Remington .22 rimfire ammo

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I hate to say it but I've had no luck with Remington golden bulk pack rimfire ammo. I have to hammer it out of my revolver's and it will not chamber in my new 15-22. I have the remaining ammo marked bolt action rifle only. I seem to have better luck with Winchester and Federal rimfire ammo, seem's to work in all my rimfire's. Maybe a bad batch from Remington, was bought at Waly world.
 
I like what they call the "Target" ammo which is in 100 packs. About as cheap as any and I have found to be reliable in my K22 and Ruger MkII. Is sub-sonic. Least favorite is a brick of Blaser I bought on the cheap at a show. Bad stuff.
 
I won't buy any more Remington .22 rimfire --- it's the dirtiest, least reliable of any plinking grade ammo, in my experience. The Federal 550 bulk pack from WalMart is clean, accurate, reliable (I've had the odd exception, but it's rare), and you can't beat the price, when you can find it...
 
I gave my son a .22 conversion kit for his AR, came with 2 25rd mags. Went through a box of 550 bulk Remington ammo without a single problem.
 
jkc said:
I won't buy any more Remington .22 rimfire --- it's the dirtiest, least reliable of any plinking grade ammo, in my experience. The Federal 550 bulk pack from WalMart is clean, accurate, reliable (I've had the odd exception, but it's rare), and you can't beat the price, when you can find it...
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+1; Remington quality control on their .22LR has gone down the tube. There are numerous posts on this board and others about this.
 
I can only speak for the Remington Target standard velocity. In our indoor bullseye club, out of a couple dozen average to high grade bullseye guns, it is accurate, but totally unreliable. We have experienced up to 15% misfires out of a case of ammo. We quit using it for several years, then tried it again last year, and no change. Regardless of the gun being a Ruger are a Pardini, or a Hammerlii, a misfire averaging nearly every 5 round clip. We won't trust it.
 
Worst is the Remington 'Thunderbolt' promo ammo. I had a brick that the bullets were so oversized that they would not chamber in an old, worn-out .22 single shot rifle, let alone anything else. Never mic'ed them, but they had to be almost .230.
 
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FWIW, 17 years ago Remington Thunderbolts were the most consistent and accurate promo ammo I tested. I bought thousands. A year+ ago Rem Tbolts and Goldens were abysmal-huge numbers of misfires , squibs, overly loud rounds, cartridges without powder or primer etc.. Sometime last year a QC and tooling revamp supposedly occurred on the .22 GB production line. I fired 2 bulkpacks of a recent production lot with only a couple of misfires.....which fired on a second strike. The previous QC problems were disturbing but current Remington production may merit a second look.
 
I am starting to wonder if Remington even makes the .22 ammo they market. I was reading in American Rifleman this morning their product recall on .17 HMR, and they use the phrase..."Remington has been notified by its supplier of 17 HMR ammunition...". If someone is supplying it to them, then they are not making it, probably same with the .22 ammo. I suspect China is involved in this.
 
I have used the Remington Golden Bullet 22 LR HV HP bulk pack ammo in my Jarvis 22 conversion unit for a 1911 and an Advantage ARms 22 conversion unit for the Glock 17. It has been very reliable in terms of function except for ca 2% ignition failures which usually ignite with a second strike. I would not use it for serious matches but for the price it is excellet ammo in my opinion.
I found Remington Thunderbolt to be very reliable and surprisingly accurate with few ignition failures but it leaded the barrel when I fired ca 100 rounds in rapid succession. If I allowed the barrel to cool after firing 20 to 30 rounds it would fire a brick without leading. I ceased using it and switched to the Remington Golden.
 
I find the Remington Golden Bullet the best for my ACE .22 conversion unit for the .45 1911s. Most ammo will foul the floating chamber in short order until it fails to "float." I can shoot the conversion for a long time with the Golden Bullets with a bare minimum of fouling. On the downside, there are some failures to fire. I suspect the priming is not properly deposited in the periphery of the rim; re-orienting the round the in the chamber usually allows it to fire. This annoying but not critical for practice. I sure would not use it for any kind of protective piece.
 
