Silver Bullet

A Silver Bullet (銀の弾丸, ぎんのだんがん) is a bullet cast in Silver, and is used in many weapons throughout the Hellsing universe, most notably, The Jackal, one of Alucard's weapons.

In Hellsing
In Hellsing, a bullet cast in Silver is one of the many effective ways to eliminate ghouls and vampires, it is greater than shooting them with any other bullets, or stabbing them in the heart with a wooden stake.

Effectiveness Towards Vampires
It is suggested that in Hellsing, shooting vampires once, or in most cases, twice, is enough to completely eliminate them. Weaons like The Jackal and The Casull made by Walter C. Dornez, are good examples, as they use Silver bullets for the ammunition, and they appear to work very effectively in exterminating vampires in a single shot to their vital points, however, in some cases, some vampires or in very rare cases, ghouls, still live even if shot; mostly however, the shooter just completely misses the shot. To put it simply, Silver Bullets is the easiest way to get rid of supernatural creatures other than having to drive a stake through one's heart. In addition, it's also unknown if normal bullets are effective; but it's very much, less effective than a bullet cast in silver, or any silver-blessed weapons.

However, even if Silver Bullets works the best in terms of killing vampires, you don't really need to use a gun that uses silver bullets to eliminate vampires efficiently, as people like Alexander Anderson uses bayonets blessed with Silver to exterminate vampires, doing so nicely, albeit - a bit messy. A wooden stake to the heart also works, although it takes a little longer to completely kill vampires.

However, against humans, it's not really that useful; it works the same way as normal bullets, and mainly; used as a religious and symbolic entity as silver itself is very expensive.

Weapons that uses Silver Bullets

 * Hellsing Combat Pistol 'Jackal'
 * Hellsing ARMS Casull
 * Hallconnen
 * Hallconnen II
 * Every weapons that the Hellsing Organisation has.