Brenneke GmbH is a German manufacturer of

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and

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s, based in

Langenhagen Langenhagen (; Eastphalian: ''Langenhogen'') is a town in the Hanover district of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany. Overview Lower Saxony Lower Saxony is a States of Germany, German state (') in Northern Germany, northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ' of the Germany, Federal Re ...

. The company was founded by

Wilhelm Brenneke Wilhelm Brenneke was a German inventor of smallarms ammunition, including the Brenneke shotgun slug. He was born in 1865 in Hanover and died in 1951, from natural causes. The Brenneke company remains in his family's hands and is still successfu ...

in 1895 and is currently owned and run by his great-grandson, Dr. Peter Mank. Brenneke makes shotgun shells for target shooting and hunting, special slugs for law enforcement, and hunting rounds as well as projectiles for

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. Its best-known products are the Brenneke slug for

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s and a line of rifle

Langenhagen standard

In 1990 under the sponsorship of Brenneke, the Langenhagen standard () was created. Essentially it means that for hunting, the deviation of the

shotgun slug A shotgun slug is a heavy projectile (a slug) made of lead, copper, or other material and fired from a shotgun. Slugs are designed for hunting large game, and other uses, particularly in areas near human population where their short range and slo ...

must not on a distance of exceed a circle with diameter. On a

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, the total deviation of all three barrels must not exceed a circle of diameter.

Rifle bullets

All Brenneke rifle bullets have a so-called ''

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-tail'' (), a special form of boat-tail. The best-known are * TIG (), mainly a fragmentation bullet with a soft core for smaller game, developed in 1917-1927. * TUG (), mainly a deformation bullet with a hard core for bigger game, developed 1935. From 1935 to 2003, Brenneke concentrated on improving the Brenneke slug. since 2003, the firm developed the * TOG () (2003), a deformation-bullet for big game * TAG () (2007), a lead-free deformation bullet. Lead-free versions of TIG and TUG are built as "TIG nature" and "TUG nature".

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. In February 2009, Brenneke declared it saw ID-Classic and UNI-classic as

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and launched a lawsuit against RUAG Amotec. Brenneke markets the bullets, as well as ammunition, from a different manufacturer under its own name now.

Calibers

developed some rifle cartridges. Normally, those have a brass length of rimless resp. {{convert, 65, mm, in flanged for

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s and other

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-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

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. Those are: *

7×64mm The 7×64mm (also unofficially known as the 7×64mm Brenneke, though its designer's name was never officially added as a part of the cartridge name) is a rimless bottlenecked centerfire cartridge developed for hunting. As is customary in Euro ...

/ 7x65mm R (1917–1927) *

8×64mm S The 8×64mm S (also unofficially known as the 8×64mm S Brenneke) (the S means it is intended for 8.2 mm (.323 in) groove diameter bullets) is a rimless bottlenecked centerfire cartridge developed as a military service round for the Germa ...

(1912) / 8x65mm RS *

9.3×64mm Brenneke The 9.3×64mm Brenneke (designated as the 9,3 x 64 Brenneke by the C.I.P.) is a rimless bottlenecked centerfire rifle cartridge designed in 1927 by German gunmaker Wilhelm Brenneke. It is suitable for hunting medium to large game animals in A ...

(1927)

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References

Manufacturing companies established in 1895 Ammunition manufacturers Manufacturing companies of Germany Companies based in Lower Saxony 1895 establishments in Germany