Thread: 303 vs wet blanket ?

Originally Posted by Beavis

I briefly had a New Zealand Home Guard manual which mentioned this in the section about preparing buildings for defensive positions. It did mention hanging wet blankets in the windows and covering the openings with chicken wire to keep grenades out.

New Zealand Home Guard Manual 1941, "Page 195. Section C iii A wet blanket hung in front of a window so that it sways gently will stop a bullet."

Bugger me! I suspect that was copied, obviously without verifying, from one of the many UK manuals which were utilised in part to make up the NZ manual.

yup a wet blanket hung up and waving in a window -wow a portable fridge freezer -anyone gonna sit tight when its colder than eskimonells piss flaps -one move towrd than bloody flapping blanket and chances are your next residence is a 6'deep hole if youre recovered (a bloody lot werent!)
reminds me of a conversation with my younger brother recently .our late father a ww2 italian campaign veteran telling our late uncle how he drove past "endless fine strapping blond german blokes face down in roadside ditches"-cause of death Mk7 174gn .303 round!
wet blanket -not dissimilar texture wise to human flesh. well if one was really determined to verify the sage advice in such manuals i suppose if you engaged a butcher to homekill you could always yard the beast behind a wet blanket(sorry old chap nothing personal but your time has come all in the name of science.)and load great grandads longtom .303 and so forth.