Not sure If I have this in the correct forum? Forgive me.
I have a plastics supplier on my route.
Last week they had an interesting display on there front desk.
A peice of plastic roughly 8 inches by about 8 inches and almost 2 inches thick. It is a new product there touting as being bullet proof. This peice had 3 bullet holes in it. It had been shot with a 44 mag using hollow points. The bullets entered the plastic and lodged about an inch in, fully mushroomed.
I asked them at what range had it had been shot, what type of firearm was used and bullet weight used. They could not answer these questions, one of there customers tried it and only told them it was a 44mag.
I told them that was not much of a test. Using hollow points, they will start expanding at penetration and are designed to technically not go completely through. I pointed out the bullets did go in half way. What would happen if a full jacketed bullet hit it? A larger caliber or a smaller caliber at hi-speed? They could not answer that.
I believe a square full on hit will punch through it if not using hollow points, at an angle might be another story, would probably work as designed.
I asked them if I could give it a go, wound up with a peice 12 by 12 inches.
Will be straight on hits, don't need stray boolits bouncing around the range.
Thinking 10 yards max. Probably 5 yards with the 9mm.
30-06 with 150grn AP rounds.
45-70 350grn jacketed soft points and hard lead boolits, both arount 1600fps.
44 mag with a rifle, 250 grn lead fp. 1100 fps, not really hi power but not a hollow point.
9mm 115grn, standard fmj ammo
Should be interesting to see what happens. If I can get to this test today will post the results with pictures as to how it goes.