Silver bullet - fact or fiction?

It's not the melting that's problematic, it's the cooling properties of silver. it shrinks more than lead when it cools, and ends up being sub-bore in a lead bullet mold.

Lost wax casting works well, but it's not that easy to do unless you do it by trade.
 
Some of you may have seen in gun magazines the famous Colt Detective Special Vampire Hunter's kit.

This was a Colt Custom Gun Shop item for a customer.
It consists of a highly engraved Detective Special with the Colt pony converted to a pony dancing on a coffin, and a "Midnight blue" finish.

The cartridges have silver bullets carved like Dracula's head.
The cleaning rod is wood, and doubles as a stake.

There is an engraved bottle of Holy water, and the entire affair is packaged in a American-fit fitted case, shaped like a small coffin.

As for all this shooting of werewolves foolishness, why bother? There's all the trouble with police reports, cleaning up all that blood, and the press lurking around looking for a story.

Trap the little beggar with your Large Economy Size "Have-A-Heart" live trap, haul him down to the local park or any college campus and release him......who'll notice???
 
I haven't cast bullets but all you need to melt silver is an oxy/acetylene torch
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Or a microwave oven. I've heard of people doing amateur jewelry casting with a household microwave with radiolucent ceramics.
 
I dunno about silver bullets & werewolves, but I'm pretty sure if I cast some gold bullets from my wife's jewelry, it would rid me of my wife. :eek:
 
You melt silver in a crucible. I have never heard of the microwave thing.

I haven't used it but there is a product called "Precious Metal Clay" It comes in clay, paste, sheet or in a syringe. When you fire it (10 min.in a small, CHEAP kiln designed for it) the binder burns away and leaves 99.9% pure silver in whatever shape you had made with 10% shrinkage. You could put it in your hollowpoints. Even un-fired the silver is still there.

There is also something called silverprint. It is pure ground silver in a paintable lacquer used in electronics for its conductivity. I've used it in electrforming. You could just paint the tips.
 
Golden bullets

Man that goes aways back- that article about the vampire slayer custom cased revolver. Was pretty neat. Was made custom for some person who wanted to remain anonymous! But, if you want precious metal bullets, I think that pure gold would be a better choice even though it would probably be difficult to cast like silver. I think I read something in muzzleblasts, maybe, about someone making gold roundballs for a frontloader, in a jam and out of lead, of course. Very soft heavy metal, would probably work well, ballistically. And would not lead the bore! Some Ritchy Rich should try that and report back. Or heck, why not depleted uranium. Someone who has enough offspring already could try that one for us.
 
Plate it

BTW- if you just want silver looking bullets and cases, you could get one of the simple silver plating kits from Texas Platers Supply. The silver electroplate kit is pretty inexpensive and you could have a set of sterling silver looking FMJ cartridges for a display. Just polish the bullet jacket and case bright shiny and clean with alcohol to remove any fingerprints or oil/dirt before you start the plating.
 
Well, since the casting temp of silver is so high and the silver shrinks, there is another way, get silver bars, then mill with either the poor man's milling machine (bastard file) or cut it down on a lath.

Personally, I think you could just take copper jacketed bullets and use silver stock, and electro-plate the bullets...use battery acid and a battery charger.

Could take some pure silver bars and use them for the electro plating...I don't believe the were wolves need to be hit with a solid silver bullet, so just the outside being coated should ruin it's day!

Finally you could take styrofoam, casting sand, make your bullets out of the styrofoam, put it in the casting sand, then pour your silver. It should burn out the styrofoam, and leave you with your bullets...Having never hunted a were wolf, could you let me know where/how much a hunting license would cost and the best hunting area for this "endangered" critter!
 
Well, looks like a just got an excuse to load up my VHS "Tales of the Gun" collection.

Somewhere, on one of those tapes, was an anecdote concerning a bishop who engaged a marksman to fire both lead and silver balls from a rifled barrel.

The lead out-performed the silver by an order of magnitude - something about silver not engaging the rifling, I believe.
 
Actually where werewolves are concerned, a 12 G with the silver 00 buck.
But remember not just any silver will do, it has to be pure silver from a "Blessed crusifix", and the Werewolve must be shot by a "loved one".
Hammer films 1958. Or you could ask the Lone Ranger.
 
If anyone's seen the movie Underworld, you could use silver nitrate. Worked pretty good in the movie and Kate Beckinsale looked good in leather. ;)
 
You melt silver in a crucible. I have never heard of the microwave thing.
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You have to have a radiolucent crucible in there for it to work. You just use the microwave instead of a torch. Supposedly it works, but I've never tried it myself.
 
Silver bullets are sales hype. You show me one werewolf that lived (or continued to be a threat) after being shot in the face from a plain jane lead 44 mag to the face, and I'll be a convert. I would use solids and no hollowpoints though.

:D
 
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