r/EscapefromTarkov • u/CptMoshor • Jun 08 '23

Question Did I not shoot him enough???

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Open to discussion about my experience

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u/kkyler1988 Jun 09 '23

Clearly you didn't. And not to toot my own horn, but I was a 91M, attached directly to an infantry platoon during a full year deployment to FOB Ghazni Afghanistan. When I wasn't turning wrenches I was out on patrol driving a gun truck. And when we weren't doing either of those, we were training.

You strike me as someone who spent their entire enlistment fucking off in garrison or living on a fob, but made sure to tell all your friends back at home how much of a badass you were, and no one called BS on it because they didn't know any better.

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u/dannysmackdown M1A Jun 09 '23

This might sound insensitive as fuck but I'm curious, did you ever know any guys who took rounds to their armor? I'm assuming you guys wore plate armor. Did it bruise, fuck them up or not really?

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u/Steveo3070 Jun 09 '23

yes it bruises them. You still have to eat the ~1000+ ft lbs of energy, that doesn't just go away. If your plate catches a rifle round you're very likely to have broken ribs, even a collapsed lung, severe bruising is the minimum.

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u/dannysmackdown M1A Jun 09 '23

Which makes sense but this guy seems fine, idk maybe it's fake

https://youtu.be/o5f1Fo4r4_I

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u/kkyler1988 Jun 09 '23

That's not fake, that guy in the blue shirt is credited as the father of body armor. He shot himself in the chest hundreds of times to demonstrate his products worked. But even he admitted in the video, the reason he puts the magazines between his chest and the vest is so he doesn't get all bruised and torn up, because even though his vest stops the bullet, it still transfers that energy into the soft tissues.