Remington Ammo SUX

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One box out of millions that they sold with some defects. Clearly you are unharmed so not a big deal. Is this the first time you've ever received a single defective product in your life? What are you really mad about? That 15 or so rounds worth less than a dollar are bad? Seriously?

They offered to make it right but you are not willing to work with them to do so. Why are you ticked?
 
bulk pack, golden bullet. Yes. Walmart, not sure. Been stocking up, buying a brick anytime I go anywhere that has it in stock. I think this box of rem was purchased before christmas, but couldn't say for sure.
 
Deavis, I have purchased defective products before. And every time left me furious. I don't care if it is a 5cent stick of gum or a $35,000 car. I have never in my life sold, or delivered a defective product of ANY sort. It is a matter of pride, service, quality, reputation......etc....Also, as previously stated, HALF THE BOX WAS LIKE THIS, a box of 550.
 
bulk pack, golden bullet. Yes. Walmart, not sure. Been stocking up, buying a brick anytime I go anywhere that has it in stock. I think this box of rem was purchased before christmas, but couldn't say for sure.
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Walmart is where my problem remingtons came from. Bulk pack, golden bullet. yep before christmas, or was last summer?
 
I think Remington really needs the whole box. This is a blatant QA/QC problem. I would be willing to bet that it was one machine and one employee who was having a bad day that is responsible for the whole mess and there probably were a lot more deformed rounds from that machine on that day.

I have never had 1/3 (33%) FTF with Remington 22 ammo. It is more like 2% which is more than it should be.
 
I remember about 15 years ago I bought some bulk packs of 22s I had problems with and I vowed to never buy them again.... I remember!... They were called 22 thunder bolts. My ruger and marlin hated them. Well guess who made them.... Remington.
 
:rolleyes:

I don't buy anything other than CCI Minimags and Stingers in 22 LR.

I have a brick of Remington Thunderbolts with a stranger problem, the lead is disintegrating and all the bullets are sloppy loose in the case.

Strange I thought Remington were great until I ran into this...
 
Yikes!

I have probably gone through about 25,000 rounds of Remington Golden bullets, all bulk pack. I have never seen a single deformed round and honestly just about 10 rounds total that wouldn't fire....

Send it back to Remington, I'm sure that they will fix your problem.
 
I'd be a bit pissed as well. Obviously there was some shoddy quality control when that batch made it out the door.
I believe "fair" compensation would be a postage-paid shipping lable or box sent for return shipping (I've received this option a few times for warranty repair, etc). If I were asked to suck up the shipping cost to help them make things right, yeah... I'd feel every bit as burned as ThrottleJockey without a doubt.
 
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quality control... bad day for the assembly line worker... somebody doing this just to pee in a random guys cheerios.

meanwhile, all of the people shipping and handling the ammo after it leaves the factory are left above suspicion.

looks to me like the box was dropped HARD and the cases smashed into each other. only way I can see the random and multiple crimps and dents on the rounds happening. loosen up on remington, I'm not a fan of their ammo except for their premium self defense and hunting rounds, but I don't bash an entire product line because I had one shoddy box.
 
I'd guess that Occam's Razor applies here.

The box got squished. Two hundred .22LR cartridges got smashed against 200 others .22LR cartridges. Some of them deformed due to physics, others didn't for the same reason.
 
Since when is it a crime to mail ammo? As long as it done legally and through a carrier other than the USPS, you can mail ammo. UPS will do it, however it must be marked on the outside as ORM-D with approved logo layout (this is Fed law) and declared to shipper as ammo.

I have bought .22 long rifle ammo and had a few rounds that were not shootable. But out of 500 rounds in a brick, I don't consider that too bad considering they are mass produced. Now if every box of .22 ammo I bought from Remington were like that, then yes, I would stop buying their product.

A friend of mine bought a 100 round value pack of Winchester white box .45ACP and the OAL on every round was so bad they would not cycle in his Kimber. Walmart replaced what he had with another box. No problems with them.
 
Just a quick question since I really doubt that they went into the box looking like that, maybe a few but not half of it. How did the box look?
It almost looks like they had a rough trip at the bottom of the pallet or got the 'Ace Ventura' treatment.
 
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It's the new Obama macro-stamping for public safety.
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That's funny.

After Remington told me I was out the replacement cost of a broken extractor and bolt in my Savage because I was using "inferior" equipment and not a remington rifle to shoot the ammo, I have refused to buy anything from them.

I was shooting golden bullets. The bullet exploded so loudly that my ears were ringing and I was standing about 20 feet away.
 
It's the new Obama macro-stamping for public safety.
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+5 cool points for that one.

They offered to make it right. Let 'em. If the new box comes back the same way, you have grounds to complain. If the new ammo works, there ya go.
 
That's why I switched to federal champion. Cheapest, cleanest shooting .22lr I've found so far. Lead bullet though, don't know if that matters to you.
 
I quit buying Remington 22 rimfire in 1957, about the time they changed the box from the old dark green with red and white lettering to the new box , half light green and half white with red and black lettering. It was about the same time they introduced "golden 22s". The outside lube was so heavy that my bolt gun would become balky and stiff to function from the accumulated excess lube. Still have a couple boxes and they haven't gotten any better with age, still oversize from all the wax.
 
Put all the ammo together (laid out) along with the box with any facotry markings on it (lot #'s and the like). Take digital photos and email them to Remington. No cost involved other than time. Try this and see if you don't get some kind of response from them. It's worth a shot. (pun intended)
 
This sampling comes as no surprise to me. Worse, the old adage that you get what you pay for doesn't seem apply in this case because Remington ammo costs about the same as the other brands on the market ... and it has been spotty at best for a long time now, at least in my experience.

I'm not sure what it is, or why the issue has lingered for so long, but a once-trusted brand is always relegated to the back shelf in my opinion when I make a trip to the ammo store. Even when ammo is scarce -- as it is these days, what with all the panic buying that's going on out there -- I'm still inclined to pass Remington by.

You'd think that at some point they'd get it. Apparently not.
 
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