Rhino

[New_Pal]

Is there a company called "Rhino" that manufactures ammunition.??

is there such thing as a .38 blue tipped Rhino bullet.??

 

[DirtyOldSix]

Rhino Bullets

I hunt with Rhino bullets, its called the solid Shank bonded core bullets and work very well. Its South African.

http://www.rhinobullets.co.za/

 

[Silverback]

Google is your friend, here is some info I found:

Dr. Martin Fackler stated in article (Wound Ballistics Review, 3(1)) 1997 that the Rhino/Razor ammo was pulled from the market because it did not meet SAAMI pressure standards.

Anyhoo, if memory serves, Rhino shipped less than fifty rounds of 9mm ammo for evaluation.
The intial group fired was somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 inches in diameter. And the velocity of that first bunch varied by a couple of hundred feet-per-second.
Needless to say, the evaluators weren't very impressed.

I have six rounds of Rhino (not black rhino) in 9MM. They are constructed like a magsafe: hollow copper jacket with BB's and epoxy to fill the cavity. The cavity is really wide, and looks like they would cause feed problems in some guns. I never fired any of them, mainly because they are too hot, too much pressure.

 

[gushulak]

According to Marshall and Sanow, the Rhino ammo was introduced in the mid 1990's, but all samples submitted showed highly erratic chamber pressures in all calibers. It was loaded as high velocity fragmentation type loads. Due to the erratic pressures, it was never SAAMI certified and most didn't hit the market place. There may be some prototypes loads or early production loads out there available, but due to the shoddy nature of the company that produced them I would likely not fire any of them for safety reasons. The Rhino bullets produced in SA are a different company. The american Rhino has long since gone under.

 

[Snoepie]

If you know where I can get Rhino bullets in Canada, please let me know - I hunted with nothing else in South Africa, but switched to Nosler Partitions in Canada due to unavailability of Rhino's here.