Remington Golden Bullet Squib

[4D5]

I'm not a fan of Rem GB because I get a lot of inconsistent reports when shooting and usually a fair share of duds. However with the scarcity of ammo, I purchased this ammo at Wally World a few weeks ago. It's all they have had in weeks and I bought 3 boxes and my brother bought the remaining other 3 boxes.

Well today I had the S&W 15-22 out and had a Golden Bullet squib.

I had a very light report and no hole in the paper so I removed the magazine, pulled the bolt back and the spent brass ejected. I keep a brass rod in the truck so I got it out to make sure the barrel was clear. Good thing I checked because I tapped out the round in the picture below.

In my area scorning any ammo is a **** shoot. I'll certainly be glad when there's more ammo on the shelf and a person can once again pick and choose his preferred ammo of choice.

 

[pownal55]

I never use Remington rimfire ammunition, inconsistent and my guns never seem to shoot them well. Good thing you checked the bore.

 

[arjay]

So much for new and improved...

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

I shot a couple of hundred golden .22's today from my stash. Had 4 complete duds that wouldn't fire from mutiple hits around the rim. Had about 6 more that did fire when I rotated them in the cylinder and tried them again. I don't buy remington .22's anymore. BTW when I was a teenager it was great ammo. Guess they don't care about quality anymore.

 

[BrotherDave]

This info. makes me think twice about using any of my Remington .22's.

 

[Robotech]

While .22s aren't known for having a particularly firm seal/crimp between the bullet and shell casing, the 525 Value Pack of Remington Goldens I picked up last week seem to be particularly loose. I'm keeping them in a gasketed ammo box to try to limit moisture infiltration from the air.

The "fit" is only a little better for the rounds from a Winchester 555 pack I got a few weeks earlier. One of those failed to feed when the bullet itself caught on the feed-ramp, evidently because it was at a fairly substantial angle from the case. When I got it out and gave the bullet a slight "tug" with my fingers, it came right out of the casing.

And before that at a Bullseye competition, I watched one shooter have repeated failures from a pack of Winchester M22s, where many of the bullets were seated at an angle compared to the axis of the case.

None of these are what I'd call "quality ammo", so I guess it behooves us to do our own quality inspection as we load them, and take special care in handling and storage. At least most of them shoot.

 

[rojodiablo]

22lr seem to be a picky lot, some of them. I have been running the same Marlin model 60 since 1977, and it eats the Remington ammo up, and always has. In fact, it is not a picky eater at all.

I have noticed one thing, time and time again: the M&P15-22 is a picky eater. I can not understand why they are so, but there is no doubt, they do not play well with all the kids on the playground. Which is a shame.
My rifle has a conservative 1/2 million rounds thru it in the last 35 years, and an awful lot of those were Remington. A whole pile of them. We have taught a dozen kids or more to shoot with that rifle, and I have shot it silly since I was 7 years old.
I can also confirm that my Baretta 22 semi pistol eats this stuff up without complaint.

 

[cddanjr]

I've gone thru 1000's of rounds and really had no trouble with them. granted I bought them last year and still have about 7 boxes left to shoot.

I like em, so does my cache of 10-22's! You must remember they are made and shucked out by the millions, so there are some bad ones in the manufacturing curve.

Chuck

 

[Smitty357]

22lr seem to be a picky lot, some of them. I have been running the same Marlin model 60 since 1977, and it eats the Remington ammo up, and always has. In fact, it is not a picky eater at all.

I have noticed one thing, time and time again: the M&P15-22 is a picky eater. I can not understand why they are so, but there is no doubt, they do not play well with all the kids on the playground.

I have to agree here. I have an older Winchester model 190 chambered for S, L and LR. Its much like the AK47, because it will eat anything I shove down its throat.

But my 15-22 on the other hand is kind of picky. Some days it likes rem and some days it doesnt. Actually i think its a batch specific eater, lol. But the same bullets that fail in my 15-22 will fly right through my old model 190. So its safe to say, the 15-22 is just picky. They just dont make em like they use to anymore. And likely they never will make em like they use to.

 

[rojodiablo]

I have to agree here. I have an older Winchester model 190 chambered for S, L and LR. Its much like the AK47, because it will eat anything I shove down its throat.

But my 15-22 on the other hand is kind of picky. Some days it likes rem and some days it doesnt. Actually i think its a batch specific eater, lol. But the same bullets that fail in my 15-22 will fly right through my old model 190. So its safe to say, the 15-22 is just picky. They just dont make em like they use to anymore. And likely they never will make em like they use to.

I'm pretty sure if the Marlin Model 60 and Winchester model 190 were trucks, they would run on gas, diesel, propane,..... and coal.

 

[Nevada Ed]

Never had a squib with the Rem gold and it was pretty good in my Marlin auto but the Winchester pump did not like it for some reason.

Just a lot of misfires in a box of shells, was my dislike of this ammo. 70% would fire on the 2nd attempt .

Since it is for target and plinking, I don't mind a few misfires.

I liked Winchester years ago but they upped their prices , to where I don't buy it any more.

 

[5906fan]

I've seen Remmy .22lr badly foul a Mk Ruger bbl.

 

[SMSgt]

Haven't used Rem .22s since it was in a green & red box.

 

[chief38]

I refuse to buy Remington RIMFIRE ammo anymore! Too many duds!

 

[brucev]

I don't know what to say about the Rem. GB's. My experience with it is limited to only a few hundred rounds. But my experience has been completely positive. Of late any .22 LR ammo is hard to find. So, of late, I buy whatever I can find. A few months ago I was able to find 450 rds. of the Remington Golden .22 LR's. I got them at what is now a very good price. I shot some through my 18-3. They worked perfectly. Accuracy was very good, on par w/ CCI Mini-Mags. I used the rest of the GB's to trim and fit the followers in some Pro-Mag 15-22 magazines that I converted from 10 rd. to 32 rd. capacity. A number of those rounds got bent up, noses mashed, etc. during the fitting process. Some even got actually loose in the case from repeated cycling through the rifle. I was very much surprised when I took the rifle and ammo to the range. There all the Rem. GB's feed and fired flawlessly. This included all the ammo. Accuracy and reliability, etc., were excellent. I fired both CCI Mini-Mags and the Rem. GB's. It was not possible to see any difference in the performance of the two types of ammo. In fact, out of 500 rounds fired, the only failure to feed was on a single round of CCI Mini-Mags. It was replaced in the magazine and feed perfectly when the bolt was cycled.