Hm. Don't really want my old stuff deleted, but...

The Final Frontier.  These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise... It's five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before.

Yes.  That's right.  41 years ago today, Star Trek first aired on NBC.  Regardless of the split infinitive and the fact that the show only lasted 3 years, rather than the 5 the mission was supposed to take, it became quite arguably the most popular franchise in TV and movie history, with (thus far) 5 live-action TV shows, an animated show, 10 movies (with an 11th on the way), and countless fans who are nerdy enough to come to one of the dozens of Star Trek conventions every year.

Found online, this is a self-proclaimed "One-shot kill" device.  Uh huh.  Well, that right there puts me on guard.  Here's the entire article.

First this only works for the larger calibers(sorry 9mm and below).

Buy a set of molds for the caliber you use making sure its the heavy flat point type. A good source of bullet material is wheelweights.

Cast as instructed, then get a 1/4 in drill bit and tape to the maximum stop depth. {about 3/4 of the way in).

Now comes the hard part. Fill the cavity with mercury almost to the top af the bullet nose. Then, using epoxy, seal the cavity, and wait 24 to 48 hours for it to dry. Reload in your case and fire away.

NOTHING lives though one of these hitting them as the mercury "explodes" inside them, and mercury is poisonous.

Uh huh....  Well, for one thing, the author signed his name as "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx."  I think.  I may have the wrong number of x's there.  No matter.  Either way, that's a red flag of the highest degree.  I'm not trusting my personal defense to a guy (girl?  No, most certainly a guy) who won't even put his name on what he's writing.  Well, that and all the absolutely horrific legal issues that go along with FILLING A BULLET WITH MERCURY.

Anyway.  I have no words for the incredible stupidity involved here.  For one thing, if you're drilling a 1/4 inch hole into a bullet that is at most .45 or .50 inches in diameter, that gives you relatively thin walls on the sides of that projectile.  Walls that, I may be mistaken, might not stand up to the forces involved in being fired through a rifled barrel at 900 fps (give or take).

Moving beyond that problem, we reach the idea of the bullet "exploding" inside the target.  Uh huh.  That assumes you can hit the target with the bullet you goobered up, thereby horrifically affecting the aerodynamics and flight characteristics.  Suspending our disbelief in that case, we come to the thought "why would it explode inside someone?  Hollowpoints don't explode.  Softpoints don't explode.  Why would these be any different?

I could write more about these errors, but it's been covered by people more intelligent than myself.  I wish to focus on the crown jewel of stupidity right now.  That the mercury would poison and instantly kill the person being shot.  Well, yes, mercury is a poison.  So is lead, incidentally.  But, like most poisons, it is fairly slow acting, with death only occurring after large doses has been absorbed into the body.  The miniscule amount present in a hollowed-out bullet would probably make someone have to go to the hospital (though no more than, you know, being shot would do), but I can't imagine that, if shot, my first thought would be "oh no, I hope that bullet didn't have mercury in it..."

Anyway.  Carry on with your lives.  I'm thinking about writing something about the supposed ammunition shortage in the near future, and Erin is coming up with a list of 101 topics for me to write about, so with any luck I'll be writing more in the near future.