My experience with bulk Remington golden bullets with my 15 22

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Hi all, just wanted to give my input on remington golden bullet bulk ammo that i had yesterday. It fired with no ftf, but on last round fired it wouldnt hold bolt open if I put more then 12 rounds in my 25 round magazine. The bolt would hold open if I put less then 12 in it. I tested this 5 times with golden bullets.Funny thing is is with the same magazine I loaded 25 rounds my gun with cci mini mags and the bolt held open after last shot fired 5 times in a row. I know every gun is different with ammo but can anyone explain this mystery, why one ammo holds open the bolt and another kind doesn't? Happy shooting everyone 😎👍
 
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Tjb1975 said:
Hi all, just wanted to give my input on remington golden bullet bulk ammo that i had yesterday. It fired with no ftf, but on last round fired it wouldnt hold bolt open if I put more then 12 rounds in my 25 round magazine. The bolt would hold open if I put less then 12 in it. I tested this 5 times with golden bullets.Funny thing is is with the same magazine I loaded 25 rounds my gun with cci mini mags and the bolt held open after last shot fired 5 times in a row. I know every gun is different with ammo but can anyone explain this mystery, why one ammo holds open the bolt and another kind doesn't? Happy shooting everyone 😎👍
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Do you have another magazine to test.

When I got mine a year ago I functioned with Golden Bullets from a 1400 round bucket and everything else I fed it except Federal blue box Champion ammo.

My 22lr stash is now only CCI mini mags and CCI Tactical that I bought when Walmart had them for $6.00/100

I put an Exact Edge extractor in the 15-22 even though I didn't encounter any issues with the factory one.

IMO,a great rifle at a very good price when on special a Academy.
 
It is a great gun! Tested it with 3 different magazines. Same results as stated above. Left me scratching my head lol
 
MY GUESS

It's something to do with the gold faerie dust that gets on your hands just from holding them, IMO it can't be doing the internals any good either also my opinion. My 15-22 after app 2,000 rounds wouldn't eject any unfired rounds. Even after what looked like a good thorough cleaning it still happened. The fix was to simply strip the bolt & clean that, it was gummed up with the gold dust. After that discovery, no issues. Better/cleaner ammo & not over oiling let me get more bullets downrange before a bolt strip was needed. My Guess/final answer. Good luck.
 
Agreed, my hands are dirty after just loading one clip. Instead of golden bullets should be lead bullets. It's like shooting thunderbolts lol
 
If the round doesn't have the power to open the bolt completely then it won't lock open. The bolt is probably short stroking with the crummy golden Bullets. I won't shoot them anymore. Accuracy is terrible with them.
 
The OP stated the bolt would lock open if he loaded his 25-round magazine with less than 12 rounds. It would not lock open on last round (using same magazine) if he loaded it with 12 or more rounds.
 
I have been using that ammo, from the bucket, on my third bucket, with 6 magazines and only thing I have found it's dirty ammo.
I haven't had any failures from the bolt not locking on the last rounds.
So far 3 thousands rounds has been fired with 6 mag.
I also clean my magazines after firing 300 rounds, like I said that ammo is dirty.
Here is my yesterday shoot.


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Mine is hit and miss with a Remington Golden Bullets. I run CCI, Winchester, Aquila ok and my S&W M&P .22 LR Compact pistol runs everything.
Just the nature of .22 LR.
 
I haven't fired my 15-22 in a few months. I'm just finishing the last few rounds of my 3 1400 round Rem Golden bullets. In the last 3 range trips I've had a split case "fail to extract" each time when using the ammo in my Ruger SR22 pistol.

The first two times I thought it was because I was outside and it was about 40 deg F.

Today I was at an indoor range an the temps were in the 70's

Not sure what is going on.
 
Why is your finger in the trigger in that pic?

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Been using golden bullets primarily for over 8 years. Never had a problem. Not as accurate as CCI, but definitely workable. Probably shot well over 5K rounds without an issue.
 
If you offered to give me a life supply of golden bullets and paid the freight as well I would turn the offer down. Life is to short to shoot with substandard ammo.

Fifty years ago they made a good product - firearms as well as ammo. But not in the last 30 years. Not just .22s, but brass and guns as well.

After going thru the trouble of sending defective products back time after time I give up.
 
I haven't put any Golden Bullets through my 15-22 yet. They worked fine in my Ruger 10-22, but the groups were considerably better wirh CCI. I have only used CCI in my 15-22 for that reason.
 
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