Game Fair 2011: A super technological novelty for the hunting world and for anyone who loves living in nature: a light fabric, but more resistant than Kevlar and capable of protecting even from close-up shots. It will be exhibited from tomorrow at the fair in the Federcaccia stand.
Tarquinia (Viterbo) - With a super technological innovation conceived for the safety needs of the hunting world, the 21st edition of Game Fair opens tomorrow in Tarquinia, 'Fair Event of living nature'. It is an 'armored' fabric with extraordinary life-saving performance, much more resistant than Kevlar (which is 5 times stronger than steel) and has already been successfully tested, resulting extremely protective even from shot cartridges fired at close range. Ideal for hunters, it is actually useful for anyone who loves to live in nature safely.
With this special fabric called Dynafelt, some demonstrative clothing items (jacket, jacket, hat) were made that will be exhibited in the Federcaccia stand, the association of hunters that has always been at the forefront of safety campaigns.
Dynafelt is one of the most recent patents of the Lenzi Group, one of the most important in the textile district of Prato, leader in the sector of unconventional fabrics. It is a special felt obtained with a polyethylene techno-fiber. “Soft and light”, explains Roberto Fenzi, CEO of the Group, “it allows the creation of specific clothes capable of drastically reducing the effects of hunting accidents. It is a novelty destined to break the trail of blood and controversy, which has always bothered the hunting world, but gives security to all those who love to venture into the woods, whether they are trekkers or mushroom hunters ".
In Italy, the 22 dead and 74 injured in the 2010 hunting season are a terrible toll, also considering the smaller number of hunters, today just over 700 compared to about 2 million years ago. Having witnessed the shooting tests, the president of Federcaccia Gianluca Dall'Olio, deeply involved in the safety campaign, wanted Dynafelt both at Game Fair and at the latest edition of EXA, the annual international arms fair in Brescia, where it aroused unanimous interest ".
The fiber adds extreme lightness to a very high molecular weight. But the secret lies in the processing, in the method called 'needling' which progressively weaves the fibers to create an impassable jungle of material without resorting to chemical adhesives. The super coefficient of shear and tear resistance allows many different applications: explosion protection, for body armor, vehicle armor and even motorcycle clothing.
The effectiveness of the fabric is documented by hundreds of firing tests with various types of 12-gauge shotguns. In particular, an automatic Breda with cylindrical barrel of cm. 62,5, and a Benelli Special 80, barrel of cm. 65 and three-star choke. There are also two types of cartridges: RC Cartridge Camouflage with 8 lead shots, and Fiocchi Steel Shot with 5 steel shots.
As for the modalities, the Dynafelt samples (squares of 41 cm side 4 mm thick) were placed just 10 meters from the rifle, on a 'Roma-like' plasticine panel, the special material used to simulate the density of the human body. and measure the trauma effect. At 2 meters from the rifle, a chronograph also allowed to validate only shots that had speeds of at least 330 meters per second (about 1000 feet per second), ie cartridges in full efficiency.
Even in these conditions, deliberately to the limit, the results were exceptional. For each shot, none of the cartridge's approximately 350-400 lead shots cleared the obstacle. Only a couple of steel 5s made it. The deformation of the plasticine also did not go beyond 5-6 mm, on a normally accepted maximum of 40.
Dynafelt, adds Fenzi, certainly cannot stop rifle bullets or bullet ammunition, but it can greatly reduce the casualties of normal broken ammunition shotguns, which is the vast majority of accidents. Padded with this super felt, jackets and hats are as comfortable and comfortable as traditional coats and headdresses.
However, they have one more weapon: they can save lives.
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