Your Ideal Doomsday Survival Situation/Prepper Thread

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Originally Posted by em2nought

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Somebody should really introduce ammo with silver bullets instead of lead. You could then sell all your silver, and just keep ammo cutting your storage weight significantly.

Melt down granny’s silver set then cast your own silver boolits and load the ammo yourself. It’s easy to do, no rocket science required. You can pick-up a press, reloading dies, and boolit mold for under 250 dollars. If you shoot a lot it pays for itself fairly quick using Starline brass you could reuse their straight case brass easily 3-5 times before worrying about the case cracking (depends on powder charge and annealing process). Expendables like powder, cartridge cases, primers the price will go up a little more.

On a more serious note unless you’re hunting werewolves silver may not be the best metal to shoot through the barrel anyway. Best brinell hardness of the boolit depends on the powder charge and muzzle velocities achieved with the gun you’re shooting. Too soft or hard and the barrel might lead up.