With constant advancements and better understanding of ballistics, we have a wide variety of rounds and calibers for just about every threat from 9mm jacketed hollow points for enraged gorillas to 5.56 tungsten core armor-piercing for wild hog.



However, I see a lack of supply in the realm of self-defense against enemies of the supernatural variety.



Where and/or how would one acquire silver bullets for those nefarious things that go bump in the night?

Silver is cheap but still retarded to shoot 120-158gr into the dirt where it will likely never be recovered. Literally pissing money away

>>57889771 (OP)

>Where and/or how would one acquire silver bullets for those nefarious things that go bump in the night?

You'd cast it yourself and make them. Retarded but it's your money and they'll work just fine.

>>57889771 (OP)

If you're fighting werewolves or whatever, wouldn't you want something bigger than .32 ACP?

electroplating

>that silver could have fed my entire tribe for a year

Several reasons why it's hard to find:

>silver probably does some bullshit when being pushed through rifling like aluminum

>silver is cheap for a precious metal but the metal by weight is still like 5x the price of gucci bullets

>very limited market of people that actually want silver bullets are likely content to DIY or commission one-offs

>>57889771 (OP)

>5.56 tungsten core armor-piercing for wild hog.

only if you are assassinating world leaders. other wise shoot more. the idea of paying to arm grunts with uber ammo is a waste even for America levels of spending waste. 

>Where and/or how would one acquire silver bullets for those nefarious things that go bump in the night?

two ways you pour silver that you melt from silver shot, its like almost melt cost so 25 bucks an oz plus 3 or 4 dollars mark up...so not to bad. 

the other is order silver bullets....someone will rape price you on this no worries

Silver is fine as a bullet material. It's purely down to price and stupidity. As you say it's cheap for a metal in that grouping, but it's still like $275/lb vs $4/lb for copper, $1.4/lb for zinc, or $0.50/lb for lead.



Sure that's not impossible, compared to gold at $25000/lb or whatever it is now someone certainly could do that. A pound is 7000 grains, so for a 140gr round say in terms of raw material the silver would cost 550cpr, which is retarded pricey relatively speaking but anyone who shoots at all could afford a box in principle. It's just that it's completely fucking pointless.

>Silver is fine as a bullet material

It's not, compared to just casting lead, casting silver is a hassle.



https://www.patriciabriggs.com/articles/silver/silverbullets.shtml

Wouldn't silver be far too light to be an effective bullet?

It's a fine material as-in it'll perform fine if you actually had a bullet in it. That yeah it's more work to cast is almost minor compared to it costing literally hundreds of times more money for zero performance gain. As I said it's a retarded material to actually use, but not because of its material properties per se. If silver happened to be as abundant on Earth as lead and cost the same, we'd use it all over the place, and there'd probably be no copper bullets.



lol what? Lead has a density of 11.34g/cm3, bismuth is 9.78, copper is 8.96, stainless steel around 8, zinc only 7.14. Silver is 10.49, closer to lead than any other common bullet material. Where'd you get the idea silver was lightweight?
