Reviews


Hi Kobus,
Hi Kobus

FYI

All these animals were shot with rhino solid shank or monolithic soldis on
our hunt in Zimbabwe in Sept 2006. All bullets performed 100%. I recovered a
solid (458) from my buffalo (99,9%) that broke the bulls neck, Willem
recovered a 458 (500gr) soft from his bull (97%). Unfortunately we lost my
soft in the skinning process, but I hit the bull behind the last rib,
angling forward. The bullet went through the side of the rumen, the top of
the heart and lodged in the neck muscles. That's penetration.

Calibers: 450 Rigby (500gr), 375H&H (300gr) and 9,3X62 (286gr)
Regards

Anton

Hi Kobus

This is the damage caused by a Rhino 500gr (.458) solid shank. The top of
the heart was shot to pieces. I shot a charging buffalo cow at 7 yards on
the point of the shoulder with my 450 Rigby. She dropped on the spot.

Anton

Hi Kobus

Ek het die Gemsbok op 150 m met my .270 met 'n 130g punt geskiet

Ek het klaar die fotos van die punt gestuur en het na gelaat om te
se dat die gewig is steeds 129.6g

Albert Smit

BRNO 458 Express at a velocity of 2230 fps

Kobus Attached are some pics of the Buff I shot last week as well as the two recovered bullets. First Bullet was broadside shot through chest and lungs and was recovered in the skin on the far side. Was a lethal shot through both lungs and major pulmonary blood vessels. Have still got to do weight retention - will do that tonight. Second bullet was shot as the buff turned and ran. Hit the second last rib on left hand side, traveled through rumen, diaphragm, left lung, cut the aorta and was found against the first rib on the right hand side. This in itself would also have been a lethal shot. They were shot from a BRNO 458 Express at a velocity of 2230 fps. Distance of first shot was 58m, second shot was 74 m, and the buff was found roughly 80m from the place of the first shot. I am very happy with these bullets, as was Koos Badenhorst, the developer of the Express and who was also present on the hunt. I will most likely at some stage be presenting an article on this hunt to one of the magazines, but thought that I'd give you some immediate feedback Regards Gary

Alistair Haig.

Attached is another photo showing the hole above the heart. Please
let me know if you manufacture 570gr .510" monolithic's; I'd love to
test some.

Regards,
Alistair Haig.

375, 235gr

Dear Rhino Bullets I attach two pictures of a Rhino core bonded bullet used recently to hunt a Gemsbok. The bullet is a .375, 235gr bullet and performed brilliantly as shown, killing the Gemsbok with one shot from ca 100m Weight retention is 226gr, i.e. 96%. It was found under the skin on the far side shoulder. It was fired from a blaser R93 rifle and previous tests have shown that the bullet is launched at just over 2800 ft/s. . Excellent! Thank you and kind regards Helmut Bartens Somerset West

Rhino 6mm bullet performance

Thanks Rhino. I recently hunted a crop raiding warthog with the 75gr 6mm bullet. The recovered bullet had retained over 94% of its mass and had expanded to a diameter of 18mm at its widest (3 x bored diameter). Meat damage was acceptable considering the short range (approx 80m) and the fact that the bullet was still traveling at approx. 3000fps. I include a photo of the recovered bullet with an unfired one, and one of the warthog and I.

Initially i was uncertain that I had selected a bullet weight that was too light for hunting tougher animal with the 243W, but my rifle has a distinctive preference for the lighter bullets, and that was the determining factor in selecting the light 75gr's. After this I'll gladly use it on the species I normally hunt with the 243W. I can't wait till May to test it on a few Blesbuck.

Thanks for an excellent locally made product. In this case 'Local is Lekker'.

Keith Tiquin

Hello Kobus

I`m back from a new trip in the Limpopo province where I shot; Warthog, Impala, Waterbuck and a Civet cat. The Civet exploded when I shot it at 70 meters, I did not take any picture of the cat, because of all the damages

On this hunt I used 375 H&H mag loaded with 270 grs Rhino Solid Shank

Thank you for a excellent hunting bullet.

