NavyVet1959
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mercury will dissolve lead, i know because i have bought several Ruger Blackhawks from ignorant people who thought their gun was "shot out", i have used mercury to clean heavily leaded revolver barrels, so it would be very impractical unless used within hours of inserting a drop of mercury.
personally i do not understand the paranoia over mercury, when handled safely and properly it is no more dangerous than water !! just my OPINION
on exploding bullets, i knew a fellow once several years ago (he moved to MN.) who drilled a hole in a large caliber bullet that would hold a .25 caliber rim fire "stud shooter" blank, the results were pretty devastating.
I was recently drilling out a .22LR rifle barrel for testing a .25 nail gun blank behind a 55gr 0.225" cast bullet and that same thing occurred to me. The .25 nail gun blank is the same diameter as a .22 mag. Seems that you could use a .22 or .25 nail gun blank in a 10mm or .45ACP that had been drilled out with the same drill bit and it might make for an interesting wound channel in ballistic gel. I'm thinking it would have decreased penetration, but it would be interesting to see what it would do. I don't do ballistic gel testing nor do I have a high speed camera to record it, so I'll have to pass on it.