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I considered them junk until Dicks got load in last week. I hesitantly bought them and have been pleasantly surprised. I do think the quality has improved.

I had the head separate on one of those "golden turds" in my Marlin 60. Took a trip to the smith to get the remnants out of the chamber.

Glad to here that their QC may have improved

I have never understood peoples' troubles with Golden Bullets. I've used this brand consistently for the last 15-20 years with only a rare misfire or other problem. I have a Marlin 60 that absolutely loves them. At 50 yards, it will make lots of little groups much like the OP's #7. I have also had good experience with CCI and most other brands. I do recall some problems with the old Federal Lightnings in the '80s, and some misfeed problems caused by the truncated cone bullets of some old Spitfire loads (does anyone remember these that came packed in little round plastic cans?). The worst was some steel-cased Russian .22s that were given to me to try. Extraction was horrible in those, and I never again even looked at steel-cased rimfire ammo.

I hate to hear bad news about Remington. They and Marlin were always my go to American companys. But times change I guess. When I was a kid, my dad would buy me a brick a week to keep me busy and out of trouble. That's a lot of golden bullets! I got quite good at hitting hand thrown pine trim blocks out behind the planer mill.
Point is, back then out of all those go zillion rounds I fired I only remember ONE dud! Most were fired through a Marlin 97, a Savage 6 and later a Rem 66. I remember when Tom Frye made his record on hand thrown blocks.
Ah the good old days!
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I live on the planet where my own first hand experience is more important to my buying habits than what I read on the internet.

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I didn't mean to insult you or doubt your experience. It's just wildly different from mine. That's why I said the thing about you must be on another planet because where I'm at Remington ammo is horrendous. When you round has zero drop at 50 yards and the next round hits the ground 5 feet in front of you there's a serious problem. When you can't tell if a round actually cleared the barrel there's a problem. When you have to repeatedly clean a rifle that has gone through decades without that kind of cleaning there's a problem.

Again I always hear others saying they have good luck with Remington. I sure don't but I accept others do for whatever reason. It can't be just my rifle because I have had a dozen .22's over the last few years at least. I still have several. I'd have to count to know how many. They all had problems with the Remington or the ones I tried it in did. I wouldn't put it in a semi-auto because I was afraid I'd have to send it to a gunsmith to get it working again.

The only thing that really surprised me about your post was the fact you have had problems with CCI ammo. I do see people posting entirely different experiences with Remington .22 ammo but never have I seen anyone say what you've said about CCI. I'm not doubting you. I'm just very surprised.

I bought a bucket of the Remington's last fall. $72 OTD.

Having only shot about 200 of them, with no duds yet. But I kept getting specks hitting me in the face when firing them from an SR22. At one point, a speck of something hot made it past my glasses around the bridge of my nose and burnt me good at the tear duct.

I'll save the rest for the 10/22.

Carl N. Brown said:

Back in the 1960s, the Remington .22 LR with the golden gilding metal plate finish was the ammo to use for me. I was sorely disappointed with the decline in quality in the bulk pack in recent years--I guess to keep the price down they figured bargain plinkers would accept a few duds every carton. Or their machinery was wearing out. I am pleased to hear reports that Remington Golden Bullet quality control is up.

Adjusted for inflation, what cost a dollar in 1960 should cost about ten dollars today. Maybe the decline in quality of .22 ammo was the result of trying to hold an unrealistic price line.

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They were my rimfire ammo of choice years ago until the dud rate climbed to about 5% on average. Always figured that's why they packaged them in 525 round bulk packs?

I shoot them and personally have no problem with them overall. I just don't shoot them in semi-autos for the most part.

Your (Ops') precision is about typical at 50 yds with golden bullets.... 4 good hits in a 1/2 inch or so cluster and a flyer which pushes the group size out past 1". I'm okay with that for plinking and most things.

Yes, they do seem to have improved their quality overall in the last couple of years. Good to see you found some at Walmart. I have not in years.

