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"On Thursday, 12 July 2007 on a hunt in the Pongola area, I took a 'well placed' shot at a Bluewildebeest cow that was standing about 100 yards away in the shade of a tree, not knowing at that stage that the target animal's shoulder was actually right behind a ± 2½" thick tree branch.
Due to the shade it was impossible to see the dark brown branch against the almost black background of the Bluewildebeest.
When the shot rang out the animal took off in the same direction as the rest of the herd.
It was only on close inspection that I realised that the bullet went right through the branch and then thought here I have a wounded Bluewildebeest to track down and hopefully finish off.
However, after quite a long search and tracking we found the dead Bluewildebeest cow.
The most amazing part of it all was that the GSCHV 150gr 30-06 bullet still completely penetrated and exited the animal as if there were not a single obstacle in front of the animal's shoulder.
This was my first hunt with GSCHV bullets, but definitely not my last!"
Hendrik von Metzinger - 14 July 2007.

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GSCHV 150gr 30-06 bullet

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Originally posted by Gecko:
Recently had an incident with monolithic bullets used by a hunter in his 30-06 resulting in a full day's follow up on a B/Wbeest bull he shot.

The first shot was taken at 180 yards and he hit the B/W high on the shoulder - too high and not reaching any of the vitals.
Bull was spotted three hours later in the same herd by only a bloodspot on his shoulder.

Second shot fired from about 100 yards - this time a bit lower on the body, but further back behind the shoulder.
Lung blood was found later and the B/W was still going strongly.
After another 4 hours' tracking the B/W was found standing under a tree in the shade.
He was finally killed with a frontal brain shot from a distance of 30 yards.

All three the 130gr Impala bullets whistled through the B/W - the first with very little damage, the second I felt should have killed the animal, but didn't and the third exited through the neck with vertebrae damaged after it went through the brain.

Apparently these bullets don't mushroom at all and if the hunter can't shoot securely on the spot to reach the vitals, he should expect to have extremely long follow ups, like in this case, or alternatively lose the wounded animals.

Totally unexeptable bullet performance, especially with the second shot that was a definite lunger who also did very little damage!

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Originally posted by collani:
The Impala bullets are developed from Kobus du Plessy and are manufactured in RSA.

Does anyone have good experiences with those bullets!

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