how's it going guys welcome back to the pilot patriot channel
in light of recent events we've been thinking about things that you can do to keep your
family safe and so in today's video we're going to be talking about backpack armor
now backpack armor is not a new thing but it is something that i've been thinking about a lot
lately especially given recent events i do have two small children and my son is getting ready
to start school here in the next couple months and so this is something that i thought a lot about it
is a sad thing that we have to even think about stuff like this but the fact is that there are
crazy people there are bad people in this world that want to do bad things and the best thing we
could do is make sure that we're doing everything we can to protect ourselves and our loved ones so
the panels we're going to be talking about today are from premier body armor they make all types of
body armor vest backpack armor and things like that the one we have here today is their large
backpack panel as you can see here this is 11 and a half by 16 and a half will fit
most of your medium to large size backpacks it is tested to 3a standard so that means
it's going to stop all pistol rounds up to 44 magnum it's also special threat rated for
12 gauge buckshot and slugs it's also going to be stab and slash resistant we are going to get
out here on the range and test this for you in just a minute but first let's talk a little bit
more about it now these types of panels can be used in any type of backpack whether it's your
travel backpack or something like that or like we're talking about today your child's school
backpack but a couple things to consider when you're choosing the armor for your backpack
you want to actually get in here and measure the internal dimensions this one here is about
12 inches by 17 so this 11 and a half by 16 and a half is going to fit in here perfectly
as you can see it fits in here nice and snug it'll also fit into your standard laptop pouch now this
particular backpack doesn't have a laptop pouch so i'm just going to slide it in here to the back i
may also go ahead and put some velcro on it just to keep it in place on the back of the backpack
so it's not getting in his way when he's getting books in and out and stuff like that now backpack
armor can do a couple different things for you of course if you're wearing your backpack normally
it will protect you from the rear of course you do want to talk to your children about how to
react to instances like this the typical response is run hide fight so if they are
running then the backpack on their back will give them protection from the rear now you could
also if you find yourself in a huddled position against a wall hiding or something like that you
can reverse that backpack and put it on you front ways like your average armor vest and it is going
to protect your front as well for smaller people you could even get down behind it and hunker
down kind of like a shield and use it that way just an extra level of protection just in case
of course guys the likelihood that this will ever be needed is very slim but if you follow this
channel for any amount of time at all you know that we like to be prepared i'd rather have it and
not need it then of course need it and not have it so that's why we're talking about this here today
i will put a link to this panel in the description below if you want to check it out premiere offers
some other school safety type items premiere also offers a pencil pouch something like you would
put into a binder that's going to give you even another layer of protection so assuming you had
the pencil pouch in your binder and then you had the backpack panel behind that that's going to
give you double the protection could possibly even start to defeat some rifle rounds once you start
stacking that 3a body armor so that's something to think about i'll put a link to that in the
description as well another product they offer along the same lines is going to be a bulletproof
laptop case this large panel by itself weighs about a pound and a half so it's not too much
extra weight in the bag but if you start stacking these things up it is going to add some weight
to your bag now we do have another one of these panels that we're going to be using to test they
come in several colors you can get them in black fde multi-cam black multi-cam several different
colors we do have an fde one that we're going to take out to the range and test for you guys
so let's get to it now i didn't want to shoot up my son's nice new backpack so i did go to the
dollar store i picked up a little cheap backpack and a few items that you might find in your
average school bag a notebook a hardcover book that's going to act as kind of our school book
and then a binder with some paper in it because while our panel is rated to stop all pistol
rounds and shotgun rounds i do want to see with a backpack full of the average school gear would it
stop a rifle round so we're going to fill this backpack with all our school stuff we're going
to put the panel in the back and we're going to shoot it for you guys and see just what it
can take we're gonna start out nice and easy with some 22 long rifle from our rough rider 22 pistol
let's check it out
all right guys you can see our shot went in right here
went through our notebook here
into our hardcover book
you can see it's starting to slow down here
into our notebook full of paper but it did not go through the binder
see if we can find that round here
yep there it is guys there's our 22 didn't even make it to our armor panel
