BRENNEKE Special Forces Slug vs ENGINE and MORE! 

The thing about a rotor is it goes through thousands of high temperature heat cycles, typically a good quality steel, so they're tempered and tough as hell. The crack and the dent is pretty impressive considering just how hardened a rotor is.

Working private Security in Arizona I used the Brenneke steel rifled slug over 20 years ago, had to special order them, but always well worth it. Worked very well in my High Standard M-10B 12 Gauge.

when you paint da shell red it go FASTA! WAAAAAAGGGHHH

We have come so far technologically! The internal combustion engine AND the folding table!! Awesome

A box of ammo with Nuttin'Fancy on it? Count me in! I assume each individual round will take 30 minutes to fire.

You have to consider how you are mounting your targets. Like in the brake rotor. The energy from the slug was transferred into rotational motion by the rotor. If that rotor was on a truck, locked down by lug nuts, the result might have been different.

Not surprised it didnt go through the brake rotor. Thats some really hard metal! Not to mention its a used rotor, which is actually stronger than a brand new rotor in most cases because the constant heat cycling actually makes the metal stronger over time. It basically gets heat treated over and over, as long as the rotor wasnt overheated. Either way, thats a pretty damn impressive slug! One thing i like to do when i go camping and bring my guns is i set up pieces of firewood lengthwise so i am shooting at one of the ends, then ill use a burlap bag of rocks and dirt and lay it over the top and then shoot 3" magnum load slugs in an effort to try and split the pieces of firewood. Ill start with a 12-14" diameter log round and chop it in half so i can lay it cut side down on top of another firewood round. Then ill shoot at the piece from about 20-25 yards and almost every time it will pop the piece in half. I have even done it shooting at a solid 10" diameter log round about 12" long. Its a fun way to chop firewood haha. Just have to make sure the wood is dry and seasoned. Another thing that is really fun is to get a 12" diameter log round and use a forsner drill bit to drill a 1.25-1.5" hole thats 6" deep into the middle of it, then mix up some tanerite and fill the hole to about 1/2" from the top. Then melt some candle wax to fill the top to seal it in. Then set it up with the hole facing you and use a rifle that shoots at like 1750fps or faster (i use my AR15, my AR10 or my .300 win ultra mag) and aim for the wax circle. Set it up 150-200 yards out to give you a little bit of a challenge. If you hit it dead on you will get a nice loud boom and it will blow the wood open and most of the time into a few pieces. Its a blast, pun intended.

Something to consider, if you're going to be stacking hard drives to shoot, you should make some sort of steel enclosure for them to screw into, so to keep them all together even after being shot. I wouldn't think that most rounds save for a very few would be able to shear all six mounting screws on the drive themselves.

i tried several of the brenneke slugs years back and found my favorite to be the emerald lightening the recoil was more tolerable and found the to be accurate out of a home defense shotgun the sf magnums were pretty harsh though an had some crazy penetration that said we were using wood for reference instead of metal

A brake Rotor is much harder than an engine block, would love to see a running engine shot with one of these. Especially if the throttle pedal was pinned to the floor. :-)

Aloha snackbar!

Thank you for disposing of the hard drives that contain my TSA spec communicational email arrays. Much appreciate. You should charge for this disposal service

The anti clown slug is probably quite popular at the moment as there seems to be a plague of clowns.

the hurricane has wrecked my beach, but the house is good. flagler beach.. really cool visuals of what nature can do in a few hours

watching the table fall over makes these videos great... it just never gets old.

Enjoyed this video a lot. Great info and comparisons. Keep havin' fun. Learned a lot.

You should use some sort of steel wire when securing multiples items together like HDD's. Brake cable, piano wire, old guitar strings or shark fishing wire would be solid options!

It's a rotor. Disc brakes have caliper, pads, rotor. Great vid. I love the different slugs you guys use.

