I have a box and a half or so of the 95gr Silvertip left from '79 or '80. I carried it in a 2" Colt Cobra. In a 15oz revolver the recoil was little or none. The muzzle flash was something else. It was like producing your own little sun.

At the time, according to the gun rags, this load and the Remington 95gr were supposed to give the same muzzle energy from a 2"bbl as the 158LRN gave from a 4" bbl. No one had a chronograph, so who knows the actual energy. The POI out of that Cobra was about 4" low at 7 yds. I gave up on it for that reason.

Also, about that time it began to dawn on me that a little penetration might be a good thing. Even without the jello junkies around to do the test, some people began to wonder if these light for caliber bullets (no matter how much their theoretical expansion) would go deep enough to do the job.