"Tis a bit of a balancing act with the metal. If the bullet is pure silver, it won't do the damage ye need. Not enough silver, and ye get the same problem, see. Just in a different flavor." His items bagged properly, he's actually almost looking cheerful now.

"I take mostly pure silver home and tinker with it a bit so it will survive long enough to hit the target. Humans have used plenty of different material for bullets. For instance, they were once made of lead. Tis where the expression 'fill them full of lead' came from. Now a days, most bullets are steel or some mixture of iron."