Tungsten
Ultimate Member
HDPE would be a lot lighter. I wouldn't trust it for rifle rounds but it should easily stop most of the pistol rounds which seem to be the most prevalent issue.
Depends on what they got shot with. A full metal jacket rifle round of reasonable caliber goes through a LOT of wood. 8" logs certainly won't stop much. Pistol rounds for the most part, that is about it.
Hmm, what are you going to do about windows????
Or a windowless house???
Hmm, what are you going to do about windows????
Or a windowless house???
I've got an old brick house with walls that are pretty thick and could likely stop anything short of .50 bmg, but the tall windows are a problem.
There's glass block windows in the basement. Anyone see any testing of those? They're thicker and heavier than normal glass panes, but I don't think they'd stop much of anything.
Brick won’t either. “Old brick home” likely means brick facade with strapping to wood slats over dimensional lumber
How about gabion planters filled with bags of gravel, in your front, back, and side gardens about waist high?
You don't need gravel, wet dirt is fine.
But that only protects you waist high.
Also, it gives the bad guys something to hide behind.
No, I mean OLD. Real brick walls. Built in 1915, according to the tax records.
If someone shot repeatedly in the same place with a rifle, that would bust a hole through eventually, but I think stray handgun rounds are a lot more likely, and they wouldn't do much more than chip it.