Remington's HTP 230-grain JHP is a jacketed hollow point for personal defense, and its bullet is the heaviest in its group, 5 grains over the 225-grain loads. It leaves the muzzle at 850 fps with 369 ft-lbs, a power factor of 196. By 50 yards it has slowed to 810 fps with 335 ft-lbs left, and from a 25-yard zero it sits 2.7 inches low at 50 and 18.1 inches low at 100. Pressure is standard.

The extra weight shows up as energy and recoil, not speed. Sierra Sports Master 225-grain JHP and Winchester PDX1 Defender 225-grain JHP match its 850 fps with 8 ft-lbs less and about 4 percent less recoil energy in the same revolver. Fort Scott Munitions 225-grain TUI is 19 fps faster for the same power factor, with recoil within 1 percent. Federal American Eagle 225-grain JSP is the closest peer: 10 fps faster with the same 369 ft-lbs, and it holds speed a little better, 19 fps ahead at 50 yards and 0.9 inch less drop at 100. Federal Champion 225-grain LSWCHP trails by 20 fps at the muzzle and 20 ft-lbs at 50 yards. At 50 yards both Federal loads land within 0.2 inch of the HTP, so neither changes the hold.

Buy it for home defense in a .45 Colt revolver when you want the heaviest standard-pressure hollow point in this class. Shooters who want less recoil give up little with the Federal Champion. For practice that is easier to shoot, Fiocchi Training Dynamics 225-grain CMJ runs 750 fps with about 22 percent less recoil energy in the same revolver.