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EBRIEN:
Hi Folks---Hope you're well and enjoying the holidays.

We know Harry uses a revolver. I wonder if he would consider attaching something magical to the bullets he uses. There were the Dragon's breath loads he mentions in one of the books (A Kincade appearance, I believe). He seemed to think there were some cool possibilities. So, how about some magic bullets?

I guess the iron content could already be effective against the Fae, but what about other creatures? Maybe an Outsider?

What do you think?

Ed0517:
Dragon's Breath are commercially available shells - I think pyrophoric magnesium powder. Nothing magic there, you can buy them yourself. Actually when they tried to make holy bullets, of engraved silver, the church said their inaccuracy meant the lead bullets were the Devil's work.... when actually, it was merely the harder silver didn't take rifling well.

Wonder, though, if you could get a chip of mordite in a bullet.... would that affect an Outsider? Supposed to be anti-life, yet the Mistfiend was alive

Conspiracy Theorist:
Theoretically if Harry had someone’s blood, he could make a seeker bullet which would be attracted to a target, and could be fired around corners, but if he has their blood, why bother? Bullets work largely because they are mundane, they break magic circles and transfer kineric energy to the target. Harry could use a variation of the enchantment he put on his rings on bullets increasing massively the kinetic energy of their impact or releasing it inside the target, but they would literally be a one shot. Maybe worth it to have a speed reloader full in his pocket for special cases. Genowskwa, or 13th Hunstman killers. Better yet Ghouls. A single bullet Centre mass won’t kill a Ghoul, (even Harry’s big revolver) but one which set off one of Harry’s ring spells inside the ghoul would probably blow a hole in it the size of a bowling ball, and definitely stop it. Harry would appreciate that. Ghoul killers it is then.

Marcone’s bullets were designed to penetrate magic, but these were created with great effort by Gard (during which period Gard wouldn’t be able to notice Marcone’s lessons with Namshiel and pass the info onto Odin)

The bullets cast by Murphy were magic in that they were inherited silver. But they were specie to use by her against a particular monster

Wild Bill used a rifle and bullets but largely as a replacement for his staff, perhaps the increased kinetic energy load suggested above compared to using fire or force directly like Harry.

g33k:
I'm guessing Jim hasn't written "magic bullets" for Harry for kinda-meta reasons:  basically, they'd be "too good."  They'd give Harry a too-easy solution.

Conspiracy Theorist:
Yep, Harry’s lucky Jim hasn’t equipped him with a catapult, or better yet a pea shooter.

Besides it’s not a breach of the First Law if Harry kills a mortal with a normal bullet, a magic bullet would be a breach, so a good in universe reason.

However CPD  and the FBI would not be so bound and certainly would want something that can slow down the monsters, the ghoul killers posited above, or a Fae killer, same deal but a hollow point filed with iron filings. Harry might design the spells, but lesser level practitioners could make them.  Not everything is susceptible to a shotgun.

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