The accuracy is 3 shot in 15 mm

Warthog 9” shot at 60 meters the bullets went thru, and the pig dropped dead

Black faced Impala 23” shot at 90 meters, shot
in the front, the bullet went thru between the shoulder blades. The impala drop dead

Waterbuck 27” shot at 80 meters, the bullet went thru in the top of the hart.
After 300 meters the animal took of and I shot it from behind, the bullet hit right behind the ribs and split the hart I two pieces, I found the bullet in the skin on left side of the chest.
This one is a tuff bastard, it ran 300 meters between two shots, and it also run about 100 meters after the second shot.

375 H&H Mag 270 grs Rhino weight after expanding 246 grs.

The core is empty of lead.

Length after expansion 19millimeter

Width after expansion 21,5 millimeter

This bullet is loaded with:
Remington Cases
Federal 215 primers
82,0 grs Norma 204
Col 91,0 mm
Velocity: 2650 Feet/sec

Med vennlig hilsen

Hallgeir R Gravråk

Hagen

2345 Ådalsbruk

Hi Kobus

Nogmaals baie dankie vir die 2 pakkies Rhino 250gr in 338 kaliber wat jy vir my gestuur het.

Foto van gemsbokbul geskiet op 268m( Rangefinder ) met .338 Win Mag 250gr Rhino punt @ 2600ft/sek. Perfekte hart skoot bok het so 70m gehardloop en geval. Punt het reg deur geskiet en is nie gekry nie. Het ook 4 ander gemsbokke met dieselfde punte geskiet, kopskote dit was redelik naby. Baie akkuraat.

Nogmaals dankie

Thys Ellis Centurion

375 loads

Hi Kobus

Just some feedback on EXCELLENT bullet performance

I shot the buffalo bull a slightly angling shoulder shot at 31 meters, the 300 grain bullet totally shattered the shoulder bone, went through the top part of the hart, penetrated the lungs, entered and exited part the stomach. The recovered bullet had a perfect mushroom shape with only one petal missing, unfortunately I do not have a suitable scale to do accurate measurements to determine % weight retention.

Regards:

Rudi Britz

Hi Kobus

Ek het die bos vark die 1/4/07 in die suiker riet in KZN geskiet.
Geweer .223 spoed 3168v/sec
Afstand 22m
Herwinde punt se gewig 42gr
Ek jag uitsluitlik met rhino punte .223/.30/.375/45-70 met baie goeie resultate

Groete
George Dyman

Kobus

Just back from Zim and very happy with the big bullets. Shot a Buff with a 380 and he was down within 30 yards bullet shot him in the chest heart, lungs and ended up in the stomach one shot. Made the PH very happy. Shot a Water buck with a 350 and he was down with in 50 yards total destruction of heart and lungs. I settled on the RL15 Powder for these bullets 67 grains for the 380 and 70 for the 350 speeds were around 2250 for the 380 and 2300 plus for the 350.RGDS CS

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Hallo Daar !

Ek het die afgelope langnaweek die geleentheid gehad om ‘n Swart wildebees op ‘n jag/wildplaas, naby Harrismith (Vrystaat) te jag. Ek het ook van die geleentheid gebruik gemaak om ‘n Blesbok te jag. As ‘n gebore Kapenaar was dit my eerste kennismaking met die jag van hierdie diere en ook met die uitdagings wat jag in die Vrystaat-omgewing teweeg bring.

Ek het die Swart wildebees met ‘n 175gr Rhino punt (gelaai oor 40.0gr S335 vir ±2485v/s) uit my .303 geweer oor ‘n afstand van ongeveer 100m geskiet nadat ek die dier oor ‘n baie lang afstand bekruip het en in die proses heelwat nerwe verloor het en ook ‘n paar kneusplekke opgedoen het. Die skoot was skuins van voor, net voor die linkerblad in en het by die ribbes net agter die regterblad uit. Die longe en lewer was aan flarde en die dier het na ‘n kort stormloop van ongeveer 20m neergeslaan. Die vleisskade was minimaal.

Ek het die Blesbok met ‘n 85gr Rhino punt (gelaai oor 23.0gr S321 vir ± 2560v/s) uit my 6x45mm geweer oor ‘n afstand van ongeveer 150m geskiet. Die veld was gelukkig minder klipperig en die gras en bossies heelwat sagter. Die skoot was skuins van agter, by die ribbes net agter die regterblad in en het net voor die linkerblad uit. Die longe en lewer was weereens aan flarde en die vleisskade minimaal. Die dier het na ‘n kort stormloop van ongeveer 30m neergeslaan.

