# Silver Bullets: Where to buy? Whom do they effect? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 21, 2000, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-bullets-where-to-buy-whom-do-they-effect/20081 "2000-05-21T00:52:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-bullets-where-to-buy-whom-do-they-effect/20081/41 "2003-12-31T00:49:12Z")
Quite apart from werewolves and other such entities, I believe silver bullets would be found to be effective against ordinary mortal humans. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-bullets-where-to-buy-whom-do-they-effect/20081/42 "2003-12-31T01:59:50Z")
Why not a [super-soaker](http://www.isoaker.com/Info/history_supersoaker.cfm), filled with Silver Nitrate? ---
**Author:** ![Herb\_Twoleaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/57b2e6/32.png) [@Herb\_Twoleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Herb_Twoleaf)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-bullets-where-to-buy-whom-do-they-effect/20081/43 "2003-12-31T02:02:15Z")
Winchester Silver Tip Hollow Points… Everywhere fine firearms are sold. Go ahead, Broomhilda, make my day. ---
**Author:** ![lokij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@lokij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lokij)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-bullets-where-to-buy-whom-do-they-effect/20081/44 "2003-12-31T05:14:29Z")
I’ve always liked the idea of shotgun shells filled with blessed rosary beads. Wooden ones for vampires and silver ones for were-creatures. It’s the cold iron projectiles that are a bitch, for the fey. ;\> ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-bullets-where-to-buy-whom-do-they-effect/20081/45 "2003-12-31T05:39:22Z")
Damn. Herb stole my contribution. I was going to say that you can easily buy Winchester Silvertrips, at least for a .38. According to this, you can get it in pretty much any handgun caliber you want. [Catalog | Winchester Ammunition](http://www.winchester.com/ammunition/store/cfhlist.aspx?cartlist=bm9uZQ==&uselist=none&brandlist=none&bullettype=STHP) Hypothecially, if you were facing vampires, I don’t see why you couldn’t get regular lead bullets and use a knife or something to carve a cross into the point(one line, then another bisecting it. Good enough for government work). Unfortunatly, Witches can only be killed by water or by dropping a house on their heads. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Turbo\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@Turbo\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turbo_Dog)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-bullets-where-to-buy-whom-do-they-effect/20081/46 "2003-12-31T06:03:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Inky- \* > **… theres a lot of heated debate among vampire afficianados on this point).** I remember when I was in the service in the barracks watching Bugs Bunny, where Yosemite Sam has a dragon. A guy stood up and left during the cartoon, violently pissed because GREEN dragons do not breath fire… only RED dragons do that. People who debate dragons and vampires and stuff are scary folk. You are writing a short story, not a Clancy novel. Just make it clear that the guy made his own silver bullets, ala Estes in Darkest Hearts by Nancy Collins (Sonja Blue books, which to me by far are the only vampire books worth reading… Anne Rice is shit). The reader doesn’t need to know how, unless you are just killing time. Are you telling a short horror story or giving a class on internal ballistics? In any event, bullet molds are available through any dealer and even mail order. Remove original bullet with pliers or a kinetic bullet puller. Put silver bullet into case with original powder, reseat with a Lee bullet press. Silver is not hard enough to be a problem for the gun barrel. After a few thousand rounds yes, but not for a guy who waxes a witch a week. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Master Wang-ka \* > \*\* …Shooting a human or humanoid target with the thing at any kind of range would not kill, so much as irritate…_\* What have you been reading about 20 gauge shotguns? My mom has shot three 200+ lb. deer at 100 yards with a 20 gauge that dropped in their tracks. A 12 gauge is a lot more powerful, yes, but a 12 gauge, like a 20 gauge is a fowling piece. That’s what shotguns are. A 20 gauge slug has more energy than a .44 magnum. Also, when you are reloading, you aren’t seating a bullet into crimped brass. You crimp the brass after you reload. Stock and/or fired brass is uncrimped. You can’t have crimped brass without a bullet. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-bullets-where-to-buy-whom-do-they-effect/20081/47 "2003-12-31T07:35:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Diceman \* > \*\*BTW: the funniest vampire movie I’ve seen was one I saw on, IIRC, the USA Network. I only saw a few minutes of it and don’t know the title, but these two guys filled a pair of Super-Soakers with holy water, and then cleared out a room full of vampires. The holy water dissolved the vampires like it was acid. It was a little gory, but hillariously funny! \*\* > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by GuanoLad_ > **From Dusk Till Dawn** Actually, I think he’s remembering _[Bordello of Blood](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0117826/)_ with Dennis Miller, Angie Everhart and Chris Sarandon. The two guys (of whom Dennis is one) get to the vampiric bordello below by way of the old coffin-through-the-false-crematory secret route routine (I mean, talk about movie cliches!;)) and start shooting away with their holy water-filled water guns. All to the inspired music choice of Sweet’s _Ballroom Blitz_. That movie cracked my stuff up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silver-bullets-where-to-buy-whom-do-they-effect/20081.md?page=2)