I had one brick of thunderbolts and never again. Totally unreliable in my Buckmaster. Same with my CA AR-7, and my buddy's Henry AR-7. Many fail to fire, fail to eject, stuck in chamber.
 
I agree that the Remington Thunderbolt is about the worst .22 LR ammo out there! I started using the Winchester Wildcats because of the horrible performance of the Remington stuff about 10 years ago. In the past few months I have found that now the Wildcats are starting to go down hill, so I have switched over to Federal "Champion" ammo. I can't comment on the Federal ammo as of yet because I want to shoot out all the Wildcats first. I do have a few shooting buddy's that use the Federal Champions and they say it works very well. I guess I shall find out soon.

On another note:
I just recently purchased a few cases of Remington "Gun Club" #8 shot 12 Ga. shotshells for use in informal trap shoots. I opened the last case a few weeks ago and I saw something very strange. The shotshell boxes were marked correctly, however all the hulls were black in color. As far as I know, the ONLY Remington 12 Ga. shotshells that I have ever seen in black indicate steel shot. I will shoot these through a vintage Browning Superposed, & I certainly do not want to put steel through that gun in which the barrel is not rated for steel shot. I pried a shell open and the shot inside was indeed lead, but a quick call to Remington verified my thoughts that someone had grabbed the wrong color hulls when they manufactured this ammo. Not that this is the end of the world, but just another sign that says Remington's QC is slipping fast.

I now try and shy away from Remington unless that is the only thing available in the loading I am looking for.

Chief38
 
RE: "I am starting to wonder if Remington even makes the .22 ammo they market. "
In my previous post, I "bragged" on the .22 Target in spite of comments on and off the web about duds. Well, after going thru several 100-packs of this, I found ONE dud round. Maybe I am the lucky one, but that's my experience. For what it's worth, this ammo says "made in USA", and specifically Arkansas. (No, I ain't about to argue that point! :-) )
 
cjw3 said:
+1; Remington quality control on their .22LR has gone down the tube. There are numerous posts on this board and others about this.
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Yep. Of the many, many thousands of rounds of .22 rimfire I've shot over the past 40+ years, I've had more misfires with Remington than with all other brands combined. Lack of QC with their rimfire ammo is not a new phenomenon. FWIW, I've had the best luck with various CCI loads, in handguns and rifles, but Federal is good, too.
 
Got to agree with you on CCI's, never had a problem with any of their .22s. Got a brick of Fiocchi the last time out to the range and that performed real well also.

Hadn't used Remintons since the '60s. Totally supprised by how bad the Thunderbolts were. Not gonna happen again. Even though they were cheaper, by the time you figure how many actually worked. They cost more than the CCIs or Fiocchis.
 
After finally getting rid of the Remington bulk pack stuff, I gave them the benefit of the doubt and bought some of their Subsonic loads....same old problems, misfires and inconsistency. Sorry, there's too much good ammo out there to waste time and money on such as that.

As some have said, I think over the years CCI has been consistently the best .22 ammo I have ever used, with Federal and Winchester running a close second.

The only foreign made I have used has been Aguila match ammunition of various types. Aside from the "burning wire" smell, it has been accurate and consistent...maybe not as clean burning as most of our domestic makes, but still good ammunition.
 
Some of the Remington has been ok for me, but stay away from the Thunderbolt. I couldn't even tell if the bullet made it out of the barrel a couple of times in a revolver. I had to open the cylinder, dump everything out, and look down the barrel. That's how bad that stuff was, at least last year. One shot would sound normal, the next, like it was a squib.

If I find one of the boxes of the Thunderbold, I was using, and it has a lot number on it, I will edit this post, and include that information.
 
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