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Yeah I was surprised by the article. I had thought silver bullets were fairly common, at least as novelty items for shooters, rather than for actual werewolf h
by throwaway81523 5y ago
Yeah I was surprised by the article. I had thought silver bullets were fairly common, at least as novelty items for shooters, rather than for actual werewolf hunting. I guess not, though: the ones I see now all seem to be replicas unsuitable for actual shooting.
I also don't understand the casting headaches: I've seen some videos of Alec Steele making gold rings by lost wax casting and not having such trouble. Is the difference that he was willing to do a lot of hand finishing of the cast rings?
Here is one of Alec Steele's videos showing him making a ring. It's a very romantic vid for the right kind of nerd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb2ZCoiOe3k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb2ZCoiOe3k
- cryptonector 5y agohttps://www.google.com/search?&q=buy+silver+bullets https://www.google.com/search?&q=buy+silver+bullets https://www.google.com/search?q=buy+gold+bullets https://www.google.com/search?q=buy+gold+bullets Evidently there are people who know how to make them. And they look pretty good, too.
- throwaway81523 5y agoYeah I tried some searches like that, and couldn't find any silver bullets that were actually be made to be fired from a gun. What I saw was many chunks of silver shaped to look like cartridges, nice for display or as conversational novelties, but not usable as projectiles. I didn't look at every single search hit, so if you have a link to any silver bullet being sold as usable in ammo, I'd certainly look at it.
- cryptonector 5y agoOh, hmm, sure, I didn't really look far. But I figure anyone who can cast whole "cartridges" in silver, with such precision and detail, and so pretty, can probably cast just bullets in silver too. If no one does, I bet it's because reloaders don't care to load cartridges with silver bullets -- it's just too expensive!