Remington 22lr ammunition?

I havent had good luck with the thunderbolts or whatever they are called. They shoot ok for plinking, but they are pretty inconsistent for anything else.

The one I truly dislike is the remington thunderbolt. Dirty, inaccurate, lots of duds, weak cycling.
If they shoot fine in your firearm then by all means use them. I tested a bunch of different .22 in my bull barrel suppressed 10/22 and the CCI subsonic was the most accurate (well it tied with eley, but for 1/3 the price) and CCI mini-mags for general plinking/varmint control. It's a bit more expensive than most bulk .22 but still feels like a great bargain after buying some centerfire ammo.

I think I still have about a case of yellow jackets and they were accurate in my bolt action chipmunk and AK-22. So-so in the 10/22. They should be fine in a bolt action.

.22lr are interesting creatures, the ammo one gun loves, another of the exact same make and model may hate. You just have to buy a box of as many different kinds you can find and when you find a load it likes stock up.

Nothing but problems with just about every Remington .22LR available; and this is in a half dozen or more different guns. To make it even more annoying, I couldn't even get it to work in a Remington rifle.

Try a box of different kinds of Rem ammo. Your guns will tell you if they like it.

Why does a company with Remingtons reputation continut to market this trash.

Its a waste of resources let alone labor, and we condemn chinese goods.

Avoid Remington's rimfire stuff completely. In the past two years I've tried their various offerings in .22LR and .22WMR and was rewarded by spending too much money testing a vastly inferior product.

Winchester's Super-X for .22WMR is okay; at least it fires. Haven't tried it for .22LR yet but I hear good things.

Federal works just fine, along with Aguila and CCI. Eley's TenEx or Subsonic stuff will make your eyes pop when you see the bug-holes it shoots.

I still have the same opinion of Remington rimfire ammo that I expressed last time this topic appeared several weeks ago. It is consistently the worst rimfire of the half dozen or so different brands I use.

Doesn't seem to matter whether I shoot it in my revolver or one of three different semi-auto .22s, the results are always the same: multiple duds in every box. I just won't buy it anymore unless nothing else is available. OTOH I've never had the first problem with Remington centerfire ammo.

As far as I'm concerned, Remington Target has been their most reliable .22 ammo over the last several years.
That's not to say that some batches of it can't go downhill quickly.
In some guns and magazines it functions better, which is not to say that it's the most accurate. But I'm mostly concerned with reliable feeding in guns that prefer standard velocity ammo and it functions well in a wide variety of guns.

Years ago (15+) I had decent batches of Yellow Jackets.
I avoid all Remington Rimfire now, for the reasons stated above, there's too much better stuff available.

Why does a company with Remingtons reputation continut to market this trash.

Its a waste of resources let alone labor, and we condemn chinese goods.

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Good question -- it almost seems like Remington wants to drive their customers away.

As for Remington centerfire ammo, well, it might be good stuff. But after my experience with Remington rimfire ammo, I don't think I'll risk any money or chances to take game on Remington. There are too many other companies that make quality ammunition.

Thunderbolts are the worst of the Remington line. They are also the cheapest of the Remington line. If you have a single shot, they are great, but they don't fare well in auto loaders....The rest of their ammo seems to be OK. I have shoot Golden Bullets without any problems.

Remington's rimfire ammo is of decidedly subpar quality, particularly in the consistency of the distribution of priming compound around the rim, which far too frequently causes misfires. I've had a few issues with their budget centerfire UMC brand, too, although I suppose their other centerfire ammo is fine (I don't exactly have a "warm & fuzzy" feeling about Remington ammo because of my experiences, however others may have had different experiences).

I think it depends upon your gun. Thunderbolts are cheap and work well 499 out of 500 times from my bolt action so they basically get a thumbs up here. Now Winchester Super X yuck. YMMV

I've had perfect success with their centerfire products. I cannot say anything bad about them. I have never tried a Remington rimfire product that was satisfactory. I have not tried them all, but I suspect I have tried most of it, and none of it has done better than about a 5% failure rate.

Lots of people make good rimfire ammunition. I see no real reason to buy any from Remington, although I do try a box every five years or so to see if anything has changed.

Why does Remington continue to put out such an awful product? Great question. I can only assume that enough people continue buying it to make it worthwhile for them to continue making it.

For cheap plinking ammo, all my semiautos are happy with Remington Golden Bullets.

They're dirtier than the Minimags, but the only thing that notices it are my Mosquitos and even there it's a quick pipe cleaner swipe in one spot every 400-500 rounds.

I have a box of the remington bulk. I've shot about 200 rounds out of it. No problems. I bought this box about two-three weeks ago. As was mentioned...ymmv.

Well whether target shooting at targets or just plinging I like to hit what I'm aiming at. Remingtons high quality control just doesn't quite cut it, to say the least.

Laying out cold hard cash for inaccurant ammo isn't real high on the IQ scale in my opinion.

Remington Thunderbolts are the gold standard in testing a semi-auto rimfire. If your gun will reliably shoot this stuff, your gun will probably shoot nearly anything.

Never buy it! I heard to many bad things to even waste the money!

Fail!

I've used Remington Golden Bullet bulk packs quite a few times in the past. I haven't had any problems in my Marlin model 60, Nylon-66 or Beretta Bobcat. They work just fine in my dads Model 60 and his Colt Woodsman as well.

No complaints here.

I've never experienced leading until I shot a brick of Thunderbolts in my Ruger -- came out as lead foil ribbons and I had to drive the brass brush in with a mallot!

The "Golden Bullet" bulk pack has had way too many duds, rounds that fold instead of climbing the feed ramp, and cases that blow out when fired.

I'm not sure I'd buy any more Remington rimfire even if I was completely out.

I have not had problems with Remington (Thunderbolt, GB, Viper) in my Savage, 10/22 or JC Higgins beyond the occasional dud (1/200?).

I shot some of their Thunderbolts years ago. They did well enough for what I wanted then. Their bulk pack stuff had a lot of duds in it. I prefer winchester or federal.

Remington is not my favorite for all the reasons described above. However, I used to have a Beretta .22 that loved Remington Vipers and Yellow Jackets, and one of my current .22s loves Golden Bullets above all else.