Today, we're going to look at Brenneke's Special Forces Short Magnum Slugs.
Wilhelm Brenneke invented the shotgun slug over a hundred and twenty years ago in Germany.
Yes, the first commercially available shotgun slugs.
Today the company offers a wide spectrum of shotgun slugs based on that original design.
Rather than offer one or two types of slugs they have a wide variety of slugs each
very colorful and each with a very colorful name since the slugs vary in weight,
velocity, and effective range it allows the user to select the right slug for a specific task
It's almost like having a selection of golf clubs
Now one does have to wonder if some of this isn't just a little bit of marketing hype
when you have something so specific as the anti-terror slug.
After all, what is so special about this slug that one of the other slugs couldn't fill this role just as effectively ?
Yes, I am a big cynic, but that's just how I am.
40 pounds of glass ladies and gentlemen.
That had recoil like a three inch magnum.
Let's have a look at the Special Forces Short Magnum
While it may seem like an oxymoron to call them a short magnum.
I mean, it's kind of like saying short tall boy, right?
But the idea is they're giving you magnum like performance using a shotgun that isn't chambered for magnum shells.
In the box is the power to stop almost anything
It shows a big old truck that you could stop and it has a guy that looks like Nutnfancy posing on there.
Now, these are two and three-quarter inch shells and weigh one and a quarter ounces or 34 grams.
And on the back we have a little chart showing the velocity and muzzle energy and notice how much energy it loses as it travels along.
It loses almost ten percent of its speed and twenty percent of its energy after only 25 yards.
And even though it says Brenneke USA these are indeed made in Germany.
Today, we're going to be shooting some Brenneke Special Forces Short Magnum
Yes, Matt V these are TSA operator approved
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We are however going to start out with generation one.
These are an older ones that I've been wearing on my shotgun for a while, so we're going to get rid of this one first.
Same slug though, right ?
Same exact slug.
Okay.
Just without the flashy Ferrari paint.
Yeah, they just kinda on the assembly line (makes spray can noise) sprayed it like.
I'm sure they can charge you an extra dollar for that
Yeah, it is. If it does make it easier to identify them though than just having a black slug is like err, especially after it wears off you can't...
You know the writing...
has worn off so you don't really know what you have anymore.
But it's very identifiable even in Low-light.
First target is a jet ski battery.
Hit it !
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Now there's something we didn't expect.
Now this was the shell that Greg had for a couple years.
Notice it was very accurate the slug stayed together
and the results were very impressive. What we didn't expect was this battery just to explode like that.
It didn't have any acid or anything like that
and it been rinsed out and everything and it took us quite a while to clean up this mess
Now this old Special-Forces slug performed great.
So how will the new ones perform, will they be as good ? Let's find out.
YOU DECIDE !
Are you ready for the robot invasion ? Hard drives !
Hit it !
Wow !
Aw, they came apart ?
Now computer hard drives are a great target. They're very complex
they're very tough and if you watch my old videos where we shot these before with other slugs
you know that a slug will only go in just a couple drives.
You will notice a big difference in this shot though with the external ballistics.
That slug and the wadding did not stay together.
That slug was not as accurate as the first one.
We taped that thing up so it wouldn't fly apart.
Here's your entrance and exit wound.
This one is where the slug actually embedded itself. It turned from red into a...red...red slug
Let me see that.
Wow !
And indented number three.
Dented it enough that it actually dented number four.
Wow.
Little bit off. I don't know...
if this was facing up or what but.
I don't know.
I aimed for center mass.
Yeah. Look, the wadding or something hit right here.
Somehow who knows how that happened?
Okay, brake disc, disc brake. Whatever you want to call it.
Ready ?
Okay, hit it !
Show the side to show how thick that is. Oh, oh, oh I see, you notice the crack on it ?
Yeah, I noticed it when I picked it up.
Okay.
Cracked in the back, hell of a good splatter and a little bit of an indent, but man that did not make it through
Nope, very tough.
So if Jihadies are attacking your home do not shoot their brakes out.
Now once again we see the separation of that gas piston and the main body of the slug.