Lading-ontwikkeling in beide my jaggewere was baie maklik met uitstekende akkuraatheid. Vleisskade tot nou toe was deurgans minimaal, mits daar nie been getref word nie, en ek het nog geen stukkies koeëlpunt in die vleis aangetref nie. Ek sal dus die gebruik van hierdie punte, sonder enige voorbehoud, aanbeveel.

Jagtersgroete

Johan Snyman

z458 Express and Rhino Bullets

The exorbitantly high cost of having 458 Win Mag rifles re-chambered to the 458 Lott, and the unsatisfactory and unsafe 458 Lott reloading results with South African powders, set the development of the 458 Express in motion By making the case a little longer, this cartridge-rifle combination is a lot safer. The ballistics of the 458 Express with 500 grain bullets, is similar to the famed 458 Loft when the tatter is reloaded with ball powder. However, there is the substantial advantage of lower pressure and the supreme safety of extruded powders.

It has been developed in Africa for African conditions. In combination with the superbly constructed 425 grain Rhino bullet, it might be flexible enough to become the mythical all round African rifle.' Proof of the qualities of the 425 grain Rhino bullet, is this magnificent 53" Kudu bull, bagged at a distance of 40 meters. The bullet expansion was perfect, none of the petals broke, and the weight loss, a mere 5 grains!

Ek jag net met die 200gr Rhino punte op die 30-06. Ek laai self, en my jag-amunisie is 2294ft/s, met 'n 3 skoot groep van 9mm oor 'n afstand van 100m.

Ek het hierdie jaar twee blou wilde beeste gejag. Die een het ek 'n opvolg skoot geskiet nadat die ander jagter se kopskoot (met 180gr pro-Amm) onder deur die horing was. My opvolg was 'n long-skoot, regdeur. Die uitgang wond was groot wat goeie werking aandui. Hierdie BWB het drie tree verder geval.
Die ander een was op ongeveer 150m, bladskoot. Die BWB koei het geval en opgestaan, ons het 250m op die bloedspoor geloop en die BWB dood aangetref. Die punt is weereens regdeur maar die uitgang wond was so dat die bloedspoor duidelik en maklik gevolg kan word.
Terloops
geen vleis skade is veroorsaak nie en ook geen sponserigheid is waargeneem nie.

Niemand sal aan my 'n ander jagpunt verkoop as net julle Rhino-punte nie.

Tikka Groete
Hendrik Croukamp
Phalaborwa

Good day

I shot 2 eland bulls this year with a 300gr caliber 375 and just want to
tell u what a excellent bullet rhino is .I was a bit unsure to use rhino as I
was comfortable with barness X,but after I've used it, I promote these as
the best

Thanks

Kobus Erasmus

E-Mail: kobus.erasmus@samancorCr.co.za

I just want to thank you on a brilliant bullet ,I used the 160gr 7mm in my
7*64 loaded with 52,5gr s365 @2870f/s every animal I have shot with this
combo has dropped on the spot. I shot a fellow deer at +- 210m it went
straight through the front shoulder and came to stop under the skin on the
opposite side ,it lost one petal on bone but still had 91% weight retention.

What more do you want???
Thanks again

Warren

CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST MAGAZINE REVIEW FROM SWEDEN
I tried your bullets on norwegian moose and was very satiesfied whit their
performance. Restweight was appr. 94 % after hitting a moose at 40 meters.

Now I wonder what kind of BC these bullets have. I am now thinking of 7mm (160gr)
and 30 cal.(180 gr). It would be nice if you could provide me with the
information on these two bullets. I am also planning on using them on
roedeer and hope they are soft enough to expand at slow speeds aswell.

Boerge, Norway

Ps. I`m findig your bullets to be very accurate in my rifles!

200 grein .30 kaliber punte

Kobus,

Ek gebruik net jou 200 grein punte in my 300 H & H met 'n lading van 64 gr S385.

Ek het die afgelope naweek (10-05-2003) weer gesien dat hierdie kombinasie absoluut dodelik is op groter spesies wat bekend is vir hulle uithouvermoë. Ek het 'n besonder groot Blouwildebees bul op sowat 130 meter deur die longe en hart geskiet nadat die punt eers die bladbene moes breek.

Vleis-skade was minimaal en die bul het binne 20 meter van waar hy getref is, geval. Die 200 gr punt het na die tyd 187.6 gr geweeg nadat dit perfek oopgevou het - 94% retensie!

