Brenneke Buckshot

[Blain]

Just curious if anyone has heard anything about this type of buckshot? It is supposed to be the hardest buckshot on the market (or that is, until heavi shot buck was introduced) with 5% animity added to the lead to harden it + copper plating! I was able to find it real cheap for $75 for 200 rounds, so I ordered a case. If anyone has any experience with this brand of buckshot, it would be most appreciated.

Who knows, it may replaced my duty/combat load brand of buckshot currently held by Winchester's XX copperplated 12 pellet 00. It sure is a lot cheaper than Winchester's to buy, less than half the price for a case!

 

[NIGHTWATCH]

The way I see it, you cant go wrong with Brenneke. Id like to know how they handle when you get to shootem.

 

[Dave McCracken]

New to me, how about doing a T&E? Thanks...

 

[priv8ter]

Ummmm...

I suppose I could get slammed here for saying this, but here goes.

At typical home-defence type ranges, does it really matter if you have the 'hardest' shot? I mean, I've done enough testing and patterning with 2 3/4" buck in my 20ga to know that if I do my job inside of 15 yards, someone is going to be having a bad day.

I would say, that for that price you shoot some up.

If it seems to cycle okay in your gun, and you don't have any misfires to make you question the reliability, then start using it!

But, like the other folks, I don't yet have any experience with these shotshells, but now I'll have to see if they have them in 20ga for that price.

 

[Blain]

At typical home-defence type ranges, does it really matter if you have the 'hardest' shot?

Who said I was going to use them for home defense? This here is a combat load!

 

[priv8ter]

Quite correct

Sorry about that...you did say duty/combat...which my sleep deprived brain interpreted as 'home defense'.

 

[Sir Galahad]

Blain, what do you do for a living? Are you a police officer?

 

[Blain]

I work on saving the Republic.

 

[Sir Galahad]

Saving it from what? I ask because you mentioned a "duty load". Color me confused, but, see, if you were looking for a duty/combat load you had to buy yourself, I'd figure you to be a police officer or maybe even a mercenary. Though, a police officer might not find copper-plated and hardened buck to be such a good idea if it's ricocheting all over the place in a crowded area and killing civilians. What, specifically, do you do for a living, if I may ask? I'm a repairman, so I'm not a firearms expert by any stretch, but I do know a few things. Targets cannot tell the difference between hardened buck and regular buck and once you patterned it to see if there was a difference, I don't know, I'd practice with just McBuckshot and save the money for buying ammo I planned to stash away.

 

[mrt]

sounds like someone I read about...

are you the Blain from Hard Core Talk? that made this post -
http://www.hardcoretalk.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=10;t=000740

 

[HS/LD]

Wow!

Blain was that you??

Oh My!

HS/LD

 

[45Badger]

It's so nice to be on the high road....

HCT sounds full of guys with fast red cars, big guns, big mouths. My wife has a theory about that type.....

Yikes!

 

[Blain]

My wife has a theory about that type.....

ROFLMAO!!!!!

 

[Dave McCracken]

Let's keep things on the High Road, folks.

A note...

Otto Brenneke invented a slug with an attached base wad to provide obturation that greatly improved accuracy standards for slugs in Europe, pre WWII. The things also penetrated better, important with game like boar, oft hunted there with 16 gauge SxS guns or the combos called Drillings.

Introduced here in the 30s, the slugs led to the revolution in shotgun single projectile performance still in progress.

However, the name Brenneke was first used on slugs of that type,then expanded to all non Forster style slugs using an attached base wad. The KO Brenneke with a non attached wad is one of these. Now,it seems to be used for anything made by Dynamit Nobel, the makers of the Rottweil stuff.

Be that as it may, the real test of this buck will be how it shoots. Hope to see some info soon on this.

 

[Badger Arms]

My 'duty' load was a 2 3/4" hunting packed with steel "T" shot. It was a real pain because we couldn't use the lead shot on geese and we were limited to 2 3/4" in the issue Remington 870 Riot shotguns we had. We were also limited to cylinder bores. Later, they bought us slug barrels with rifled sights and modified choke bores. The modified choke was a great improvement but the rifled sights were unsuitable for wing shots. Can anybody guess what my duty was? For those of you who have heard me talk about it, please refrain from answering.

 

[Blain]

Well, just got an e-mail from the company with them stating that they do not ship ammo to MA and that my order was canceled.....sorry.

 

[stevelyn]

If Brenneke slugs are any indication, the buck loads should be outstanding. Our department uses the Brenneke slug as issue ammo due to our large population of brown furry beasts.