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Posted: 12/3/2017 9:22:13 PM EDT
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Oregon Trail makes silver alloy bullets.
I have given this some thought. Silver can overcome the werewolf's magic and the molecules of silver that damage the animal's flesh make permanent wounds - even if that silver is pushed by other elements the parts damaged by the silver still matter. I don't think the weapon needs to be pure silver to get the job done. |
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Posted: 12/3/2017 9:23:12 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/3/2017 9:27:13 PM EDT
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I haven't seen any werewolves recently, but it would be cool just to have some just to have them.
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Posted: 12/3/2017 9:28:51 PM EDT
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Silver is too hard and will not take rifling very well.
Several years ago there was some InnerWebZ dude making actual sterling silver bullets but they were outrageously priced. Something like $40 each! Better round would be a shotshell. Make shot by pouring a thin stream of molten silver into water high enough above so the stream separates. Load shot into shells. 
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Posted: 12/3/2017 9:28:54 PM EDT
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Yes, real silver for werewolves. 
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Posted: 12/3/2017 9:29:03 PM EDT
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I have seen pictures of a cased revolver from the 19th century which was said to contain silver bullets.
It would be very difficult to cast silver bullets with conventional lead bullet molds. You could electroplate bullets with silver. I bet that would work. |
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Posted: 12/3/2017 9:29:23 PM EDT
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I haven't seen any werewolves recently, but it would be cool just to have some just to have them. 
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Posted: 12/3/2017 9:31:00 PM EDT
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I asked this very question here awhile back. After a lot of research the answer is no. I was going to have a local jeweler make me some out of silver bars and then learned silver would be hard on the rifling.
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Posted: 12/3/2017 9:31:56 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/3/2017 9:32:29 PM EDT
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Silver is too hard and will not take rifling very well.  Der Jägerchor (Carl Maria von Weber - Der Freischütz) Freikugel is free bullet, or magic bullet. Six goes where you want them to go but the seventh is guided by the devil himself. |
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Posted: 12/3/2017 9:34:55 PM EDT
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Silver plating would be much more practical, I believe.
It's not hard to do at home, either. |
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Posted: 12/3/2017 9:39:52 PM EDT
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I'm thinking that, once the werewolf charges, preserving the rifling is gonna quickly take a back seat to not having my throat torn out by a werewolf.
Anyway, you don't have silver bullets to shoot them. You have them as a deterrent. |
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Posted: 12/3/2017 9:41:41 PM EDT
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Do they make any out of challenge coins?
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Posted: 12/3/2017 9:43:30 PM EDT
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Silver is too hard and will not take rifling very well. Several years ago there was some InnerWebZ dude making actual sterling silver bullets but they were outrageously priced. Something like $40 each! Better round would be a shotshell. Make shot by pouring a thin stream of molten silver into water high enough above so the stream separates. Load shot into shells. |
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Posted: 12/3/2017 9:43:44 PM EDT
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I asked this very question here awhile back. After a lot of research the answer is no. I was going to have a local jeweler make me some out of silver bars and then learned silver would be hard on the rifling. I thought about making some myself. But due to the natural shrinkage of silver as it hardens, I didn't know the math to make a mold. |
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Posted: 12/3/2017 9:44:10 PM EDT
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Silver plating would be much more practical, I believe. It's not hard to do at home, either. 
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Posted: 12/3/2017 9:45:39 PM EDT
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Lead core with a silver jacket. Cheaper and the werewolves won't know the difference. LOL werewolves.
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Posted: 12/3/2017 9:46:09 PM EDT
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From the experts.
Silver bullets are too light and don't engage barrel rifling properly, resulting in poor penetration and accuracy. MHI uses a modified Corbon Pow'r Balldesign: a hollowpoint round with a silver ball inside the cavity. As it's expensive, it's only available in .45 ACP and .308 Winchester. The MCB uses a different design that relies on powdered silver in a polymer matrix, available in 9mm Parabellum, 5.56mm NATO and 7.62mm NATO, but is available exclusively to the government.
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Posted: 12/3/2017 9:46:11 PM EDT
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The answe to the rifling issue is a silver core instead of lead.
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Posted: 12/3/2017 9:47:16 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/3/2017 9:48:17 PM EDT
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Silver is too hard and will not take rifling very well. |
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Posted: 12/3/2017 9:53:13 PM EDT
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Composite is better. Silver in the center, copper outside. Something like this image: http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/tmp_dropzone_m_855a_102-tfb.jpg Make them at home once the werewolf plague strikes? No... ...I like my idea more. 
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Posted: 12/3/2017 9:54:19 PM EDT
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Do they make any out of challenge coins? |
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Posted: 12/3/2017 9:57:02 PM EDT
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Just get some big deep HPs and fill them with silver.
Be careful though. Werewolves change back to human once killed, and then you got a dead naked dude to explain. |
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Posted: 12/3/2017 9:57:07 PM EDT
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I would prefer silver buckshot or slugs in 12 gauge
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Posted: 12/3/2017 9:57:32 PM EDT
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To kill a werewolf, the silver must be a blessed cross from a priest.