Groete,

Jaco le Roux
(Johannesburg)
Mauritz & Rhino Bullets

In my humble opinion, there is no better expanding bullet for the serious hunter or professional hunter. I am not implying to be an expert on the subject, but these bullets are all I am interested in using except perhaps on elephant, rhino and hippo (out of water), for anything else (wounded buffalo included) give me Rhino's.

I have never lost an animal hunted by myself or back-up shot's while using Rhino bullets. I recommend them to anybody whom I have conversations with regarding bullets. They give me the highest degree of confidence and in the professional hunting game the last thing you need to worry about is bullet performance. I hope to test these bullets in my 500 Jefferies on some thick skin animals. I'll certainly give you feedback. Rhino Bullets and Mauritz thank you very much for all your help, advice and perfect bullets.

Yours faithfully

I.E. van Wyk (Mhondoro)
Blue Wildebeest Bull

Place: Selati - Klerksdorp
Hunter: Mr Rob Martin
PH: Mr I.E. van Wyk
Outfitter: Nimrod Safaris
Caliber: 375 H & H Mag A-Frame 300gr hand loaded to +- 2600fps
Caliber PH: 375 H & H Mag Bullet 380gr Rhino +- 2150fps

Shot quartering away, too high too far back right hip, hitting bone; Blue Wildebeest went +- 600 meters. Back-up shot (PH) straight going away missing "Free State heart shot" by +- 3 inches lower to right at +- 120 meters.
Blue Wildebeest stopped trembling with legs splayed; allowing client to finish him off broadside.

This bullet travelled the full length of the Blue Wildebeest Bull (through the rumen).
We cut it out the neck - more than 100% bullet performance!

Eland Cow

Place: Northam
Hunter: Mr M Besuidenhoud
PH: Mr I.E. van Wyk

Eland quartering foreward right. Distance +- 40 meters.
Shot placement, very bad. Instead of front of left front leg (chest) shot placed behind left front leg ending up in right back leg, missing all vitals (heart; lungs) and went through liver. Eland was tracked for +- 250 meters and found dead. Bad shot, 100% bullet performance!

Gemsbok Bull

Place: Northam
Hunter: Mr M Besuidenhoud
PH: Mr I.E. van Wyk
Caliber: 7 x 57
Bullet: 170gr Rhino @ 2250 fps

Distance +- 120 meters, "Plankdwars"
Entry right shoulder exit left shoulder, high shot through spine, 2 petals found in gemsbok after going through spine, rest of bullet exited, gemsbok went 0 meters, 100% bullet performance!

RE: BALLISTIC REPORT

Dear Kobus, Herewith the results of tests carried out on the 7. (seven) 380gn on .458” core bonded bullets that you sent me for testing, i.e. 4 thick wall and 3 thin walled bullets. I gave 2 of each to a friend to load for his .450" Rigby. No names, no pickdrill, he is still a friend. He reported back, muzzle velocity 2 400 f.p.s and when asked penetration, weight retention etc. I was informed that he could not retrieve them from the brick wall, which he used as a backstop. Enough said. No test. The remaining three 1 thin wall + 2 thick walled bullets tested were as follows;

Rhino bullets, manufactured by Kobus van der Westhuizen, fall into the premium bullet category and are, in hunting terms, virtually indestructible. I tested these bullets in .308 calibre on game in 1998 (May edition) but to refresh memories let's quickly recap. The Rhino bullet has a solid shank and a bonded lead core in the front section. 'Jackets' are machined from solid copper rods, the front section drilled out and filled with lead and this lead core is then fused to the ‘jacket' by a heat/chemical process. The ogive is swage-formed and finally the bullet is moly-coated.

This grey molybdenum-based coating is currently very popular with benchrest and varmint shooters and is reputed to enhance accuracy, lower pressures, reduce barrel fouling and prolong barrel life. If you do not like it, you can order bullets without the coating. Because the core does not separate from the 'jacket' and expansion stops at the solid shank, this design ensures very high weight retention (and thus deep penetration). I have worked with Rhino bullets in eight calibres and have always enjoyed superb accuracy with the minimum amount of load tinkering. They are a pleasure to use.

