User blog comment:Elgb333/Western All-Stars Battle: Lone Ranger vs Man with No Name/@comment-26032472-20160603155713/@comment-422690-20160604044613

This is false. Silver is less malleable and less ductile than lead, meaning it deforms less and is in fact harder. A simple google search also shows that lead has a Mohs hardness of 1.5 while silver is 2.5.

However, a harder, more penetrative bullet does not necessarily mean more damage or more lethality. A good chunk of a bullet's damage comes from its deformation and fragmentation in the human body, hence why hollow-point bullets are banned under the Geneva Conventions. I'm not familiar with a silver bullet's ballistics and wound patterns, but there is a trade-off to everything.