Is maille bullet-proof?
NO! No, No, No, No! Please don’t get yourself killed!!! Every recorded instance of maille worn into battle against comparatively modern weapons has left the wearers in significantly worse shape then they would have been in with no armor at all. Links get sprung open and dragged through the wound behind the bullet. Then you die. There are always stories in the mailling world about some new bullet-proof maille idea or “some guy who demonstrated his bullet-proof maille by shooting a 45 at it”. These stories are either a) made up fantasies, b) outright lies, or c) exaggerations based on badly performed tests using tiny patches of maille made from rings and patterns that would be wholly impractical to use in a real piece of armor, unless you can move about easily wearing 150 pounds (70Kg) of metal. Once again, maille is NOT BULLET PROOF!