At first Kobus concentrated on calibres up to .308, but as demand for the Rhinos grew, he ventured into medium and big-bore territory - new to his range are bullets in .838,9.3, .375, .416 and .458 calibre. A special bullet for the .45-70 weighs 360gr and the front section has thinner walls than his normal .458 bullets to ensure reliable expansion at the low .45-70 velocities.

My .375 prefers heavy bullets so I decided to try 290gr solids and 300gr softs. My normal bushveld load for the .375 launches a 300gr softnose at 2300fps so I tried 6lgr S335 with the Rhino and struck gold right from the start. Three-shot groups measured a hair over an inch and the average velocity recorded was 2325fps. The 290-grainer with the same load was good for 2347fps and three-shot groups of 1½” at 100m. Because my rifle has a standard-length action, I had to limit overall cartridge length to 92mm.

My first opportunity to test the big bore Rhinos on game came during a hunt in Namibia where I shot two gemsbuck bulls and a kudu bull. The first gemsbuck needed two shots as the first (from 200m) was placed too high. Both bullets (behind the shoulder and squarely in the neck) whistled right through the animal.

I shot the second gemsbuck and the kudu bull at 130 and 7Om respectively. The gemsbuck stood side on while the kudu was running away from me at a slight angle. Placed low on the gemsbuck's shoulder, the 300gr bullet punched through the heart and the bull died after a short run. My shot on the kudu was placed slightly higher. Passing over the heart, the Rhino severed the big arteries and exited close to the junction of the neck and shoulder. On all three animals the exit wounds indicated good expansion.

Piet Engelbrecht, my friend from the Moordenaarskaroo, shot a buffalo cow with the 480gr bullet from his .458 Brno. He used 69.5gr S321 for 2080fps and, with open sights, could put three shots into 1½” at 50m from a sitting position. A single, well-placed bullet fired from 35m dropped the buffalo almost in her tracks - she managed only 5m, The autopsy showed that the Rhino had severed the arteries above the heart, messed up the lungs, punched through a rib on the far side before exiting behind the left shoulder. Judging by the size of the exit hole, expansion was perfect.

We performed some standard torture tests. After bisecting one soft nose of each calibre I tried to separate core and jacket with a screwdriver and knife, but failed. We also fired soft noses into sand - only those fired at almost point-blank range lost their cores. Mauritz Coetzee of VLT Arms fired the 360gr bullets from a .460 Weatherby into a wetpack at 15m. Muzzle velocity was 2700fps and the Rhinos retained more than 60% of their original weight. A 360 grainer fired from a .458 Lott into a wetpack at 30m retained 96%.

Rhino bullets perform on a par with imported premium-grade bullets and they are cheaper. The 300gr .375’s sell for R160 for 25 (postage included for SA) - well below comparable imports. The Rhino full range now includes bullets in: .243, .257, .264, .270, .284, 308 and the big game calibres mentioned. Try your dealer or contact Kobus van der Westhuizen on (043) 736-1822.

November 1999 MANMAGNUM

Rhino Bullets of East London now manufactures a 350 grain .458 bonded bullet of a flatnose design that works through the tubular magazine of the MARLIN rifle. Through a process of trial and error this bullet is now designed to expand fully at velocities of 1400 feet per second with an almost guaranteed weight retention between 90-100%. This same bullet is also offered in a thicker jacketed form so that it can be used in the 458 Win.Mag, the 458 Lott and the 458 watts. In fact a 100% weight retention has been achieved with this bullet even though it has been fired into a wetpack of telephone directories (at a distance of 15 meters) whilst still offering a beautiful mushrooming effect.

Mauritz Coetzee – SA Hunter (April 1999)

I do not hesitate to recommend this product of superior quality at a reasonable price to anyone. I believe that other calibers and bullet weights will be available soon.

I look forward to use it in my .270 next season.

Alwyn Fourie , Professional Hunter

I prefer Rhino's to any other premium grade bullet because they are cheaper and VERY ACCURATE! Another bonus is that reloaders do not have to experiment like with other monolithics to get top class accuracy. Just follow normal reloading procedures. Rhino bullets are available in popular calibres from .243 to .458.

BELIEVE ME, RHINO BULLETS ARE SIMPLY THE BEST!

Koos Barnard, Assistant Editor - Rifles and Hunting, Magnum Magazine

Hi Kobus!

RE: BALLISTIC REPORT

Alwyn Fourie , Professional Hunter

Koos Barnard, Assistant Editor - Rifles and Hunting, Magnum Magazine