History Main / SilverBullet

* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'': Silver bullets are hard to male but have no negative effect on range or damage, against werewolves they do multiplied damage. ''High-Tech'' points out one potential problem: because they are relatively soft silver bullets can mess up rifled firearms. Notably, this is wrong. Silver is ''harder'' than lead, but also less dense. It has also been discovered that a silver bullet will shrink while cooling, and thus a silver bullet cast in a regular bullet mold comes out smaller than the intended size. Also, silver does not "mushroom" in the barrel as much as lead does. Thus, the bullet does not form a proper seal against the grooves of the barrel, allowing much of the gas to escape around the bullet, and the bullet does not get as much spin imparted to it. As a result, a silver bullet has a shorter range and less stopping power (except against werewolves, of course) when compared to a lead bullet.

** Werewolves in Teen Wolf aren't especially susceptible to silver, but rather their bane is the Argent family (Argent being French for silver). [[spoiler: It's eventually revealed that Beast of Gevaudan required very specific methods to kill it, including a silver spear-tip.]]