That definitely is throwing off the accuracy these things.
Now since these are supposed to be able to stop a diesel truck
we were really expecting these slugs to just blast a hole right through this brake rotor
So needless to say we're a little bit disappointed with the performance of this slug at this point
Lead plate with exploding pressurized bottle behind it
Okay, hit it.
Ready ?
Yep.
Wow !
Now the lead plate has been kind of a fixture in our slug testing videos for quite some time.
Now, this is the only slug that we shot of this new batch that actually stayed together like it's supposed to.
Despite that though, the accuracy was still a little bit low, wasn't quite as bad as the other ones
but overall damage wasn't very impressive.
Burrowed in there, but not really any different than any other lead slugs we fired or the steel slugs we fired at this.
Lots of, yeah, it looks like there's some of the red paint
Mhmm.
Almost...
What it didn't do there's hardly even a bulge back here is a little brick residue
Look, look at the dent from the brick though. That's that's from the brick
Where it was mounted up against there.
Yeah, it chipped the brick a little bit.
However, high pressure bottle still intact.
Be careful it might blow up on you in a moment
Let's do a little flashback looking at the Gualandi "Thunderbolt"
Yeah
This thing flew great, and it was pretty accurate. It just blasted right through our lead plate in this shot.
Okay, what application would a law enforcement or military use these for ?
You can clearly see on the box they're designed to stop a motor.
So if you're ever attacked by a minibike Mujahideen
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We're gonna shut him down.
This is the biggest motor we could find and bring out to her all right classified shoot.
Can we start it ? Aw...doesn't run.
I'll get it started here in just a second.
Okay, can it stop a minibike?
Aloha Snackbar.
Hit it !
Oh ho ho ho !
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Ow.
Here's out little shotcup. Burrowed itself in.
And here's our little piece of...
red...
wadding...which is really in there.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah !
If you can get the light in there...
I see a hole all the way through it.
Yeah, it went in that cylinder, and there is light on the other side.
Yeah.
I'll be damned.
I would have thought it would be a bigger hole.
Here we go. Can you get your, uh...
I don't know if your view will get down in there but see that perfectly quarter shaped hole ?
Yeah, we maybe rotate it to get a little more.
Can you, uh, I don't want to be blocking your light.
Get some more light.
Like that ? There we go there.
There we go.
It's hard to see
Now there is pretty substantial damage to this little engine, but it's a far cry from a diesel engine, which this slug is marketed to be able to stop.
Once again, we see the separation of the gas piston and the main body of the slug.
Little thing like that will affect the ballistics quite a bit.
Now we were should maybe 15 to 20 yards away, tops.
You know you move that back another 50 yards, you'll probably miss it completely.
Now all these shots are done with a smoothbore shotgun
which is really what the slug is designed to shoot out of.
Though it will tolerate a rifle barrel.
Now, as a comparison this slug weighs just about the same as the Special Forces slug.
Let's see how this one performs.
Now the dangerous game slug, we'll see how it does.
Same scenario.
This is Iraqi small engine repair.
Yep.
Ready ?
I'm ready.
Boy !
Right off the top !
Tilt it a little ?
Yeah, tilt it back a little bit. Did it go through it ?
I don't think it went all the way through.
Put a hole right in the cylinder though
Now this DGS-12 slug I loaded myself and I loaded it pretty mild.
It maybe was going 1,300 feet per second.
Now in retrospect and I'm sure you're feeling the same way is why didn't we shoot a, you know, just a Foster slug ?
A two and three-quarter inch Foster slug with a velocity of about 1,500 feet per second.
I think it would have far exceeded the damage and accuracy of the Brenneke Special Forces Slug
And sometimes I just kick myself in the pants for not remembering to test something like that.
Sorry about that.
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Now there's something we didn't expect.
Now we definitely know what the capabilities of the Brenneke Special Forces Short Magnum Slug is now.
And we learned that it looks like they have a manufacturing flaw in their new red...
design.
Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this all my friends in the southeast affected by the hurricane, please stay safe guys.
Thanks for watching.