The cross must be melted down and the bullets cast by the own will use them. Any other bullets will not harm the werewolf. |
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Posted: 12/3/2017 9:58:55 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/3/2017 9:59:45 PM EDT
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A silver sword makes much more sense.
 "A Night to Remember" Launch Cinematic - The Witcher III: Wild Hunt |
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Posted: 12/3/2017 10:00:43 PM EDT
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To kill a werewolf, the silver must be a blessed cross from a priest. The cross must be melted down and the bullets cast by the own will use them. Any other bullets will not harm the werewolf. |
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Posted: 12/3/2017 10:04:21 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/3/2017 10:06:39 PM EDT
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I would prefer silver buckshot or slugs in 12 gauge Expensive, but I bet very effective. They were swaged into that shape, making dies would be expensive, but the whole project is expensive anyway. |
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Posted: 12/3/2017 10:07:49 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/3/2017 10:08:13 PM EDT
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I would prefer silver buckshot or slugs in 12 gauge Naturally, the werewolf, once shot, fell overboard so there was no evidence... |
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Posted: 12/3/2017 10:10:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Lone Ranger made his out of his Texas Ranger badge IIRC from the radio plays. |
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Posted: 12/3/2017 10:13:45 PM EDT
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Silver is fo' brokeass foos. Platnium, son!
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Posted: 12/3/2017 10:14:56 PM EDT
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You would probably still need a copper jacket. So maybe a hollow point with a silver core instead of a lead core. Though that would make for a really light bullet.
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Posted: 12/3/2017 10:16:43 PM EDT
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One of the gun mags MANY years ago got a couple of their guys to do a Lone Ranger article. They made the silver bullets and fired them to check accuracy and performance. The article was funny as the guys even tried dressing up as the ranger and Tonto, but in the end it turned out to be an exercise in futility. The bullets were expensive, the molds got jacked up, the bullets looked and sized like crap, the accuracy was lousy, and they couldn’t get a camp fire hot enough to even get the silver soft enough to pour.
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Posted: 12/3/2017 10:19:27 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/3/2017 10:19:47 PM EDT
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That's not true - in at least one instance a character beat off a werewolf with the silver head of his walking cane - might have been in the original Lon Cheney film. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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To kill a werewolf, the silver must be a blessed cross from a priest. The cross must be melted down and the bullets cast by the own will use them. Any other bullets will not harm the werewolf. 
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Posted: 12/3/2017 10:30:07 PM EDT
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I thought he and Tonto found a silver mine? |
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Posted: 12/3/2017 10:31:11 PM EDT
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I'm thinking that, once the werewolf charges, preserving the rifling is gonna quickly take a back seat to not having my throat torn out by a werewolf. Anyway, you don't have silver bullets to shoot them. You have them as a deterrent.  Failed To Load Title |
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Posted: 12/3/2017 10:34:18 PM EDT
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That's not true - in at least one instance a character beat off a werewolf with the silver head of his walking cane - might have been in the original Lon Cheney film. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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To kill a werewolf, the silver must be a blessed cross from a priest. The cross must be melted down and the bullets cast by the own will use them. Any other bullets will not harm the werewolf. |
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Posted: 12/3/2017 10:36:10 PM EDT
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I haven't seen any werewolves recently, but it would be cool just to have some just to have them. |
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Posted: 12/3/2017 10:37:55 PM EDT
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I would think it would need to be copper jacketed, in a partition style bullet. Lead core in the base, and a silver up to the the tip with copper in between to limit penetration. With the dissimilar weight materials in the base and top, it should make it tumble, and if the copper peels back quickly should provide a fragmenting effect with the copper, the silver will do its thang, and the lead base will punch through to organs and whatnot.
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Posted: 12/3/2017 10:42:42 PM EDT
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Coonan made a set with six silver .357 magnum rounds loaded with silver bullets and a wooden stake. I picked up a couple of them for shits and giggles. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I haven't seen any werewolves recently, but it would be cool just to have some just to have them. |
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Posted: 12/3/2017 10:43:47 PM EDT
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Silver is fo' brokeass foos. Platnium, son! |
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Posted: 12/3/2017 10:45:51 PM EDT
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Strangely enough, I have a good friend who wrote a novel with werewolves in it (among other things), and we researched this very shit for his writing.
It's more than what's been mentioned...too light, too hard, etc. Apparently they are also damn near impossible to actually cast RIGHT. As the silver cools, you get weird, inconsistent results. Gaps, hollows, etc. Essentially, you'd have to machine them to get any consistency in rounds. I agree with the composite theory...have a silver point sticking out of the front of a lead, copper-plated bullet. Win! ETA: We determined silver buckshot would be WAY easier and more effective. |
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Posted: 12/3/2017 10:48:33 PM EDT
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Apmex sorta has them.
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Posted: 12/3/2017 10:51:49 PM EDT
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Just get some big deep HPs and fill them with silver. Be careful though. Werewolves change back to human once killed, and then you got a dead naked dude to explain. |
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Posted: 12/3/2017 11:12:50 PM EDT
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Polygonal rifling would work better I think Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Silver is too hard and will not take rifling very well. 
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