The last Golden bullet I had I had a dud roughly once per cylinder with a Heritage Rough Rider .22 revolver. About half of those would work after taking the rounds out & turning them to a different place. All other rimfire ammo worked in it. It was too aggravating to fool with in my old model 60. I swapped to using Winchester rimfire & all my issues went away. I had heard it was supposed to be improved some time back but I didn't really care. If enough people say it works well I may try it again.

My Ruger SR22 loves 'em. I get just under 2" at 25 yards with 'em in the gun. They shoot decent in my other weapons, too. I've been quite happy with 'em, AND with Thunderbolts that I used to despise. I'm thinkin' Remington has improved their line of rimfire ammo.

Every gun has a favorite ammo. Winchester 333 round bulk won't function most of my autos, but I have this zamac POS that loves 'em and as weak as they are, they should be easy on that gun, a Phoenix Arms HP22. The main reason it feeds 'em is the joke for a recoil spring. That's also why normal HV ammo batters it senseless.

But, yeah, Remington ammo works fine for me.

And Golden Duds are about the worst.

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Leave them on the shelves!!! Before the shortage, I was going through five or six bulk packs a month with nary a complaint. Of course, my frame of reference is quite narrow, only three dozen guns.

Leave them on the shelves!!!

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Don't worry, I do. I've passed on a bunch of them during the great shortage. I did buy one box of 100. I couldn't bring myself to even try shooting them so I gave them away to someone glad to get them. I have no use for ammo as bad as what I got. I fully realize some people get good results from them which proves to me they are putting different ammo in the same box and selling it in different places. The stuff that shows up where I live is awful. It isn't just what I bought either. My friend bought quite a few before he realized what they were like. They didn't work well for him either. And both of us have quite a few .22's. It isn't the guns. It's the cartridges.

I am waiting for results to be verified but the newer 325 bulk packs are reported to be MUCH better quality than what was available only a year ago. A friend scored a couple boxes and found no duds in them. Last 525 bulk pack I purchased from WM had about one dud every 20 or so rounds. FYI I always figured (from personal purchase/shooting experience) that the QC of any brand of ammo produced for WM contracts was sub par compared to the same product available at the LGS. That said I also purchased the Winchester and Federal 525 bulk packs there and had ZERO duds from many thousands fired over the past years. Go figure.

Never cared for Rem's GB stuff. Promo ammo even worse.
Ran across a dozen rifles and almost as many handguns.........crap.

Will say I've had good luck with Yellowjackets, and they do add some pop when rimfiring chucks.

My guns have always liked them. They are a bargain bin plinking ammo. Too many people think that every round needs to be match grade.... Cans at 50y cant tell if I'm using bulk or premium ammo.

What is a "dud" ?

Is that a round that doesn't go off on the first try?

Or is it a round that doesn't fire after multiple tries?

Or is it a round that goes off first try.... but has noticeable impact difference?

Back in the day CCI Stingers would go BANG BANG BOOM POP! Quite the joke.
Have lost rams in IHMSA due to SuperX going "Pop" instead of Bang!

(used to buy by the case-run one lot # per season).

I'd call extreme variability a "dud" even if it went off first try.

This in "normal" rimfire ammo. Promo ammo is fine for kids that waste it into the backstops. Hell I dumped two bricks of Wildcats I discovered stashed from the Bill Clinton era. Yup, won't even let my kids run that crap.

$15 a brick, sold within an hr for $60 each.

I run CCI Minimags most of the time. Or SuperX. Actually over the yrs my pref has shifted toward the Minimags.

Only Remington ammo I lament is the bricks of CB's. Got my kid started shooting that stuff 20 yrs ago..........she was 3.

Pest control it worked well enough in my 541T HB, 572 BDL,1403 Int match and 141. Even went tunnel rat and popped a chuck under my shed at spittin distance with a Mk1. That the $300 groundhog (getting it out I messed up my back- doctor bill).

My experience with Rem. Golden has been, Bang BANG puff, Bang puff bang. It's been years since I've shot it, it was about the worst 22lr I have ever tried.