AR500 plates are definitely very suboptimal. They are heavy and the spalling generated from taking hits will end up killing you anyway. Get a decent set of lvl4 ceramics like RMA, Hesco, or Guardian - multi-curve for your front plate, and single for the back. They weigh a ton less and the spalling won't murder you.
I shoot steel plates a lot at my outdoor range, and the wood frames are spaceD a foot or more away from the plates but they are absolutely torn up from bullet and jacket fragments. I don't want that going through my arms and neck.
True but you couple it with a ballistic spall containment sleeve. By the time the coating, sleeve and your actual carrier fail at containment, what would a ceramic plate look like?
AR500 plates are definitely very suboptimal. They are heavy and the spalling generated from taking hits will end up killing you anyway. Get a decent set of lvl4 ceramics like RMA, Hesco, or Guardian - multi-curve for your front plate, and single for the back. They weigh a ton less and the spalling won't murder you.
I shoot steel plates a lot at my outdoor range, and the wood frames are spaceD a foot or more away from the plates but they are absolutely torn up from bullet and jacket fragments. I don't want that going through my arms and neck.
Valid point, but you can also get steel plates with coating that limits spalling as well as putting them in a spall sleeve jacket.
The coating doesn’t work as well as people pretend it does.
True but you couple it with a ballistic spall containment sleeve. By the time the coating, sleeve and your actual carrier fail at containment, what would a ceramic plate look like?