Anybody ever hunt rhino?

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I know there are folks who have traveled to Africa on here so I have a question. A rhino is facing you, he see's you and is coming at you. Where do you aim?
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With that great horn protecting the head, where would one aim? I'm almost finished a great book about a world traveler who claimed you waited until a charging rhino is almost upon you, then dodge left or right then fire. I couldn't imagine having the presense of mind to do that, so I had to think where would you try to thread a bullet in? :confused:
 
Here, this will help.
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I'm with Gatehouse and circled my choices. The 'hump' on the rhino reminds me of a moose.

Note: all five rhino species are endangered to some degree but you can still hunt ranched ones for a few bucks....... ;)

Edit: Gonna be pretty hard to hit the spinal processes when the rhino is facing me dead on. :redface: Take out the shoulder, then take out the heart/lungs.
 
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Right through the skull, between the ears.


From the safe perch in the highest tree around that you just climbed faster than you would have thought possible.
 
The closest I came to "hunting" rhino was when we came across a big cow White that had wandered out of Hwange national park. We were buffalo hunting at the time, and the booking agent was tagging along with one of those bodybuilder style cameras.
He wanted to get some close footage so we moved in, Dan the PH and I carrying rifles and Mark with his video camera. We could see her breath on the near freezing morning, before I put a stop to the nonsense and moved away. We would have probably been better off if it killed us than seeing the inside of a Zim prison. Standing 25 yards away from something big, blind and retarded with a heavy rifle was a different sort of feeling.
 
Take a couple of quick steps to the side and take him in the head/neck. All you can hope is to hit spine, or that the big myopic galoot will just keep running.

I've heard they can run $1K per inch of horn and lots of horns into the mid to high 20's. Tactical repositioning is always the best bet for the non-über-rich.
 
your welcome to try, but Im usually armed ;)

considering their poor eyesight bestest thing would be stop moving, find a tree to hide behind or just simply make a matador move, if I had a gun big enough I would try to shoot between the ears but moving trgt? good luck
 
I doubt if side stepping this guy would save you, they are just too big and that horn sweeps too wide. Besides shooting on the run is hardly conducive to good bullet placement. Spinning him should not be mechanically difficult once the range has decreased to 30' or so, but if your nerve doesn't hold out, you're toast. You'd better have faith in that rifle, your cartridge and the bullet. We saw a large black rhino in the Ngorongoro Crater, but we couldn't get close enough for any excitement . . . or even a decent pic.
 
pharaoh2 said:
Do you think putting one through his snout would disuade him?
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Nope!

Once a critter, particularly a big tenacious critter, has worked himself into attacking something, he can be difficult to turn off. You either have to break something that holds him up, or interrupt the messages coming to and from his brain. That horn would be enough to deflect a solid, and since you only have one chance to get this right, I'd spine him.
 
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