Posted: 8/21/2008 12:15:31 AM EDT
| I was looking at molds for handgun bullets, and although I do that silver does not do anything particularly special to zombies… would a silver bullet actually be functional in a modern auto-loading pistol? I have a 9mm and 45acp, just something that I was pondering at 4:15 in the morning. |
Did you have a nightmare? |
| basically the shits and giggles theory, just cause its cool. at the same time i dont know where i would get silver for it.... or if it would even hold up.... its not as soft as lead is it harder than copper? could potentially do some damage if its too hard..... |
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A pure silver bullet is very problematic. Tin melts at 450F Lead melts around 600F Silver melts at 1762F It doesn't fill the mold well and it shrinks That makes casting impractical for most. You could machine the bullet but then you have a very hard bullet that won't take well to the rifling and it will be a little light; silver has a specific gravity of 10.46 lead is 11.35 You could machine an undersized bullet and paper patch it. |
that poses a signifigant problem........ the biggetst problem i see is it bieng hard enough to damage my rifleing....... and i agree machining it is the way to go. And althoug attempting to paper patch a .45acp in a 1911 sounds like fun.... i think ill pass.
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Interesting. Could we alloy it with something to make it a little softer and heavier? Would that reduce it's werewolf/zombie effectiveness? Plus, we need something that's going to expand effectively - silver doesn't cause harm in and of itself, it just stops them from regenerating the wound. How about powered silver in a shotgun round? Like the lockbreaking rounds that use iron filings - Old Painless reckoned they'd do plenty of damage to pretty much anything. Or a glaser-type round with silver shot inside? |
So is owning a .50 BMG, but that doesn't stop people from buying them. It is there right to own ammo to kill werewolf's. 
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thank you! for some people its a .50bmg, for others its silver bullets. Thinking of which..... would white gold be an option.... its "silver" in color... so it would be aesthetically pleasing of nothign else....
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its your money.  here is info on casting a silver bullet. |
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Mythbusters tested silver bullets in one episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw8tajwfppM |
Sounds like a major PITA. How about a shotgun round? |
Depends on how hard the metal is and what shape. If it's a very hard metal, significantly harder than lead or the various lead substitutes, chances are it won't expand at all and will act like a solid bullet. |
Probably not as it is fairly squishy as far as metals go, if your thinking werewolves and vampires as in Blade or orther flicks a regular hollowpoint filled with silver would probably do 
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This version of Lost wax is pretty easy/simple |
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Where I work the guy who owns the place is a jewler. He makes silver jewlery pretty easy. Melting silver is easy. He uses a welding torch. We melted a silver fork and an old id bracelet in under a minute. Keeping the mold hot is easy, too. He has a special furnace that keeps his molds hot up until he is ready to cast. He store them at 900 degrees and then casts the silver into whatever his mind can conceive. He did arrow heads the other day and a hatchetman after that. All really simple, but time consuming. |
depending on the threat