means that it will stop 30.6 armor piercing ammo we're going to be testing it today in our testing procedure is going to be to place this plate in front of a level 3a vest backed by to one inch pine boards we've already tested one of these level three of us in the past you can see that video up here where it stopped a variety of handgun threats and shotgun fronts remarkably well now we're gonna be starting off by shooting this place with 30 out 6 armor piercing ammo out of m1903 a3 rifle and then if that doesn't penetrate the plate we are going to start getting me we're back out on my brothers range we've got our 30.6 AP ammo and a 1903 a three year rifle here my good friend la Smith who has an astounding collection of firearms we're gonna start with NIJ standard or level 4 rifle plates and that is one round of 30 on 6 a beam [Music] or go take a look here's our single shot of 30.6 AP and we are going to cut this plate out here take a look at what the damage was here's a plate you can see the ceramic ware it destroyed the ceramic and then there's a polyethylene backer and the round didn't come through the back you can see pretty significant back face deformation from where the polyethylene caught it but for in conjunction with plate around a 30.6 AP from a pretty long barrel and it never even came through the back so that's definitely a win for the sync conjunction plate and there's no damage to the level 3a bus behind it we also can take a look at the back thanks deformation there's not really much of a dent but you can be assured that that type of back face deformation on the plate would probably hurt your chest pretty good right the one round 230 on 6 AP did pretty well we're going to see how many we can put into it before we start having failures so this is my buddy Brian and he is going to fire another round 30 out 680 on the same gun I can go ahead right okie-dokie right so here is where the second round hit and you can see the back face deformation the second time is pretty significant and it actually came through the plate this is an in conjunction with plate which means that the plate is supposed to slow the round down far enough where your level 3a armor underneath will stop it now if we look at the level 3a armor underneath we can see there is a little hole here some of you guys enter it's a little hole here on the front carrier of the armor but there's no hole through the back and in fact if we look at the board underneath there's only a very very minor dent in the board about the same as what we were getting from 45 acp and our first test which is the level 3a armor so it looks like even two rounds of thirty at six ap you'd still be alright alright so next we're going to try something that I think is a more prevalent threat in the United States this is 760 by 54r the reason I say it's more prevalent threat it's a whole lot more of this than there is thirty at six AP this ammunition was coming in 440 rounds for under a hundred bucks a couple years ago and the rifles to shoot them in these most into gods we're about seventy nine dollars you can just go get them at Cabela's so there's a whole lot of these out there way way more than there are people running around with thirty on six AP and this is something that won't necessarily be reliably stopped by level three armor something that you would want level four an armor to protect yourself against [Music] [Music] all right so here's our plate and that's where I hit it kind of whiz the edge of the plate there a little bit and here is our 3a armor and behind the 3a armor and a hole through the board now the plates already been shot a whole bunch and 30.6 AP with ceramic plates or having plates they start getting cracks in them and you can only get so many hits with it we're going to try again I'm gonna try not to wing the edge of the plate see if we can get one a little higher and get it to stop it we're going to try 762 by 54r again I'm going to try to not hit the edge of the plate this time [Music] all right so here's this 762 by 54r the last shot that we took it's interesting that the hole on this side is really really tiny and the hole on this side is absolutely enormous and here's our back face deformation I think what happened on our first shot is that it skidded out the bottom of the plate and this one is where it actually captured you can see the a massive amount of back face deformation in here I don't see the fragment but we take this plate apart we're going to see if we can try to recover it from inside see what's left of that mild steel core you see there's no damage to the area of the plate that it was from and here is the shot from our first hit with seven 62 by 54 our right we could skin it out you can see it kind of keyhole through and then we've got absolutely nothing on the other side the board is starting to crack a little bit but that was consistent with what we were getting when we were shooting 357 Magnum it's just a soft plate before all right so here is our plate we're going to try to disassemble it I figured out where our cores are at never had to take one of these ceramic plates a parcel for bust here