Body armour?

[u/pooshlinger]

Im wondering if anyone has much knowledge or experience on body armour in Canada, specifically BC.
I do alot of shooting on crown land and in my area theres alot of other shooters in close proximity, so Im mainly just concerned about ricochet or stray rounds, or the odd crazy hillbilly when Im out in the forest.

Im leaning towards a soft vest as opposed to plates just for more coverage and being concealable if need be. A carrier would be cool and Ill end up buying one eventually but in a situation that I need to be wearing a vest, it screams “shoot me”.
However soft armour really only goes up to NIJ 3A. I like the idea of level 3 plates in a carrier just for the fact that 99% of shooters out there are shooting rifle rounds and shotguns, protection from just pistol rounds is kind of irrelevant in this situation.

On another note, Ive heard LOF defence is good, wondering what other options there are out there and where I can find them. Im aware that Canarmor is a heaping load of chinese shite.

Soft vest for peace of mind or blow the budget on a nice carrier and some plates?

[u/Spydude84]

I wear a chest rig when I shoot multigun, and when I'm at the casual range using it I feel overdressed, but at the multigun events I'm crazy underdressed. Everyone has plate carriers and ballistic helmets and tons of gear lol.

I wouldn't worry about wearing lvl4 plates in the bush, no one should care.

[u/pooshlinger → u/Spydude84]

Multigun, interesting. Ive actually never heard of that, super cool. Used to be very into airsoft back in the day with my dad, who still does it to an almost professional level lol, this looks like it would be fun. Maybe that would convince him of getting his PAL.

[u/Spydude84 → u/pooshlinger]

If you're in BC, DSSMatch are the guys who run it out here. Rifle, pistol, shotgun, though they are pretty flexible since the bans took everything. I shoot rimfire rifle and shotgun.