Remington .22 Golden Bullets?

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I started buying these after I had a big bag of mixed ammo and went up to the range with a recently purchased AR-7.

The only rounds this thing cycled reliably were the remington golden bullet ones. Every other rifle I have is either a bolt gun, or a lever or pump (the AR-7 is the only semi-auto rifle) and have not had issues with them.

For the time being, this is all I shoot. I really wish PMC would start making thier "standard velocity" loading again, that stuff shot better than ELEY Ten-X and was about $8/brick (compared to $15/box of eley). It used to really piss off the other competitors when I would show up with bricks of PMC and walk away with lots of trophys.
 
I have a Glock 17 that I use with an Advantage Arms .22lr conversion. The last time I used the Remington "Thunderbolt" ammo (40 grain) through the gun the leading was so bad I was probably not far from a major failure. I had run a bore snake through the barrel right before I left for the range just out of habit. At the range I put maybe 200 rounds through the pistol. I was shooting at shotgun hulls on the ground so I didn't really notice the decrease in accuracy.

When I got home I went to run a patch down the barrel and the rod would not fit. It took a while for me to figure that one out. Looking through the barrel it appeared smooth. The cleaning rod finally caught the edge of the lead build up and peeled it loose so I could see it. It took two hours of work to clean the barrel and I pulled an estimated 30-40 grains of lead out.

From my experience the "Thunderbolt" ammo from Remington is not for me. The Remington Golden hollow points (36 grain) have always functioned very well through the same pistol with very little fouling and only a few misfires.

Just my .02 cents.
 
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Yes, I have tried (and liked!) the Aguila Hyper-Velocity stuff. It IS fast, and the crack from the barrel is surprisingly loud. I'd estimate about twice as loud as a standard .22 - it turned some heads at the range.

It's quite accurate BUT it will not load in my 10/22. It simply will not chamber. The problem may be the aftermarket barrel has a tight match chamber, and the Aguilas tend to be slightly oversize? I'm not sure. But my Henry H001 and my friend's ancient bolt-action .22 both loved 'em, and shot them well.
 
I strongly dislike them because the powder doesn't burn all that cleanly, and I get bits on my hand when I shoot.
 
Hey guys. Had a good time at the range this monring.

Shot around for about 4 hrs on both mine and my son's rossi.


Here are my thoughts:

Golden Bullets never missed fired out of my sons brake-action rossi and the Xpert22's did the same. I cannot comment which was better since I was only shooting his @ the 20 yard mark while setting up the reddot.


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Well ok, as for my automatic marlin 795 rifle The Xpert 22: none of the 10 rounds shot perfect out of the clip. It kept jamming in the barrel which made me had to pull the bolt action back to pop out every since Xpert22 empty ammo out of it. I am not sure why, but it did.

As for the Goldens, they shot fine, which the brass part of the bullet ejected just fine and never seen it jam on me.

Total rounds shot out of the Marlin was 410. 205 shots each of the Goldens and Xperts22's

I am not sure what the heck is wrong w/ the Expert22's or why the old brass would not eject, but to me it was very annoying.

So +1 for the Remington Goldens :)
and -1 for the Winchester Expert22's :mad:
 
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Recently I purchased a 550rd bonus pack of Remington .22 hollow points thinking this was a great deal,I can't go wrong with Remington ! I've used their ammo for many years.I'm very disappointed in them,I've had approx 40% misfires and fouling :uhoh: like I've never seen before now.
Not to mention the accuracy(or,lack of it) is too inconsistant.
I have a lever action Henry rifle that is a "tack-driver" and has given me years of great shooting-I will not be feeding any more Remington trash through it.Guess I'll go back to Winchester or Federal !
 
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I have had very few misfires in thousands of rounds of bulk Golden Bullets. They work well for me, with one caveat: the bullets can oxidize if you keep them around for too long.
 
I have had very few misfires in thousands of rounds of bulk Golden Bullets. They work well for me, with one caveat: the bullets can oxidize if you keep them around for too long.
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You just scared me so much that I had to go out in the snow and shoot 100 rounds off before they oxidized. :eek:

I think I caught them just in time, they were starting to turn. :D

Bulk Remington's work just fine for me.
 