here's what our ceramic looks like from inside this makes more sense when I win the edge of the plate the edge the plate has a little bit of padding to protect the ceramic on it that makes a little more sense I mostly just wing the edge of the ceramic with that round those are ceramic it is a mosaic design ceramic there's a bunch of individual ceramic tiles so as long as you don't get hit in the same area the same tile that's already been compromised you're still going to be able to have the ceramic protects the protection from the ceramic for level 4 there's a piece of jacket sleeve from 30 at 6 8 P there [Music] here's our polyethylene backer it's a lot less polyethylene backer than I anticipated little pieces of jacket and core oh here we go you can see embedded up here is the jacket from that second 30.6 8p round here's where got hit the first time Center on the plate you see the ceramic embedded into polyethylene backer come see over here that first Mosin they got around the 760 by 54r here's the area on the edge of the plate that's padding and then this is where the ceramic hits I did I winged the ceramic and then here's when it hit dead-on in the ceramic piece we had enough to enough behind it to stop and I think this one was it's skimming the edge of the plate that's unfortunate but I know that there was padding around the edge of it I would name that Farlow but of course that's not it's not an option you have when you're getting shot at you don't get to decide where you get hit so that's a pretty realistic test and a pretty realistic expectation going on there pieces jacket here's the back you see where that second round of 36 m2 AP came through they got caught by the vest went down here you can see where the first round hit where the 760 by 54r hit and then over here we're linked off the edge of the plate and the backer kind of just wrapped around around I still can't tell where it came out at all let me down here oh there we go [Music] pieces of around so I don't know if the whole round when it made it through or if that was blast behind it but there's pieces of that seven sixty by fifty four are still stuck in here stop there it is there's edge or slit through all right so I'd say that's a pretty good test for level four body armor the NIJ standard is one round to 30.6 ap it took two rounds 30 at six AP and then later managed to stop a round at seven sixty two by 54r being a ceramic plate and in conjunction with the first round of 30.6 AP it stopped without the help of the soft body armor you really can't ask a whole lot more than that you guys want one of these plates give us a like and a comment down below saying that you want the plate and don't forget to subscribe to the channel until next week guys stay safe and take care of each other no it came through and it went into the vest they go through that no didn't go through the vest that's a level three it's the same vest from last time they learned from last time it stops everything so in theory that plate pan carry all right this second oh yeah dude there's no there isn't even any damage to the back because look little debt right that's what you were given with a 45 and okay yeah yeah no that's one Captain Kirk we got into that we've been watching become king washing open seismic network so I know dude you can't challenge hard Thanks how much I realize in the next next generation right now if what it was and I was watching the original Star Trek and we were watching the next generation and she goes oh I want to see [ __ ] Spock so now I can't watch either up on my own time great now we have qco that we enjoy together and we don't even want to acceleration together I want you all to know that I'm leading this in flesh although all right hold on I get it that's all this is either too high or I'm Way too short I'm going with this - I M fine in summary - hi are hopefully fliers Vassili Zaitsev so I got a 22 and that twelve gates that you pour down to a 410 but we're not shooting now oh really horrible gosh the 22 hands opinon it's just bent I did that okay that's a line a lot of shooting with that gun all right back to works though this works for me my wife is here right it's working yeah oh that's going on the end don't worry about it I mean how many what do you want to put there as a Mosin - 10:30 I want to try to hit it up again with the 30 at 6:00 a figure later anything I want to try to hit it up there Ryan permit do you think you can hit it right idiot dead-on where I was aiming yeah can you hit it up here I'll try to yeah alright well you go to try hopefully I can hopefully I'm in frame shooting it with like 100 I'd like to thank all the patreon supporters and especially the shift supervisor level patreon supporters that we have listed here your contributions are what allows free field training to continue on and become better thank you

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Keywords: Police, training, security, body armor, armor, vest, bulletproof, test, sheriff

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Length: 15min 21sec (921 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 06 2017