Does it make me a nutjob...

[Ding]

you not losing it.the others are abnormal.we are the normals..

 

[bwells]

I saw last night on the History channel, a report and investigation into silver bullets. They decided silver is too hard to allow the rifling in the barrel to grip and spin the bullet thus it is no more accurate than a musket ball.

You could always try a shotgun slug with a sabot.

 

[Box13]

0the Lone Ranger used silver bullets so he would only wound whoever he shot.And he never said they were pure silver so Im guessing they were a silver alloy as pure silver is too hard to engrave riffling into.But an alloy of silver and lead could be worked up that would work with the riffling.Also pure silver shrinks considerably when cooled so a standard mold would yeals too small a bullet for its intended cal.I am interested in having a few myself.Im thinking a silver nose jacket on a lead core would look good and perform very well.It would give the correct fit and engraving to the bore,have a real nice look in the loaded round and of course have the necessary silver bullet for the warewolves and other assorted nasties...Robin

 

[Vstromvoyager]

...that I desperately want some real silver tipped bullets? I just want them for giggles. What would be cooler than keeping one revolver loaded up with silver tipped bullets just in case of werewolves?

Yes

 

[bumpkin]

Didn't bad guys in the old west load up 12ga shotgun rounds with a stack of 16 silver dimes? Or was that just me wasting my time watching movies ("Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid" - 1973).

 

[Mr.510]

Yes, you are a nutjob. But that's OK, I am too!

If you really want silver bullets what you ought to do is drill out the cavity in some JHPs, pour in some powdered silver, and seal it up with lead.... unless you can figure out how to make silver nitrate bullets like the Death Dealers did in Underworld, that is.

 

[Bon Sauvage]

0the Lone Ranger used silver bullets so he would only wound whoever he shot.And he never said they were pure silver so Im guessing they were a silver alloy as pure silver is too hard to engrave riffling into.But an alloy of silver and lead could be worked up that would work with the riffling.Also pure silver shrinks considerably when cooled so a standard mold would yeals too small a bullet for its intended cal.I am interested in having a few myself.Im thinking a silver nose jacket on a lead core would look good and perform very well.It would give the correct fit and engraving to the bore,have a real nice look in the loaded round and of course have the necessary silver bullet for the warewolves and other assorted nasties...Robin

Actually pure lead has a BHN of 24.5. This compares favorably with Linotype, a commonly used bullet metal, which has a BHN of 22. Alloys added to silver are designed to make it more durable and harder. Common silver alloys run BHN 100-150. When the TV show said that silver was too HARD to shoot accurately in a rifle I believe that they were blowing smoke.

As BOX13 pointed out pure silver shrinks quite a bit more then pure lead. I believe the less then stellar accuracy in the rifle was due to undersized bullets. In any case a shotgun loaded with silver buckshot ought to work just dandy if you don't want to shoot up your Mercury dimes.

 

[NK777]

I could make some It would take some doing and silver ain't cheap.

I would make them undersized then plate them with tin as to not tear up a barrel though.

 

[Trlsmn]

What kind of clientele do you get in your establishment that you need silver bullets?

 

[raindog]

Yeh; the Lone Ranger used silver bullets exclusively. But, I always thought that silver was too hard a material. I thought it would accelerate the wear on his guns' barrels.

So there's a question...if you shoot silver bullets, do you need a special cleaning process to "de-silver" your bores?

Personally, I only shoot bullets made of pure gold.

 

[Trlsmn]

So there's a question...if you shoot silver bullets, do you need a special cleaning process to "de-silver" your bores?

Personally, I only shoot bullets made of pure gold.

That might make a good defense in court. I owed him, and it was righteous payback
.

 

[HappyRoman]

short answer, MHO, YES

 

[Chee-to]

Does it make me a nutjob...
...that I desperately want some real silver tipped bullets? I just want them for giggles. What would be cooler than keeping one revolver loaded up with silver tipped bullets just in case of werewolves?

It's perfectly alright, as long as you dress appropriately..

 

[NK777]

So there's a question...if you shoot silver bullets, do you need a special cleaning process to "de-silver" your bores?

Personally, I only shoot bullets made of pure gold.

 

[Gunner3456]

You could have some copper jacketed bullets silver plated. They would polish the copper first to a high gloss and then just plate them.

 

[PlayboyPenguin]

What kind of clientele do you get in your establishment that you need silver bullets?

The worst kind...

 

[NK777]

Thanks for the picture Playboy I wondered what the dinning area looked like. Is it a coffee bar? What's it called?

 

[Trlsmn]

The worst kind...

The horror, the horror!

 

[Ding]

ooh ooh show the one making noises like an airplane flyin the spoon into the mouf..I just loves that one.

 

[Trlsmn]

ooh ooh show the one making noises like an airplane flyin the spoon into the mouf..I just loves that one.

Coctailer still feeds himself the safe way his mom did in the highchair right down to the airplane noises.