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I should have mentioned this earlier: The bullet in the photo is a 340gr Solid Shank Rhino recovered from a giraffe shot with a .375 H&H from about 60 yards.
Despite its 2x calibre expansion it penetrated the 3/4" thick skin, the scapula, passed through a rib, severed the pulmonary artery above the heart, penetrated an opposite rib, penetrated the opposite scapula and stopped against the skin. It retained 99% weight.
You just gotta love those homogeneous copper bullets. A solid with an expanding nose.
Yes, the whole shank is solid copper with the cup in the front end into which the lead is fused (bonded). I witnessed that shot from the .375 H&H at 60 yards and I personally skinned and opened the giraffe and followed the bullet's path and removed it.
For a 2x calibre expansion and retaining 99% weight through all that skin and bone as it did I was impressed.
Peregrines do that with 1.5x round mushroom expansion but it has no lead.
Is that Rhino bullet a bonded bullet? Nice. Hornady claim's 90%+ weight retention with their bonded bullet. Many years ago I developed a load for my 7mm mag I really liked, only bullet other than Hornady I used on game. Speer Hot Core. Shot it out of my 7mm mag but had the chamber reamed so I could seat that 160gr bullet just off the lands with the base of the bullet at the bottom of the neck, but not past. I shot that bullet into newspaper and at 100 yds, the bullet I got back retained 87% of it's weight. More impressive was that the core remained tight in the jacket and welded to the brass petals!
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