Mercury Tipped Bullet - Do you mean a bullet filled with mercury fulminate like hinkley shot reagan with? The bullets hinkley used were actually called devastators. Encasing mercury on the tip of a bullet is a procedure that shouldn’t be attempted without protective gear. Mercury is a toxic metal and reacts in peculiar ways that might catch. Filling the tip of a bullet with some mercury fulminate crystals would create an explosive bullet (though not nearly as powerful as books and movies might make it out to be). Mercury goes into solution with a number of metals at room temperature, lead being one of them along with silver, tin, copper, zinc, aluminum, and a host of other metals. This is the reason. The idea was, to put mercury into a bullet, then seal the tip with a drop of molten lead. Supposedly, when the bullet hit flesh and decelerated, the mercury would keep going. The problem in designing a mercury filled bullet is to fill the hollowed cavity of the bullet with mecury without pockets as the mercury hardens almost immediately. Mercury tipped rounds have a channel drilled in them that is filled with mercury, then capped. When the bullet hits a target, the round literally explodes as the mercury is. This is the reason. The idea was, to put mercury into a bullet, then seal the tip with a drop of molten lead. Supposedly, when the bullet hit flesh and decelerated, the mercury would keep going. The problem in designing a mercury filled bullet is to fill the hollowed cavity of the bullet with mecury without pockets as the mercury hardens almost immediately. Mercury tipped rounds have a channel drilled in them that is filled with mercury, then capped. When the bullet hits a target, the round literally explodes as the mercury is.
Do you mean a bullet filled with mercury fulminate like hinkley shot reagan with? The bullets hinkley used were actually called devastators. Encasing mercury on the tip of a bullet is a procedure that shouldn’t be attempted without protective gear. Mercury is a toxic metal and reacts in peculiar ways that might catch. Filling the tip of a bullet with some mercury fulminate crystals would create an explosive bullet (though not nearly as powerful as books and movies might make it out to be). Mercury goes into solution with a number of metals at room temperature, lead being one of them along with silver, tin, copper, zinc, aluminum, and a host of other metals. This is the reason. The idea was, to put mercury into a bullet, then seal the tip with a drop of molten lead. Supposedly, when the bullet hit flesh and decelerated, the mercury would keep going. The problem in designing a mercury filled bullet is to fill the hollowed cavity of the bullet with mecury without pockets as the mercury hardens almost immediately. Mercury tipped rounds have a channel drilled in them that is filled with mercury, then capped. When the bullet hits a target, the round literally explodes as the mercury is.