Remington 22 lr Golden Bullets

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I’ve shot many many bricks of them. They have always been very reliable for me compared to other bulk ammo.
Now I know your blessed! Or have really, really crappy luck with other brands of .22s:p

I quit buying golden, federal bulk, and Winchester bulks, because of miss fires and poor accuracy.
I've only ever had federal stick a bullet in the barrel, and that was ammo that went thru the washing machine.
 
Dose Remington have a Quality problem
with there 22 long rifle ammo. I purchased 100 ct. Golden bullets .
I had 8 squib. 2 misfire rounds.
I started shooting these back in the mid 1960's as a kid. They misfired back then & ever since. The bulk golden bullets are the worst .22 ammo I have ever shot, but their 50 round & 100 round are much better, but still not trusted - ever.
 
i would call them, the golden is known for misfires but not squibs.
They are well known for both. Calling them will get you nowhere. I called them back when customer service meant something & got nowhere. Remington never could get their priming compound right or their ammo charge correct. Their Thunderbolts shoot just fine & go bang everytime with no squibs. Go figure.
 
Ignition is ignition. I can't imagine a flame front that is dainty and specific.
I got squibs with Federal champion out of my MKIII with weird firing pin issue. I can see it happening.

That said Remington GB have been good for me. Thunderbolts not so much. But the GB always work.
 
Only in a 1940's Savage .22. The Golden Bullet and Thunderbolt constantly blow back gas into your eyes (yes, wearing safety glasses).
But this doesn't happen with the Romanian M69 Trainer. The only detectable gas in the M69s puff out the correct end of the bore.

The only Rem. .22LR I've tried in my handguns: both the M&P and Ruger Mark IV Standard is Golden Bullet, and it has been 99%-100% reliable in both. These handguns were bought brand-new (retail) since December.
 
They are well known for both. Calling them will get you nowhere. I called them back when customer service meant something & got nowhere. Remington never could get their priming compound right or their ammo charge correct. Their Thunderbolts shoot just fine & go bang everytime with no squibs. Go figure.
i've had misfires but no squibs with any 22.
 
Funny how people assume it's the ammo without much if any thought about the rifle or its condition. I worked at Remington for two years in ammunition development. I bought 10 bags of the 1,400 round packs for $15 each because the brass was blemished. I've shot literaly thousands of the GB stuff in pistols and rifles and haven't had a single failure to fire. A friend was shooting SK match .22LR ammo through my filthy (suppressed) S&W AR 15-22 recently and had numerous issues. I guess SK ammo sucks so I should go on a forum and complain about the lousy quality. Ridiculous.

351 WINCHESTER said:
Remington never could get their priming compound right or their ammo charge correct.

This is absolute rubbish. When I was there a test was conducted shooting more than 1,000,000 rounds through a number of properly maintained firearms with only three failures to fire. The fix was to increase the amount of primer compound added to each case to reduce the chance of voids in the case rim. The primer mix was never an issue. Is Remington .22LR ammunition dirty, sure. Are there better choices, maybe. Does it work well in properly built and maintained .22 rifles and pistols … definitely.
 
Now I know your blessed! Or have really, really crappy luck with other brands of .22s:p

I quit buying golden, federal bulk, and Winchester bulks, because of miss fires and poor accuracy.
I've only ever had federal stick a bullet in the barrel, and that was ammo that went thru the washing machine.

I have endless misfires with federal and Winchester bulk packs. Blasers and golden bullets have always worked well for me with great accuracy.
 
Funny how people assume it's the ammo without much if any thought about the rifle or its condition.
I bought probably 5k rounds, cause I could get it for 10 bucks a brick, and I got enough duds to quit using them once I found blasers for about the same.
Admittedly my rifle got a lot of use, as did my Browning buckmark, but they ran fine on blasers, and non-bulk packed ammo including Remington greentag and subs.
I haven't bought any since mid2ks, I'll try them again.
 
They always work great for me. I don’t think I’ve ever had a bad one and they are my preferred.22lr ammo.
 
I've never had a squib of any kind and I fire large quantities of .22LR
I think we need to better define the kind of ammunition failures that can occur with 22LR. For semi auto rifles:

1) Squib: the primer compound will ignite but there will be insufficient powder ignited to propel the bullet out of the barrel. The bullet will leave the case but will be retained somewhere in the gun. In most cases if you then fire another round you would risk damage to the gun at the very least.

2) Failure to ignite: primer compound is missing, incompletely spun in the case rim, or the case rim is insufficiently compressed at the time of firing pin impact. I haven't rigorously documented the prevalence of these failures but I have experienced them all.
Missing primer compound seems to be the least common reason, followed by incomplete distribution of the compound in the rim. In the latter case, rechambering the cartridge in a new orientation so that the firing pin can strike a different part of the rim, can achieve discharge. I had a lot of those failures with Magtech .22LR, the one with the plain lead projectile. A problem with the gun was excluded because this happened with multiple guns.
The third problem is more difficult to diagnose, but in my experience is more likely to be due to reduced impact of the firing pin on the rim of the case, because of a problem with the gun. There are multiple possible causes:
A) Crud or residues obstructing firing pin travel
B) Bolt wasn't in battery completely, usually because of crud or residues preventing a clean mating surface between the bolt face and the barrel, where the design of the gun is susceptible to this problem.
C) Bolt wasn't in battery completely, because the cartridge wasn't completely chambered, for various reasons. Could be crud in the chamber or the bolt was held up when stripping the cartridge from the magazine. When the trigger is pulled, much of the firing pin's momentum is lost by pushing the cartridge properly into the chamber.
In B and C the trigger may not release if the bolt is too far out of battery. If it does release you may get a light strike and no ignition.
D) Hard case rim. I experienced this with a batch of Eley Sport a few years ago. I was getting light strikes in several clean rifles with this ammo only. I switched to RWS after that.
E) Fault or configuration issue with the rifle. I've had this with a broken firing pin and a defective firing pin spring, for example.

Having two identical rifles is handy to exclude one failure and confirm another.

3) Inconsistent powder charge or similar defect introduced at manufacture: this is easy to diagnose if you are paying attention. The first clue might be flyers. The second clue might be an obvious change in the report or a decreased velocity on a chrony.
This is where the well-earned criticism of Remington Thunderbolt comes in. Magtech too. How many of us have reported inconsistent performance of these rounds over the years?

4) Other manufacturing issues: one example is a problem I had with CCI Standard where I couldn't get it to feed properly in my rifles. It was one batch with out of spec bullets. They seemed to be loose in the case mouth and would not rise properly in my magazines. I couldn't get through a magazine without having several failures to feed.
That's confirmed with several magazines and other shooters with a similar experience with their rifles.

Then you get variables related to a natural bad combination of rifle and ammo. Often with no apparent reason, one rifle won't group well with a particular type of ammo. But in those cases you will at least have consistent ignition.

I found one brand of ammo that keyholed in all my rifles and those of the club: the 60gn Aguila SSS. I have yet to find a rifle that likes those rounds!

As to Remington Golden bullets, they were better than Thunderbolts in my rifles but they grouped poorly. The Vipers were better but in general the Remington. 22LR ammo doesn't have a good reputation at our club.

The best performing ammo at a reasonable cost has been RWS Target Rifle, for my purposes.
 
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