Even tho this thread started last year it still is interesting.I have begun using Federal 550 bilk-pack ammo with great results in all of my .22's.Not one malfunction.YMMV.tom.
 
My experience with remington's famous golden bullet has been bad for 30 years or so. It wasn't until I tried other ammo that I found out it was supposed to fire each and every time. The worst .22 ammo I've ever shot, bar none. They haven't improved it as my neighbor got his son a .22 and bought the rem. ammo. The very first round was a dud and there were more to come. Junk ammo.
 
Barrel Leading?

Hello,

I posted a question recently about Thunderbolt and bulk Winchester leading .22 barrels. I asked the question because these two ammunitions are not coated.

The answer was that they are waxed coated and a .22 doesn't have enough velocity for the rifling to strip any lead off of the bullet. The poster said I was 100 years behind. Yet, a couple of posters in this thread mentioned that leading was a problem with the Thunderbolts.

Would anyone else care to expound on leading?
 
As far as I m concerned Remington Golden Bullets in the bulk pack out right suck. bought a bulkpack and had a 5-6% failure rate. even had one round that the part of the brass casing was missing. I'll stick to the Fedaral bulk packs. They shoot just fine in my marlin 60. And I am happy with a 3 shot group that I can cover up with a dime from 35 yards.
 
After experiencing the misfires with Remingtons that fired when re-oriented under the firing pin, I set about to pull some down until I found the reason why. Only took about 5 rounds to find the first gap in the priming compound, and these had NOT been worked through the action...they were straight from the brick.

Of course, if you happen to have the gap right where the pin hits....you won't have ignition. Found a couple more with gaps...some bigger than others too. Fired them all and the ones with gaps were significantly less loud and energetic than the fully primed ones. This probably accounts for the difference in power that you notice sometimes as the weak primers don't light the powder as consistantly.

I'm not bashing Remington, just passing on what I found. Many boxes I have shot worked just fine so it seems that occasionally they have a glitch in the priming dept. But, most other brands seem to be more consistant for me.
 
Probably experienced the highest number of failures to fire with Remington 22 rf ammo. For certain it has to be a uneven distribution of the primer at point of manufacture. Quit buying it about 10 years ago on account of this. Recently bought a box of 550 and same problem exists. Also see a lot of once struck 22 cartridges on the ground at the range. They're, for the most part, Remington.
 
I never buy them. Remington golden bullets have very unreliable primers. I usually get 1 or 2 out of every 10 that don't go off. Doesn't matter what gun I use.

The Federal 550 round bulk pak has nearly never misfired. I've had more than probably 15,000 rounds through my several .22 handguns and rifles, and the Federal bulk pak is good enough I've never bought anything else except a few Aguila specialty rounds like the 60 grain SSS and the super colibri and the super maximum or whatever.
 
i'll hit it.....rem golden bullets are the worst .22 round i've fired. i won't comment on accuracy, but i cannot cycle them reliably through either my 10/22 or ruger mkII. probably something like 30% misfires, or more, and that is unacceptable.
 
I've gone through thousands of the Rem. Thunderbolts in my 10/22 without any malfunctions or unusual leading. The only problems I ever had were with aftermarket hi-cap magazines. Using Ruger factory mags, the rifle functions flawlessly with Thunderbolts so far.

My experience with the Thunderbolts led me to buy the bulk pack of Rem. Golden Bullets at Walmart. I haven't tried them in the 10/22 yet. I hope my experience with them is better than what I'm hearing from you guys!
 
My experience with the Thunderbolts led me to buy the bulk pack of Rem. Golden Bullets at Walmart. I haven't tried them in the 10/22 yet. I hope my experience with them is better than what I'm hearing from you guys!
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There doesn't seem to be any middle ground here.

I've used them for years and never had a misfire, but to read the posts here they are terrible.

Let us know how they work out for you.
 
I have never had problems with them in my two 10/22's or MKII pistol. They are definately not my favorite, but usually work for plinking. Accuracy is not very good compared to others and does seem to be very dirty to shoot.
 
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