German WW1 Sniper's Mask
German WW1 Sniper's Mask
This armored mask featured very small eye slits, a cut away to get a cheek weld on a rifle, and a bend at the bottom to prevent spalling from striking it's wearer.
Big red arrows and circles pointing out the bit you're supposed to see through:
What's a check weld?
*I think it's supposed to be cheek. You put your cheek on the stock.
a check weld is when you take two checks and staple them together, giving the combined value...
Cheek, I think maybe they mean to get ones cheek on, 'weld to' ,the butt stock. I could be way off, as well....
So what does it do? Like old school safety glasses?
I asume that it's there to prevent them taking bullets to the noggin.. or rather to reduce the damage. Bet it would ring like a damn bell, but thats better than the alternative.
Yeah I was wondering what it’d feel like to get shot in the head wearing this thing. Skipping off the top, which is probably best case scenario, maybe not so bad. But a direct hit would be like…having a giant jab you really hard in the face with all their strength by a hot, dull stick. Would the indentation left (assuming the bullet doesn’t pierce) actually travel right through the head like the bullet would, but only as far as the limit of the metal/length of indentation on the helmet itself? Like, just make the bullet duller and the entrance wound be all? Or would it knock the person out?
So would you be able yo use this lying down?
