A lot of blood work was done, and he became a sort of test subject for US air force medical researchers. Leo however surprised all his doctors by living when they expected him to die, and at that, vigorously at his love of motorcycles and police work. He retired early from the Bexar county precinct three but continued to work as a reserve deputy constable. After a motorbike crash that left him with serious injuries in , Leo was diagnosed with brain cancer. This prompted his total retirement from law enforcement in He passed away at the age of 63, on Thursday, May 2 nd , Although not actually in use at the time, exploding bullets were discovered over a century ago.
When their destructive nature came under review, however, the St. Petersburg declaration was instituted. This states that inflammable projectiles or explosives under 14 ounces should never be employed during wartime. Examples of the explosive rounds in existence at the time were the 7. These had a phosphorous and tetryl internal charge. The would-be assassin, a man named John Hinckley used Bingham Devastator rounds, slugs of which were extracted from the president and a policeman.
You will not come across these rounds today, seeing as their sale was restricted following the 81 incident. Explosive incendiaries inside small-caliber bullets tend to have inconsistent results. Rifle and pistol bullets have been designed that expand or mushroom on impact. Hunting rounds in particular have half jackets, exposing the soft nose so that the lead expands to minimize over-penetration.
During the Burmese campaign, the old lee Enfield. With the adoption of spitzer rounds which are pointed, the dum-dum bullets faded into oblivion. The term is however still used to refer to expanding bullets.
The most common handgun round with expanding properties is the JHPs or jacketed hollow points. This bullet has an axial hole within which is a tiny polymer cap, where theorists insist mercury can be added. Skip to content Contents hide. Amazon and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon. Can Deer Be Domesticated?
There were, for a short time, some fly-by-night outfits who made mercury-tipped bullets for pistol ammo. These loads were called "Mercor", "Thundershock", or Velet-blacks, and were made by Howard Angel who used to operate the Velet aka Velex company which was known for making exploder bullets with the typical primer style tip.
The Mercors were black tipped and were not made in any major quantity. I suppose the liquid mercury would have a hydraulic effect on impact that would "blow out" the hollow point rather quickly. When I was a kid, I was always working on something. I came up with exploding pellets that worked pretty well. Cut off the tips of a bunch of strike anywhere matches. Put them in a motar and pestle, add a couple of drops of water and mush them into a paste.
Carefully trowel the paste into the hollow back end of an airgun pellet and set them up in a window to dry for a couple of days. Load the pellet backwards and shoot. Crossman had some flat full wadcutter looking pellets that were perfect for this. They would pop pretty good.
I popped one in my fingers while trying to pack a pellet with the stuff dry impatient and didn't want to wait for the paste to dry. It hurt like hell and made my ears ring. Quoted: I suppose the liquid mercury would have a hydraulic effect on impact that would "blow out" the hollow point rather quickly. Quoted: Quoted: I suppose the liquid mercury would have a hydraulic effect on impact that would "blow out" the hollow point rather quickly.
The book is 40 years old and is repeating a trope that has no measurable basis in fact. Not much, but sounds pretty cool The primer wouldn't "explode like a grenade," but don't underestimate its force.
I performed a temperature experiment and posted it on Youtube go to Youtube and search for cookoff primer and cookoff powder. The primers were put on a cookie sheet and heated until they detonated; the primers dimpled the steel cookie sheet! And he is alive today. No, he owned devastators but did not use them that day.
There were no "detonations". It would make a hole. A very expensive hole. Given that it's more dense, a projectile of a given size would weigh more and hence penetrate deeper. Was going to mention this. Though it would be interesting to see something like a grn 45ACP Gold Dot with it's hollow point cavity filled. Still don't think it would be reliable, may not even be beneficial if the round were to fragment and penetrate less deeply.
At that point, might as well just use Glaser or Magsafe. I had one blast across my yard and cut my leg after I shot an empty shotgun shell with my pellet-gun. You need some real tin foil instead of aluminum foil. Copper foil might be even better. However, that death by heavy metal poisoning would take a long while to occur, depending on the amount of metal the body absorbed prior to the bullets removal.
No, because you need more Mercury than the fatal dose that can be delivered in a bullet. Adding the Mercury sure will make your victim uncomfortable until the body sheds the excess amount down to acceptable levels.
Mercury when ingested targets blood, kidneys, central nervous system, liver and the brain. Large doses of Mercury will lead to easily identifiable health symptoms Administration of a chelating agent can help reduce the effects on the body. Acute Mercury poisoning will lead to death, but generally that death will be due to an already existing kidney or liver damage. There is always the possibility that exposure will cause a failure of the central nervous system, which could lead to death.
In essence, that big new hole in the body from he gunshot wound will be far more fatal either from tissue damage or a secondary infection. Lead is already poisonous, the addition of mercury might be unnecessary if looking to increase the poisoning potential of a bullet.
Instead, I would consider using toxin from poison dart frogs in the bullets. This toxin is highly lethal to most creatures, including humans, and was used by aboriginal tribes in the rain forest. They coated darts with this poison likely where the frogs got their name from and used a blowgun to inject a person with it. You could employ a similar mechanism with your bullets, either coating them in poison or putting the poison into a specialised bullet meant for storing the liquid and releasing it upon impact.
If you really wanted to use mercury though, you could fill the bullet with that instead. As others have said mercury as a poison is just not practical. What might be possible is to use mercury embrittlement to damage vehicles. Now I'm not sure how plausible it is to e. If you dip you bullet in mercury, it will run off. Even if some adheres and it doesn-t - have you seen mercury? Even if some does miraculously make it into the victim's body, traces of metallic mercury are not going to cause a health issue.
Suggest you pick something genuinely dangerous, eg saxatoxin or one of the others used by the CIA etc. Yes, it is possible. It took a long time, but this officer died of mercury poisoning years after he was shot. Sign up to join this community.
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Active 2 years, 5 months ago. Viewed 14k times. And in case you're wondering: No, I'm not planning to assassinate somebody. Improve this question. Nathan Hopp Nathan Hopp 1, 2 2 gold badges 7 7 silver badges 21 21 bronze badges. Turns out though, that sodium and potassium bullets are awesome: youtube. Mercury is actually a slow killer. Have you ever heard the phrase, "mad as a hatter? But it takes regular exposure for a long time to do that. Fish are harvested with mercury in them - alive, not dead.
Mercury poisoning is a problem, but the environmental hype exceeds Mercury's abilities. Now, a hollow-tip like Zeiss suggests with a Curare core That would work. Show 9 more comments. Active Oldest Votes.
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