[QUOTE=carnivorousplant]
Reload with wooden pellets, silver coins, some guitar strings and you can take out vampires, werewolfs, and the Elder gods.
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Cool deal, except that I happen to like some of the Elder Gods. Even hope to become one myself someday…
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant]
Reload with wooden pellets, silver coins, some guitar strings and you can take out vampires, werewolves, and the Elder gods.
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That is a good point. However, don’t you think you could use silver plated bullets for werewolves? Solid silver ones would be very expensive especially if you want to use them in a machine gun in case you stumble upon a whole herd of werewolves. Surely, their effectiveness is just due to surface area contact with vital organs. Solid silver ones aren’t much better for that.
If I knew for certain, silver plated ones are just as good, I wouldn’t feel guilty about selling them as self-defense projectiles and make a nice profit on something that is very cheap to make. However, if they aren’t effective against real werewolves, I could just see the product liability suits rolling in as the body count grows from a tragically failed defense.
[QUOTE=Happy Clam]
Guitar strings?
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A joke.
One of H.P. Lovecraft’s protagonist’s Silver John? Singing John? Defeated evil creatures by playing aguitar with silver strings.
[QUOTE=Shagnasty]
However, don’t you think you could use silver plated bullets for werewolves?
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Nah, this is one of those things I don’t want to screw around with. You get what you pay for.
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant]
A joke.
One of H.P. Lovecraft’s protagonist’s Silver John? Singing John? Defeated evil creatures by playing aguitar with silver strings.
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It’s Silver John and not Lovecraft; it was Manley Wade Wellman. Good books, by the way.
[QUOTE=Der Trihs]
It’s Silver John and not Lovecraft; it was Manley Wade Wellman. Good books, by the way.
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Ah, thanks. I better come up with something else for the Elder gods, then. 
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant]
Ah, thanks. I better come up with something else for the Elder gods, then.
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I suggest a bullet to the head. Not their head (?) silly, your head.
Well, it’s surely preferable to the alternatives, if faced with an Elder God.
[QUOTE=Happy Clam]
I suggest a bullet to the head. Not their head (?) silly, your head.
Well, it’s surely preferable to the alternatives, if faced with an Elder God.
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Nah, just be pals with this guy.
Conan’s taken out plenty of those guys.
[QUOTE=Larry Borgia]
I think Blade and his buddies were using some sort of UV ray gun against the super vamps in Blade II.
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Actually, IIRC, they used the UV gun in Blade, UV bombs (and possibly grenades) in Blade II, and some concentrated UV-beam-built-into-a-bow thing in Blade Trinity.
(I am in no way proud that I can kinda remember these things.) 
So, what about laser beams? Do they have too narrow a spectrum to do any good?
[QUOTE=Shagnasty]
just as good, I wouldn’t feel guilty about selling them as self-defense projectiles and make a nice profit on something that is very cheap to make. However, if they aren’t effective against real werewolves, I could just see the product liability suits rolling in as the body count grows from a tragically failed defense.
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You’d probably do better loading silver buckshot. Apparently there are some issues with casting and sizing silver bullets that are tricky, in that silver’s melting point is much higher than lead, and the finished product is much harder, soall the olds and paraphrenalia made for casting and sizing lead bullets won’t work so well.
Just don’t invite the damn vampire into your house, then it won’t be an issue. 
[QUOTE=CynicalGabe]
Just don’t invite the damn vampire into your house, then it won’t be an issue.
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The trouble is those wall-hangings that say “Welcome to our humble home.” My poor sainted aunt hung one in her foyer. The next day we found her withered, bloodless body.
