Lots of fail to fire with recent Remington Golden Bullet bulk ammo,,lots of them. I saved a dozen of them a couple weeks ago and pulled the bullets once home.
Many didn't have any priming compound in the rim.
Some had it in spots, so they'd go bang if positioned just right. A couple did'nt have any powder along with no priming or little of it. Those would have been a stuck bullet in the bore had the primer launched them I suspect.
Very accurate though the stuff that did shoot. No problems getting inch to inch & half groups at 50m using an elbow rest in a Win 63, factory sights and Social Security eyes.
ThunderBolts used to be great stuff. Cheap and accurate. Used to use it in Bullseye back in the 70's and 80's. Then Rem had the QC problems starting in the late 90's or early 2000 and I got stuck with one of the batches that leaded so badly after a mag or cylinder, a brass brush had to be hammered through the bore.
No more T-Bolts since then. I still have a couple of those boxes around in a paper bag.
The truth is, most all the 22rf ammo of late is nothing to brag about as far as reliability is concerned.
I've got new Winchester, Fed and CCI and all will come up with FTGoBang. Same problems as the Remington, just not as often.
The Winchesters I have now sound like you're shooting a mix of shorts,LR, standVel and HV though. All from the same bulk box.
I'm thinkin' China or Mexico maybe.
The marketing names and packaging changes often for some of these.
One box of bulk Winchester ammo I had a couple years ago was from Australia of all places. Pretty good as I recall but I haven't see than on a box since.
Many didn't have any priming compound in the rim.
Some had it in spots, so they'd go bang if positioned just right. A couple did'nt have any powder along with no priming or little of it. Those would have been a stuck bullet in the bore had the primer launched them I suspect.
Very accurate though the stuff that did shoot. No problems getting inch to inch & half groups at 50m using an elbow rest in a Win 63, factory sights and Social Security eyes.
ThunderBolts used to be great stuff. Cheap and accurate. Used to use it in Bullseye back in the 70's and 80's. Then Rem had the QC problems starting in the late 90's or early 2000 and I got stuck with one of the batches that leaded so badly after a mag or cylinder, a brass brush had to be hammered through the bore.
No more T-Bolts since then. I still have a couple of those boxes around in a paper bag.
The truth is, most all the 22rf ammo of late is nothing to brag about as far as reliability is concerned.
I've got new Winchester, Fed and CCI and all will come up with FTGoBang. Same problems as the Remington, just not as often.
The Winchesters I have now sound like you're shooting a mix of shorts,LR, standVel and HV though. All from the same bulk box.
I'm thinkin' China or Mexico maybe.
The marketing names and packaging changes often for some of these.
One box of bulk Winchester ammo I had a couple years ago was from Australia of all places. Pretty good as I recall but I haven't see than on a box since.
