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RE: Brenneke slugs
Been using then for along time and I'm not switching,my Berreta loves them.
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Well here are my thoughts, the more holes you put in to something the better chance for more blood to come out.
Yeah I see what you mean by better controlled expansion but I have had some trouble with these high dollar slugs not exiting the deer and it did run off leaving NO blood trail... shot a buck with a Rem copper solid and it fragmented which correct me if im wrong but that is no weight retention in my opinion. Plus I really hurt when im paying 15 dollars a box for them... now I think its more like 20 dollars!!! nearly 5 dollars a shot and it will only get worse so I said enough is enough... got rid of that damn rifled barrel and went and got a smooth bore... heck I even have better groups then I did with my hastings barrel and super dupper sexy has heck slugs... tried the hornady sst, the Winchesters line up, them Rem coptpers, the light fields (would like to try lights in a smooth bore because I think they have something here) these bennekes are still a little more money then I want to spend but they group well and when they put 2 big holes in a deer i'm pretty sure I will at least have a good heavy blood trail to follow and if so a dead deer at the end of it. If I drop um.... even better! I think if great ballistics is what ur after then a high powered rifle is the only true way to get it and it wont event cost you as much to shoot better bullets... these marketing companies have a lot of us believing we need to speed money on these sexy slug bullets... I say good marketing on their part at least. |
Wow, you sure found an old thread, but it's one of my favorite subjects. I grew up hunting in New Jersey back before slugs were allowed. Seeing the difference between buckshot and slugs I've never looked back except for the buckshot in my home defense gun. I love using full bore sized slugs, whether they are Brenneke or foster slugs. My gun like Winchester rifled slugs best but if the Brennekes shot the best I'd use them instead. In either case you get huge holes and lots of blood. My gun has no problem hitting a deer at 125 yards with them, which is good enough for me.
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Originally Posted by Paul L Mohr
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I would like to agree with on this one Matt, but I can't. I used the brenneke gold mags last year and was not overly impressed. I mean sure it killed the deer but I have seen better performance.
All it did was punch a quarter sized hole right through the deer. Bullet performance and ballistics are not very impressive compared to a better designed bullet. Not that brenneke doesn't make a quality product, because they do. I just personally think a better designed bullet like a controlled expansion XTP type bullet works better on game. Just my opinion though and nothing more. If I were shooting a smoothbore I might look into some of the brenneke rounds. But my smoothbore really likes Winchester rifled slugs, so I don't see the point in changing right now. To be honest though they will pretty much all kill deer if you hit them in the front somewhere;). Paul |
Originally Posted by Centaur 1
(Post 3522596)
Wow, you sure found an old thread, but it's one of my favorite subjects. I grew up hunting in New Jersey back before slugs were allowed. Seeing the difference between buckshot and slugs I've never looked back except for the buckshot in my home defense gun. I love using full bore sized slugs, whether they are Brenneke or foster slugs. My gun like Winchester rifled slugs best but if the Brennekes shot the best I'd use them instead. In either case you get huge holes and lots of blood. My gun has no problem hitting a deer at 125 yards with them, which is good enough for me.
Yeah sorry hope I didn't come across as to aggressive... I just get a little heated because ive tried them and didn't get much performance when compared to cost... yeah I was searching for brenneke threads once again since our season is getting ready to start and I stumbled on to this thread. They are a big slug that shoots fairly accurate out my smooth boar/rifled choke tube rem 11-87. oz and a quarter is a ton of kinetic energy hitting something! |
for smoothbores the brennekes and the other foster type slugs are fine, but for rifled barrels and to reach out and touch a deer sabot slugs are they way to go, which ones to use is up to what your gun likes
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Originally Posted by BOWHUNTERCOP
(Post 3526546)
for smoothbores the brennekes and the other foster type slugs are fine, but for rifled barrels and to reach out and touch a deer sabot slugs are they way to go, which ones to use is up to what your gun likes
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This is what a Brenneky short field mag did to this nice bodied 8 pointer yesterday evening. Short 4 times hit him 3 on a dead sprint. I he went about 50 yds up a hill and down he went at the top. Blood trail was very easy to see.
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