uh so i don't know what that does for our test now for the integrity of actually
testing our armor i think i am going to take these materials out for now while
we're testing the smaller calibers and once we get up to the rifle i'll put these things back
in just to see if we can defeat that rifle round but like i said i am pretty confident
that our armor should stop everything else so for now we're going to leave this backpack
with just the armor in it so we can get a good test of that and we'll shoot that 22 one more time
it's pretty interesting to know that just the books themselves will stop the 22
but we are going to give this another try now that we've taken all that out of the bag
all right guys we hit roughly in the same spot there's our two shots there
on the backpack now let's check out our panel
there's where she went in right there
and no exit no deformation at all actually
all right let's step it up
all right guys we're gonna step it up to some nine millimeter with our smith and wesson m p shield
let's go check it out all right our bucket doesn't seem to be hurt so i don't think it went through
you can see we actually hit right there on the zipper
there's where the shot went in and i do feel the bulge there
where that round got caught but as you can see there's no pass-through
now we're going to try some 45 long colt fired from our taurus judge
all right guys there's where our shot went in right here
you can see that's where it entered the panel there and i can see
the lead down inside of there a little bit of a bulge on the back but no pass-through
all right guys now i think we're going to step it up to the ar-15 firing five five six
we are not going to put our books and stuff back in just yet we're gonna try the panel
by itself just to see and assuming that the rifle round does penetrate the armor we'll put
our books back in and see how that does all right guys now we're going to go at it with
some 556. some of you guys might recognize this 10.5 inch pistol from a previous video
whoa that did not look good for our panel
all right guys that destroyed our bucket so i think it's safe to say that it passed
through let's see if we can figure out where i shot our shot was right about here on the bag
let's go and check out our panel
there's the small hole where it went through there
and it looks like we did have pass-through it's a very small hole but it did pass through so
we're going to set this back up we're going to put our books back in and we'll see how it does then
all right we're going to try this again now that we have the books in the bag
but i did see some dust kick up from behind the bucket so i think that's a bad sign all right
guys there's our shot right there dead center of all the books that's exactly what i wanted to do
now let's see here there's our shot on the notebook it did pass all the way
through the notebook there's our shot on our hardcover book you can see the exit hole there
there's the shot into the binder and of course yes there is an exit hole there
there's our entry on the panel and exit on the panel now this is all that uh this is all the
materials that i have with me i would assume that school books would be a little thicker than this
so i don't know but i think we did the best we could with this test and it's safe to assume
this panel will stop everything that it says it will keep in mind it's not rifle rated it's
not even supposed to stop rifle rounds so it's doing everything it's supposed to do wait wait
wait just one second now i am not satisfied that we have given this thing a realistic chance of
beating those rifle rounds now i don't know about you guys but when i was in school we had much
heavier thicker books than this little flimsy thing so i don't think that was
an accurate representation so what i did was i've gone out and i got some nice big
thick books more reminiscent of what i had in school what i think kids are still going to be
having in school something thick and heavy a nice big math book history book something
like that so we're going to drop these two guys in and we're going to give it one more chance
and if this one doesn't work i promise i'm going to give up all right guys we're going to give
this thing one more chance now that we have some more realistically sized school books in there
let's check it out all right let's see what we got here
and our shot's right in here somewhere let's look through here
all right it's going to be one of these in that book
yep right in the center looks like it did go through the notebook as well
there's our entry and exit on our first thick book
entry and exit on our second thick book
entry and exit on our binder paper
i have entry right here on our panel and
yep exit hole all right guys all in all i would say this panel did its job just fine like we
mentioned at the beginning of the video this is only 3a rated so it's rated up to 44 magnum that's
going to cover pretty much all pistol rounds also rated for buckshot slugs and fn57 as well as being
stabbed and slash resistant it is not rated to stop rifle rounds and of course it didn't stop
the rifle round so no big surprise there just kind of wanted to test that for you guys but i am
very satisfied with the product i think premiere has done a great job of making a quality product
here they do offer this in several different sizes they even offer it custom for specific backpacks
if that's something that you have so i will leave a link to premiere body armor in the description
below make sure you guys check that out and don't forget guys if you want to help support
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