Brenneke slugs are the loading for the old Activ brand slugs. Those things were a beast and I think the Brenneke Corp is trying to make theirs as powerful as the old Activ loads. I doubt if they came even close. I shot boxes 2 3/4" Magnum Activ shells and those things were no joke. Magnum refers to the powder load and not the shell length. I reloaded my empties, and they were pushing dram equivalents not found in 12ga shells (4 dram loads -- equivalent to 10ga). Those all plastic shells were the toughest I have ever reloaded. Otherwise, high brass - low brass, whatever -- those cases each hold about the same pressure. Heck, Activ cases were all plastic with a steel disc molded in, yet held up better under reloading than any of the others I used and I could shoot the hottest load my gun (870 Wingmaster) could handle out of them. The brass is for shell extraction and is a holdover from the paper shell days. The gun's chamber holds the pressure, not a thin brass tube at the base. That brass would split well before even a SAAMI spec loading if it had to handle the pressure. The Activ slugs rarely, but maybe one out of ten would fly wonky. The rest were like laser beams. I think the Activ extremely high dram powder loads were rarely but occasionally blowing the super tough plastic shaft off of the slugs. Brenneke corp is probably trying to increase the power while using a weaker plastic shaft than Activ did. That would explain the constant separation and ensuing ballistic problems. As to extra deep penetration -- that would depend more upon slug style and hardness of the lead than speed. Slow with a very heavy hard mass gives higher penetration than faster and soft. You don't want much separation or mushrooming for penetration and the more mass the better. Shotgun like speeds in a 45/70 government with hard cast lead bullets can yield penetration that is almost unbelievable. Look up Garrett Cartridges and examine their performance and testing specs on their superhardcast 45/70 loads.

I liked the "golf club" comparison 😆

Man I love the music from Doom, so nostalgic!

"...And a guy that looks like Nutnfancy posing on the front" Shit had me rolling

I can't wait until you get a chance to test that Evil Clown Destroyer!

Thanks for your videos. It would be interesting if you tested the BHN of the lead in the different slugs fired into the same type target.

Excellent choice on music!

Great video! If you really want to stop a large motor, shoot it in the crankcase, not the cylinders. The cylinders are harder than the crankcase; a .44 magnum will go through a crankcase, but not the cylinders (the cylinder liners are very hard, especially on a diesel engine).

Fyi, the dust and fragments of metal flying out of the battery is mostly LEAD, and yes, not the good kind either... prolly contaminate the ground in the area :P

3:14 there’s usually an chemical reaction that is caused by draining a battery that created spongey lead which is less Dense than normal lead so when you shoot the slug through it, it basically explodes as the loosely packed lead particles get shot in every direction.

Most excellent TSA spec operator slugazines, brah. Much awesomeness

Don't shoot their brakes out. I will add this to chapter 12 of the TSA specazine.

Thank you Sir Brenneke. One amazing dude. Also im pretty sure these are intended to be used at roadblock distances.

Yet another great video. Thanks Jeff!

Watching this I learned that brake discs will provide excellent improvised ballistic armor in a pinch! ;)

This is madness! Hollywood told me a handgun can propel a man through a window. What sorcery is this?

the brenneke super sabot 3 piece slugs made for rifled barrels are kickass. I really liked the ones I had. 2 brass pieces and an aluminum nose cone.

Toafled, love ur stuff. lived in wild remote AK bush & had LOTS of BIG Grizzlies around. Always looking for best bear stopper & your show helps. Thanks!!

A car accident off duty retired me as a LEO two years ago. My last two years on the job I carried a few Brenneke Special Forces slugs in the sidesaddle mounted on my personal shotgun that I put in the patrol vehicle. The truck on the front of the box sold me because I wanted something that could disable a vehicle engine if needed. I like Brenneke slugs and the cheaper Brenneke slugs were accurate when I shot them for practice. Now I know these slugs are a gimmick. I'm glad I didn't learn that on the job. I still have three boxes of this stuff laying around. Mine are at least four years old and they are red. They were not cheap if I remember right. I don't know what I can use it for now other than shoot targets with it.

Hey +TAOFLEDERMAUS, How about doing wax slugs with other materials in them. Like razor blades, screws, tungsten carbide pellets, glass, etc... Great videos btw.

Another great video! I always look forward to your cool videos!

Brake discs are forged steel and heat treated and the block of an engine is cast iron and the heads are usually aluminum these days , I would imagine the slugs or most 12ga slugs for that matter would fracture a cast iron block or alum head , plus it would disable the truck by puncturing a large hole in the radiator . At that range you could just shoot the driver and be done with it.

