Deus Machina
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And I want to say vampires don't cast reflections on mirrors cause the original mirrors were silver
I want to agree with you. IIRC, it's because polished silver is an element of purity. Scientifically, it's because silver does indeed affect the blood. For example, overdosing on colloidal silver will turn your skin blue. Sometimes permanently.
And in the Dresden Files, a character (IIRC a Russian, fittingly) specifically uses cheap steel-jacketed rounds in a battle against the fey. With appropriate results.
I have to agree with Monster Hunter International's solution to the silver bullet problem by essentially copying the Cor-Bon Pow'R Ball: a JHP with a polymer ball pressed into the cavity to recreate the shape of FMJ. Except MHI does a silver ball. Would act like a regular jacketed bullet and be a ton cheaper than solid silver slugs.
If you need to shoot something with silver, you don't need much silver. If you don't need silver, well, you still shot it.
To keep it directly gun-related, I used to believe that silver bullets would actually be effective. In reality, they would be lighter than lead, so they wouldn't have the energy. They would also be substantially harder, so hollowpoints wouldn't expand well, and anything would cause problems with pressure or have trouble engaging rifling properly. And then would need different rifling to stabilize properly anyway.
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