Azrednek, I too am impressed with the ww silver tips - and have been since the early 80's when I first started using them. They are my go-to projectiles for defense for both 357 and 44 mag. Lots of expansion without crazy recoil. But in reloading with silver tips, I found that you can't drive them too hard or the bullet simply blows apart. At anything even approaching max loadings the case separates from the core and the lead core separates badly at the edges as it turns into a flat saucer like projectile. I have found it to lose up to 40% of its weight. The secret seems to be to load them in the 1200 - 1300 fps range as maximum. They start working well at about 1000 fps but don't reach maximum expansion till about 1250 fps. My loadings for 357 use 16.6 to 17.5 gr of 296 which is close to the factory loading. They seem to use 296 with an added flash deterrent. In 44 mag I use 11.9 gr of unique which works fabulously for a defense round my short barreled model 27s. 296 powder doesn't work well in 44 mag because minimum starting loads of 296 powder is still way to high and cause the silver tips to disintegrate on impact. I've used 231 powder as well, but don't like it as well as the unique - recoil is too snappy and pressure seems higher. The snappy recoil at max loadings of 231 also snapped off the leaf of my rear sight on my stainless El Dorado in 44 mag, which I use when developing max loads. Unique, while not the "push" recoil of 296 powder is still closer too it than the jarring recoil of ww 231 powder in my opinion.