LOL! "Evil clown destroyer!" I want some of those! Haha!

So fitting to use a remixed song from DOOM to talk about shotgun round with massive power. XD

Love how you have remastered doom songs in the background

I've commented on these on another video. I've killed a lot of deer with the Breneke Rotwiler. That is what they were called in the early to mid 90's. At 50 to 70yrds they were devastating. I could see pink mist in my scope and you could hear that slug whack the deer.

love the phobic commentary

It would be interesting to see one of these videos with a slug vs. a hard drive spinning at its full 5400-7200rpm.

nice splat on the disk brake ROTOR... have you ever looked inside any of the hard drives after shooting them? I'd be curious if the impact was enough to fracture the neodymium magnets inside the drive. Good utility size magnets, make great magnet sticks, I cover them in shrink tube or electrical tape to minimize crumbling and breakage; they're quite brittle.

TNOutdoors9 shot the Black Magic and they were a hardened lead, they were very capable of deep penetration. These appeared to be relatively soft, perhaps designed to break apart so that law enforcement applications do not get that over penetration.

What? you couldn't find a Swift depot to test the truck part out?? The drivers do the destruction bit out on the road everyday, you'd just be speeding up the process ;)

The aloha snackbar got to me man. That was a good one.

Have Brenneke in 410 and DANG they are powerful,straight,consistent..

I rode out the hurricane here in jacksonville ... thx for the shout out...just been dealing with the clean up. love you guys channel

you should take your block of clay and stick some clothes hangers in it. call it your chronometer. maybe shove a watch on the front. or calculator

Love the use of both imperial and metric units.

Couldn't help but notice the Doom II music within a few seconds of watching. For this, you've earned a subscribe. On that topic, I wish someone would make a Doom mod that included Brenneke slugs...

Brenneke Black Magic when hiking in bear country (Alaska). Usually cycle B/magic slug, shot, slug, shot. Carry enough to stop a small army rampaging over aggressive bears :-)

Try the Brenneke Maximum Barrier Penetration slugs next.

hit it! -pow-... wow

Thank you guys for the entertainment

Thank Y'all for Another Awesome Video! And Thank You For Thinking About Us! We Have Family up from Savannah. It took them over 9 hours to make the 4 hour trip. And that's with I-16 flowing one way from Savannah to Macon, Ga. Thanks Again Jeff!

I need some of those clown slugs. A school about a mile away from mine was in lock down for clowns

Another awesome video!! They definitely have cool names for these slugs LOL!

love the idea of shooting multiple items with the slugs keep it up!!!!!!

once again another great video the shooter is my top fav but the way those dumped energy looked pretty good but I may be wrong

omg, the nutn comment. I laughed hard.

Looks like nut'fancy had me falling out of my chair... :)

They don't actually say they'll take out an engine- just penetrate vehicles. Basically they're marketing them based on the fact they can rip apart an aluminum radiator or go through a car door to take out a driver. They put a diesel truck on the box as it's a formidable vehicle/target, but it's not going to go though the block of a Mack truck. And yes, old brake rotors are made to be pretty hard and heavy so they should be a great target, though you might want to bolt it to something bigger/heavier to hold it in place.

Although I'm not sure Brenneke makes them anymore, (or maybe rebadged/weakened them), but the Max Barrier Penetration slugs, (I bought a few boxes years ago, $20/5 slugs), have a hardened alloy core, and def have some horsepower behind 'em bc after shooting a box of those, you seriously feel it. The specs talk about shooting through "Steel truck wheels", no mention of cracking brake rotors though, haha. So I'd be curious to see how they live up to the task?

Short Magnum = Jumbo Shrimp. Evil Clown slug a misnomer as ALL clowns are evil.

"... Guy like nutnfancy on the box." roflmao!

I know car engines are not easy or cheap to come by, but if you could find some to test as targets, that would be super cool. Even cooler if you could setup a radiator in front of them, and then test the penetration into the block.

Love your sense of humor, that ECD looked legit.

2:49 - Lead dust? I don't see no stinking lead dust (peering out from behind full Tyvex and SCBA breather, as the atmosphere turns GREY from lead dust)... Yeah, you guys ROCK IT for toxic waste...not smart.

