380 ACP Phone Book penetration test

[msquared]

Not very scientific but interesting results.

S&W Bodyguard 380 shot into dry phone books at 1 foot.
Ammo:
Corbon (CB) Top Left
Hornady Critical Defense (CD) Top Right
Winchester Silver Tip (ST) Bottom Left
Winchester White Box (WB) Bottom Right

Results:
Only Corbon made it through the first phone book.
Silver Tip expanded the most, pentrated least.
Critical Defense, did not expand, the jacket is very ragged and it penetrated just a bit further than Silver Tip.
White Box out penetrated both ST and CD.

I think I will be sticking with Corbon. Critical defense was really not very impressive.
I still have a stack of phone books so I plan to do this again with 40S&W.

Now I will try to put the pics on here...
The phone book with 4 holes in it.

Another look.

First find, Silver Tip

Critical Defense not too much past that.

White Box just past those

And finally Corbon made it into the cover of the second book (its up by the elephants top left)

 

[msquared]

A look at all four in their original positions:
Corbon Top Left
Critical Defense Top Right
Silver Tip Bottom Left
White Box Bottom Right

 

[esrice]

Fun!

What's the other side look like?

 

[msquared]

other side of what?

 

[esrice]

other side of what?

At the time you only showed the entry holes. I wanted to see how they exited.

 

[jblomenberg16]

What does Tom Blackburn think about WWB?

 

[HandK]

Great post!! thanks for sharing it with us!!

 

[msquared]

What does Tom Blackburn think about WWB?

Hilarious! I could not have planned that any better...

 

[cosermann]

So, this means I could make adequate body armor against .380 acp JHPs using only phone books.

 

[paperboy]

I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of any of those.....

 

[esrice]

I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of any of those.....

Of course not, your name is paperboy.

 

[paperboy]

NOW THATS FUNNY!!!!!

 

[INyooper]

Interesting ...waiting for the .40 cal results. Do you have enough books to go through all the pistol calibers???

Reminds me of .....

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOTDn2A7hcY[/ame]

 

[Drail]

Good to know if you're ever attacked by a stack of phonebooks.

 

[muncie1]

There was an episode of Burn Notice where Michael Weston stuffs some phonebooks in the dorr panels of his car as protection against hangun fire. I was curious about that but never had the time to see if it was real. I do not think that I will use phone books as cheap body armor anytime soon!

 

[fire259]

There was an episode of Burn Notice where Michael Weston stuffs some phonebooks in the dorr panels of his car as protection against hangun fire. I was curious about that but never had the time to see if it was real. I do not think that I will use phone books as cheap body armor anytime soon!

I think Mythbusters did an episode where they "bulletproofed" a car with phonebooks.

 

[Woodrow]

I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of any of those.....

No if I received a phone book full of bullet holes, I wouldn't be happy either...

 

[E'villeGunner]

I remember seeing an ammo test of .380's and the conclusion was, that FMJ's was the way to go in a .380. They got best penetration over all the jacketed hollow points through various configurations of clothing.

 

[cklein6576]

burn notice did a whole car with them!

So, this means I could make adequate body armor against .380 acp JHPs using only phone books.

its why i filled my door panels with them! I mean if you cant trust USA who can you trust?

 

[msquared]

Interesting ...waiting for the .40 cal results. Do you have enough books to go through all the pistol calibers???

Reminds me of .....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOTDn2A7hcY

Phone books are not the limiting factor. Most of my pistols are 40. I have a 22, 44, 223 and 12GA, but other than the 44 I probably wont be testing the others. Who knows.

I mainly did this to see if the Critical Defense was anything spectacular. It has gotten a lot of hype since it came out and I was curious how it performed next to my old standby of Corbon.