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 |
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Key people
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Dr. Peter Mank, Managing Director and owner; Agnes Mank († 25 october 2010), managing director |
| Products | Ammunition for hunting, marksmanship and law enforcement; Bullets for Handloading |
| Subsidiaries | Brenneke of America, L.P. in Clinton, Iowa, United States |
| 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, 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 handloading. Its best-known products are the Brenneke slug for shotguns and a line of rifle bullets.
In 1990 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.
All Brenneke rifle bullets have a so-called torpedo-tail (German: Torpedo-Heck), a special form of boat-tail.
The best-known are
From 1935 to 2003, Brenneke concentrated on improving the Brenneke slug. since 2003, the firm developed the
Lead-free versions of TIG and TUG are built as "TIG nature" and "TUG nature".
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 counterfeit consumer goods and launched a lawsuit against RUAG Amotec.
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