Brenneke
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| GmbH & Co. KG (Companies register: Hannover local court, no.: HRB 9000) | |
| Founded | 1895 |
| Founder | Wilhelm Brenneke |
| Headquarters | Langenhagen, Lower Saxony, Germany |
Key people | Dr. Peter Mank, Managing Director and owner; Agnes Mank († 25 october 2010), managing director[1] |
| Products | Ammunition for hunting, marksmanship and law enforcement; Bullets for Handloading |
| Subsidiaries | Brenneke of America, L.P. in Clinton, Iowa, United States[2] |
| Website |
brenneke.com (International) brennekeusa.com (Brenneke of America) |
Brenneke GmbH is a German manufacturer of ammunition and bullets, based in Langenhagen, Lower Saxony.
The company was founded by Wilhelm Brenneke in 1895 and is currently owned and run by his great-grandson,[3] Dr. Peter Mank.
Brenneke makes shotgun shells for target shooting and hunting, special slugs for law enforcement,[4] and hunting rounds as well as projectiles for handloading. Its best-known products are the Brenneke slug for shotguns and a line of rifle bullets.
Langenhagen standard
In 1990[5] under the sponsorship of Brenneke, the Langenhagen standard (German: Langenhagener Norm) was created. Essentially it means that for hunting, the deviation of the shotgun slug must not on a distance of 50 metres (55 yd) exceed a circle with 10 centimetres (3.9 in) diameter. On a drilling, the total deviation of all three barrels must not exceed a circle of 15 centimetres (5.9 in) diameter.[6]
Rifle bullets
All Brenneke rifle bullets have a so-called torpedo-tail (German: Torpedo-Heck), a special form of boat-tail.
The best-known are
- TIG (German: Torpedo Ideal Geschoß), mainly a fragmentation bullet with a soft core for smaller game, developed in 1917-1927.[7]
- TUG (German: Torpedo Universal-Geschoß), mainly a deformation bullet with a hard core for bigger game, developed 1935.[8]
From 1935 to 2003, Brenneke concentrated on improving the Brenneke slug.[9] since 2003, the firm developed the
- TOG (German: Torpedo Optimal-Geschoß) (2003), a deformation-bullet for big game[10]
- TAG (German: Torpedo Alternativ-Geschoß) (2007), a lead-free deformation bullet.[11]
Lead-free versions of TIG and TUG are built as "TIG nature"[12] and "TUG nature".[13]
Brenneke TIG and TUG against RWS ID and UNI
From 1972 until 2006, those were manufactured and developed in license by RWS; in 2006, the license was not renewed, and RWS began marketing the bullets as ID-Classic resp. UNI-Classic from 1 July 2006 onward.[14] In February 2009, Brenneke declared it saw ID-Classic and UNI-classic as counterfeit consumer goods and launched a lawsuit against RUAG Amotec.[15]
Brenneke markets the bullets, as well as ammunition, from a different manufacturer under its own name now.
Calibers
Wilhelm Brenneke developed some rifle cartridges. Normally, those have a brass length of 64 millimetres (2.5 in) rimless resp. 65 millimetres (2.6 in) flanged for combination guns and other break-action-rifles that are still popular with European hunters. Those calibers are in exclusive civil use; thus, they are tremendously popular in countries that ban military calibers like France. Those are:[9]
- 7×64mm / 7x65mm R (1917–1927)
- 8×64mm S (1912) / 8x65mm RS
- 9.3×64mm Brenneke (1927) / 9.3x65mm R Brenneke (1930)
External links
References
- ↑ http://www.brenneke-munition.de/cms/frauagnesmanknachruf.html (German)
- ↑ Contact
- ↑ http://www.brenneke-munition.de/cms/fileadmin/user_upload/Dokumente/07_01_Jaegernachrichten.pdf (German)
- ↑ Products
- ↑ http://www.brenneke-munition.de/cms/geschichte.html?&L=0 (German)
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2010-12-20. (German)
- ↑ TIG
- ↑ TUG
- 1 2 History
- ↑ TOG
- ↑ TAG
- ↑ TIG nature
- ↑ TUG nature
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2010-12-20. (German)
- ↑ http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article3288425/Am-deutschen-Patronenmarkt-tobt-ein-Kleinkrieg.html (German)