I love the Doom game music cover. I need to find that!

I've been hunting with Brenneke slugs for years. The ones with the felt are held together with a screw. They never come apart. The best in my opinion.

At 9:56-9:58 you can see a little drop of what i think is lead dripping off, pretty cool.

aloha snackbar, my sides just left lel-osphere

great video... I noticed he was using a red dot on the shotgun.. that is probably why the slugs flew so good..... Its about time you got some sights on your guns.... glad to hear it was tsa spec!!!!! ha haha

I shot two boxes of these one day from my KSG. never again. Thanks for another great video.

The 'Evil Clown Destroyer'... We're gonna need a bunch of those.

Well I mean you could stop a diesel engine with a .22LR if you poke a hole in the radiator, it may take it a min or two but it will cause it to overheat and eventually grind to a halt.

so, i guess batteries are off the target list now?

I just love your chanel... Speachless!

Used to stop aircraft motors when on a ICE Air Bust Crew...They work well.

WOW

it's not cynicism when you recognize marketing drivel for what it is.

Hum, I have had good luck with the old patch of these slugs. I hope they get it back up to spec in the next batch. That battery though went goodbye, ha.

Ahh, ever hear of Winchester Short Mags? I have one in 7mm mag. It isn’t an oxymoron, the shells diameter is wider, magnum also can be a magnum grain load.

couldn't you just take out a truck with a hellfire missiles fired from your attack helicopter?

My Wife calls me “Short Magnum”

Loved the video!!! The doom 2 music made me push the sub button!!!

I really do not think the plastic separating from the slug matters or effects accuracy, it does help seal the inside of the barrel to help push the slug. I think they are designed to fall away. The rifling on the slugs out of a smooth bore barrel are what stabilizes the slug and makes it spin like rifling in a rifled barrel. Do a accuracy test and see if there is difference. I do not know what kind of barrel your using but rifled slugs are meant to be shot out of a regular ( smooth ) shotgun barrel. Foster slugs without rifling are meant for rifled shotgun barrels.

Gregg's hands are quite... meaty. Does he crush things for a living?

When the robot Invasion starts im Pretty sure they gonna have SSD`s...

Also keep in mind you do not necessarily need to penetrate a cylinder wall to render an automobile engine no good. It depends on the type of engine, and what crucial component of the engine is destroyed and if you're trying to a achieve instant destruction of the engine or just cause it to eventually fail to stop forward progress. After all a .22 will put a hole in the radiator or a hose and cause it to eventually overheat and cut out from a over temp motor stop relay signal or cause extreme overheating of the engine from loss of coolant and viscosity of lubricants eventually causing a catastrophic failure in moving internal parts. . Either way both stopping the engine with just a .22. Let's also not forget other critical components such as pulleys and rockers and oil loss. A ruined pulley will throw a belt. Oil loss and destroyed rockers can be achieved by a .22 as well. Most valve covers on the heads of engines are thin tin or aluminum alloy. Oil coiling lines usually thin aluminum or braided rubber. A .22 through the distributor or cap will also make the engine unable to run. We could also discuss the heads being much lighter material than the block. I get the idea is to disable the engine quickly without having to make a lucky shot to hit one of the components but some of the comments here clearly scream many of the viewers have no idea how a automobile engine actually runs.

Did you even check to see where the piston was in the cylinder on the little motor? That would make quite a difference on penetration and trajectory once it hit.

Is the music from Doom2? It really sounds similar!

There marketed to stop a diesel engine, where the hell are you getting this info from? The picture on the box?

Brenneke is my favorite brand for bear protection /harvesting. I use the Black Magic and Alaska F&G uses the Classic Magnum for rogue Moose or Bear. Years ago I used the Rotweiller( 2 3/4") for bear.

Two things, one, it's a brake rotor afaik, and two, they're made out of much stouter and harder metal than an engine block. Find a cast iron 12v cummins or similar, and hit it with another few slugs to see what happens. Aim for the crank case where the metal would be thinner, or side on into the crank shaft or where a main bearing might be. You can stop an engine with a few shots, either from losing vital fluids, fragmentation getting into the combustion chamber, broken crank, etc..