Hot working sterling silver

Anyone has any experience hot working sterling silver? I have this bar of sterling silver thats fighting me at every turn. Its roughly 5 mm thick and I do not have a rolling press. The darn thing won't move unless I seriously get swinging no matter how much I anneal it (dull red in a dark room for 3 minutes then water quench). After all this ado, I thought I'd go back to my roots, blacksmithing. Do you guys have experience working your silver while it was hot? How hot would you get it to be? With steel its usually a bright orange almost yellow but I fear this will get the silver to melt or at least is gonna be too close for comfort.