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I fancy casting a couple of Silver bullets for no good reason, I am sure I can find enough around the house to cast a couple of 200 grainers however all I have is aluminium moulds. Now given that Silver melts at around 960C and Aluminium at 660C is it fair to assume things will end in tears?

Any hints or tips for doing this and has anyone tried?

ovenpaa wrote:I fancy casting a couple of Silver bullets for no good reason, I am sure I can find enough around the house to cast a couple of 200 grainers however all I have is aluminium moulds. Now given that Silver melts at around 960C and Aluminium at 660C is it fair to assume things will end in tears?

Any hints or tips for doing this and has anyone tried?

Werewolf problem ?

I believe historically firing sliver bullets was at least tried in the muzzle loading era. It's mentioned in the Beast of Gevaudan legend as being what killed it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_G%C3%A9vaudan

However I believe Mythbuster's tried it and in the end found they were slightly slower than lead and less accurate. It seems they can be formed though. I'm no expert Ovenpaa but you mentioning the Aluminium melting earlier than the Silver means, the moulds will melt first and you'll end up with a mess, assuming you heat the silver first, you'll be pouring something alot hotter than what the ali can take, so something will tell me from my basic secondary school chemistry.... you're gonna be needing new mould, something that will survive past 960C.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a- ... g-plaster/

This mentions how to create a reusable mould from plastic for silver though. Any help?

I don't know what those c numbers mean but if it means what F would mean relatively then yes using an aluminium mould would end in tears.

Iron blocks should be fine.

It has been covered of and on over the years on Cast Boolits here is a link to one thread:

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthr ... Werewolves

Soapstone used to be used for DIY molds at one stage

Sixshot6 wrote:I believe historically firing sliver bullets was at least tried in the muzzle loading era.

Not true - the Lone Ranger used them in the late 19th century.

David, what calibre are you looking at?

Redcat

If you do manage I would love to buy one from you.

regards

Ewen

If it's just one or two, I would rough cast a couple of silver slugs by dibbing a finger in a flowerpot of sand and turning them up on the lathe.

Its cheaper to buy 50 Cal rounds than shoot 180 grain silver bullets and that's with the metal price low at the moment.

You could always take the easy way out and cast round musket balls. Just sayin'.

Needs to be silver...nothing else works on werewolves