Remington 552 Jammaster

So a couple years ago, a family heirloom and my first and favorite .22, a Remington 512 Sportsmaster, was stolen from my home and never recovered. Our insurance company volunteered to replace it which wasn't the same but I was still happy. After a few months they called us up and said "your replacement rifle is at your FFL to get picked up." We went to pick it up and find a brand new Remington box. Do what? I called up the agent right quick and said "hey this is not a 512 sportsmaster" to which he replied "oh we couldn't find a decent replacement so we upgraded you to this better semi auto model and it's brand new!"

Jesus Christ why didn't I trade it in that very day as a brand new in box gun? This gun and I have the worst love hate relationship of any of my firearms. I love the big game sights, the trigger, the beautiful wood, the great balance and the versatility of being able to cycle shorts, longs, and long rifles.

Now for the hate. Though it says it cycles everything on the barrel, I have never ever had it make it through a loaded tube without at least two jams. I mean this rifle does everything. If you feather the charging handle forward, it won't strike hard enough to fire a round. If you pull it back to fast on a loaded round, the extractor slips off the rim. Half way through a loaded tube it will feed two rounds at once. This is the most common jam and it happens with everything. Golden bullet, federal bulk, mini mags, stinger, subsonic, anything. Sometimes it just doesn't eject a spent casing or it stove pipes.

I would really like to make this rifle work but nothing helps. I have cleaned it in and out and that didn't help. I let it get dirty and that didn't help. I tried it with lots of oil, a little oil, no oil. I just cannot get this rifle to cooperate!

So should I sell the damn thing and try to get a 512 like I had or should I try to make this guy work? Thoughts?

Breakingcontact and others - I've tried all kinds of ammo. Everything you guys have mentioned above has gone through this gun and the difference is miniscule. Hotter stuff is a little better but still probably only get 60% functionality out of a loaded tube.

DM - It's not brand new anymore. Maybe a year old. It was kinda a deal where I didn't shoot it much. Take it out with one kind of ammo, no luck. "huh better clean it and get different ammo" a month later take it out again with different ammo and have same experience. Rinse and repeat, let a year pass, want to throw gun into scrap pile.

Fremmer and 788Ham - Our insurance agent is a friend of the family. He's been doing our family's insurance since before I was born. He got the quote on "fair market value" of being like under $200 due to age etc. and he knew that wouldn't buy a new rifle so he opted to replace it instead. Now I'm starting to think I'd rather have the $200

DM - Did i blame Remington at any point in my post so far? Did I say it was their fault I let it go this long? Did I complain about their quality of product or their customer service? Did I say this was normal of 552s? Did I whine about getting a lemon? No I don't think I did. So you can take that condescending attitude somewhere else because you aren't contributing anything to this thread.

Where did I do any of that? Quote it please because I did not do anything that I mentioned above. I have other Remington products that are fine and I do not consider this their fault per se. Others on this thread have commented on Remington's QC but not me. Read MY posts again before you continue to comment.