I've had 3 squibs with Rem Golden bullets over around 1000 rounds of it. All three times I heard a pop and either no ding on the steel and no hole in the paper. I stopped buying Rem GB's more than a year ago. I have never had a squib with any other .22LR in my life, I would be willing to bet that I've shot 100,000 rounds of .22LR probably alot more. I've had week reports(round fires but the report is very weak, I stop shooting and check the barrel), terrible accuracy, and fail to fires. Want to guess the brand I had all the problems with?
Remington makes poor (maybe the worst) .22LR ammo. I won't buy their centerfire ammo either, I've had problems with it too. Last week when I could of purchased a 525 round box of Rem GBs for $21 or spend $20 on 400 rounds of Fed American Eagle I picked the Federal. I don't want Remington to make it right. What if my nephew is shooting his 10/22 and doesn't recognize the difference between a pop and a boom?
My conversation with Remington customer service would go like this:
RCSG: Hello, this is Rem customer service. My name is Guy. How may I help you?
Me: Hello Mr. Rem Customer Service Guy. I purchased some of your ammo and I had three squibs from two different boxes of ammo.
RCSG: (Assuming he knows what a squib is) Really? That's terrible, send us the rest of each box and we'll replace it.
Me: No that's all right.
RCSG: Really, it's no problem. We just want to make it right.
Me: Well that's nice and all but why would I want more of your poorly manufactured ammo that could blow up in my face, or take the fingers off of my nephews hand? I just thought I would alert you to the fact that you will soon be facing a lawsuit, someone is going to get hurt. I won't sue you, but someone will. I can't tell you how many of my friends, family, and people on forums have had problems with your ammo, dangerous problems. I know Remington won't issue a recall unless two or more people are killed. That would probably cost more than just paying out lawsuits under the table. Maybe you should change your quality control practices. I have never had one problem with any ammo from CCI(even the Blazer works great) or Aguila. I know this will never get past your desk so I'm wasting my breath. Thanks for listening though and have a nice day!
RCSG: Sir, wait, ahhh he hung up.
RCSG to other customer service phone jockeys: Man this must be the 100th call I've had in the last six months about how terrible our ammo is.
Other RCSg: I'm up to 1000! I'm glad that we have 100 other guys answering phones or I might be up to 10,000!
And so concludes Not Masterpiece Ammo theater!
I won't buy any ammo from Remington, and haven't for more than a year. With the current scare I really would stay away. If their quality control was bad before all the craziness I wonder how bad it could be now. Bad Remington ammo is the reason I started reloading and handloading. .22LR is the only thing I can't reload now, I would if I could. I might pay a little more for quality .22LR ammo but when an explosion (even one as small as a .22LR creates) is happening that close to my face and hands I like to take every precaution.