On Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 10:54:31 PM UTC-8, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 15:52:57 -0800 (PST), whit3rd
wrote:

On Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 7:50:40 AM UTC-8, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Mon, 04 Jan 2016 21:49:24 -0800, Gunner Asch
wrote:

I think Silver makes a GREAT material for bullets...

Think "silver solder" fouling.

And what cleans the bore of this?

Silver as a contaminant is removable with nitric acid, or (slowly) with chlorine
bleach. But, it's soluble in lead; just run a few soft-lead rounds through the
barrel, then you just have lead to clean.

Ah..its not quite that easy. Take a lead bullet and try wiping off
silver solder from a piece of steel.

Dissolves faster in hot lead, than in a handheld lump. Pure silver won't build up
much of a layer, it isn't very strong. In the days before mass-produced graphite, there
were both lead-wire and silver-wire pencils in use.