brenneke gmbh & co. kg . type 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 . contents 1 langenhagen standard 2 rifle bullets 2.1 brenneke tig and tug against rws id and uni 3 calibers 4 external links 5 references langenhagen standard edit 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 edit 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 gescho mainly a fragmentation bullet with a soft core for smaller game developed in 1917 1927 . 7 tug german torpedo universal gescho 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 gescho 2003 a deformation bullet for big game 10 tag german torpedo alternativ gescho 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 edit 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 edit 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 9.3 x65mm r brenneke 1930 external links edit company history references edit 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 http www.brenneke munition.de cms index.php id 100 & l 0 german tig tug a b history tog tag tig nature tug nature http www.st hubertus.at index.php id 2500 % 2c5301 % 2c % 2c german http www.welt.de wirtschaft article3288425 am deutschen patronenmarkt tobt ein kleinkrieg.html german retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title brenneke & oldid 719795867 categories companies established in 1895ammunition manufacturersmanufacturing companies of germanyhidden categories articles with german language external linksarticles containing german language text navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 11 may 2016 at 20 43 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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