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Has anyone ever filled a hollow point bullet with Hg or it an old gangster's wive's tale? 
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Movie nonsense. Assassins don't do this. Neither do gangsters. This fake ‘bullet hack’ sprang from the film Day of the Jackal. And also Jaws.Has anyone ever filled a hollow point bullet with Hg or it an old gangster's wive's tale?
The fat kids who spend their day listening to Maroon 5 and jerking off to porn in Mom’s basement spread this rumor on Reddit. Those who try it cause brain damage to their already deficient gray matter as a result of inhaling vaporized mercury.
Mercury does not behave like liquid lead. The best way to make a hollow point more lethal is to aim better.
Two rounds in the center mass and one in the skull for good measure.Ballistics experts would have done this decades ago if it worked. It doesnt. We have all observed bullet makers who put plastic tips on some hollow points to assure proper expansion when the projectile penetrates clothing or thick hide and enters the pink squishy stuff. The plastic has nothing to do with the wound channel. Some big game hunting rounds are plastic tipped for the same reason. They are also more stable in flight. Less drag.
Those who have inquiring minds and arent very good at shot placement might consider filling their hollow points with human shit. If the defender fails to hit something vital, the perpetrator might die in a few days from sepsis. This technique is called poo poo pew pew.
When I was in North Africa, I made sure that each round I carried was dipped in bacon grease. Not to make the round more lethal though. It was to make sure Abdullahi or Fateem were unclean and could not be welcomed into Jannah by the embrace of nubile virgins. It also made the gun smoke smell wonderful.
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You could pour wax or plastic over it and it will solidify. It won’t explode on impact so not sure the purpose.
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It wouldn’t. In the movies they use wax to hold it in the hollow point cavity. The wax would melt instantly on detonation of the round and the mercury would come flying out of the muzzle as an aerosol. Probably not the best thing to be breathing.
Another similar myth is putting some sort of poison in the projectile. Rat poison or whatever.
As much as I dread liberal Wikipedia, this is pretty accurate. Mercury poisoning - Wikipedia. Back in the day when I was working around industrial plants that burned coal, mercury exposure was a hot topic. There’s mercury in most coals and it’s released when the coal is burned. The ash from the coal is full of mercury.
Mercury will permanently rot your brain if it finds a way into your body thru food, water, or inhalation.
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Has anyone ever filled a hollow point bullet with Hg or it an old gangster's wive's tale?
I figured someone here would have a better answer than "uhh, just use more bullets..."
From the few videos I watched on gootoob, the mercury appears to splatter into a mist when a solid object is hit. Many of the videos showed a "cloud" compared to a non-mercury bullet. Hg "boils" at 675°F, so I don't think it is vaporizing out of the hollow point before it reaches the target although it is plausible some is expanding out of the cavity as the bullet heats up.
Think an old-style thermometer. I didn't see any "high-speed" videos nor did I look. But it would appear mercury doesn't retain enough mass to "explode" out of the hollowpoint. It is about as the same mass as lead...I will caution that Hg is easily ingested into the lungs, and that NONE of the gootoobers had ANY kind of respirator or mask on considering the vaporization/minuscule splattering it was incurring.
It will also evaporate at room temp so it is important to clean up spills quickly and properly. Smaller droplets will evaporate more quickly but they will easily coalesce into bigger drops.A couple vids they even melted the Pb out of the bullet and filled it with Hg and sealed the cavity. Some suggested a heat check, most used wax.
Mixed with certain chemicals it can become an even more lethal poison. I thought this WIKI was interesting... It absorbed into her skin THROUGH her latex lab gloves!
I'm not planning on doing any experimenting with Hg. I do have a bottle to refill my carb synch stack and a couple old-time T-stats with ampules of it. I've owned cars with mercury switches for the trunk light.
If I were to experiment, I would just use W in a JHP bullet. It is more dense, heat-resistant and easier to work with.