Remington "Golden Bullet" 22 ammo- unsatisfied!

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They are too large to fit in a 22lr chamber.

That happens if you have a match chamber on your rifle. It happens with more than Thunderbolts.

It would be quite easy for 10 rounds to be missed when they place the primer compound. There are hundreds of rounds moving through the machine as I understand it.
 
For the past dozen years or so, Remington 22lr ammo has been the world's worst. All the problems you outlined in your original post and several more have been commonplace. Remington has to have known about this for at least 11 years by now, and yet they've obviously done nothing to address this quality problem.

All we as consumers can do is to refuse to purchase this junk. :barf:
 
Federal 550 Round Value pack is the dirtiest ammo I've ever seen, but it's been at least mostly reliable for me. Maybe 1/50 FTF. I haven't used Golden Bullet in a long time, though.
 
I am bumping this so that hopefully people who are trying to stock up realize that companies that rush ammo through production may have an increased failure rate due to haste.
I have not purchased Remington Golden Bullet since this post and never will.
 
100% agree. I've tried golden bullet in the past and it was bad which turned me off them for quite awhile. They recently marketed them under a "new and improved" box. Since it was all i could find I gave it a shot..... I would honestly say its WORSE than before. Kinda ironic its the only .22 ammo left on the shelf! That says alot about it doesnt it?
 
I grabbed a few boxes of the "New Improved" as stated on the box Remington Golden Bullets.

I ran 300 plus through a 22 target pistol I have with no issues. I also ran 5 tubes of them through my Ancient Springfield 22 Semi Auto. Seems to me they have done a little quality control work on them.
 
Funny. I used to have a negative attitude about RGB. However, after the the election results, RGB was sometimes all that was available, so I purchased it. It's been great in my Ruger 10/22, SR-22, S&W 22a and Savage MKII. I've had some trouble with Federal Auto Match and Winchester. CCI has been very good.
 
I got burned on the old stuff. I stocked up with anything but RGB. I'm very happy to have found Blazer to be quite good, and a lot cheaper.
 
I purchased a bulk pack of the improved GB at Wally World, the 225 round bulk box , I was not holding out much hope for them, as I have had horrible results with them in the past (the older 550 round bulk packs)

I have around 60 rounds left over, and so far they've all functioned 100% in multiple guns, a CZ 452 Ultralux and Scout, a Marlin 39A, and an Ithaca 49, all fired on the first strike, no duds, and muzzle report seems consistent, the bullet seems to hit my spinner target with authority as well

IME, the new Goldens do actually appear to be improved, the only issue I can find with this box was a high number of loose/spinnable bullets, out of the 225, roughly 40 had tight bullets that would not spin, or grudgingly spun
 
I guess the only good thing about living in CA is the Remington bulk ammo is always GTG.


1 FTF is the worst I've ever gotten out of a 525 pack.
 
I loved and preferred Rem GB in bulk since i started with my Ruger 5.5 bull pistol. It shoots very well although dirty after a hundred rounds. I shot many small game with it and plinked on paper with tight groups. Right now i have two bulk boxes from Walmart bought two years ago . I havent shot much so i may have to test them again in my pistol and rifles. The one im liking right now are the Winchester Super X HP , Remington Thunderbolt and SUbsonic. They cycle well in my Walther G 22 bullpup, accurate too.
 
I've been using a good 10,000-20,000rds of the stuff every year for several years. At least a few thousand for at least 25yrs. Not one or two guns but over two dozen guns of different types. I never get more than a couple duds in a 550 or 525rd box. Federal bulk is also good stuff but I have a handful of autos that will not function on it, no matter how clean they are but run fine on Remington. They are also more than acceptably accurate. Worthy of note is that my CZ452 piles them into under a half inch at 50yds.

So leave it on the shelves, more for me. :)
 
I nearly bought a 1400 rounds tub yesterday, glad I didn't. It was the last .22's on the shelf too by the way.
 
The Rem Gold Bullet 22 is the only brand I swore off forever. Even if they are new and improved, the price just isn't worth the risk to me. I'll gladly buy Winchester, Blazer or Federal bulk boxes.
 
I am always pleased to see all the people who have sworn off GB's. Like Craig, there will be some available when I need them as a result. I still have GB's that are 20+ years old even though I have bought some of the bulk packs in the last couple of years. I treat the old stuff as something that I only shoot when I have a special purpose and they are generally very reliable. You have to understand that GB's used to be premium regular production ammo produced by Remington and the Thunderbolts were something less. I use bulk packs for "family" plinking. I found the "New and Improved" to be exactly that as compared to recent pre-new & improved production.
 
evan price said:
I have not purchased Remington Golden Bullet since this post and never will.

That's your loss then and I think you're doing a disservice to members here. Your experience was in 2010 and yet Remington improved GB drastically in 2011 to the extent that misfires were reduced to such a low rate of occurrence that if you have a misfire you should take a good look at your pistol or rifle. I have more than 10,000 GBs made in 2011 and have shot a bunch without a single misfire, not something I can claim for the CCI that I have.
 
Its not the greatest ammo, i got lots of duds with them,i still have 1500 rounds, when they are gone, i wont buy it any more....
 
1858 said:
That's your loss then and I think you're doing a disservice to members here. Your experience was in 2010 and yet Remington improved GB drastically in 2011 to the extent that misfires were reduced to such a low rate of occurrence that if you have a misfire you should take a good look at your pistol or rifle. I have more than 10,000 GBs made in 2011 and have shot a bunch without a single misfire, not something I can claim for the CCI that I have.

Oddly, CCI Blazer 22s have never given me more than one misfire in a bulk box. Federal bulk packs have a few. The Winchester Xperts didn't have one dud in the two boxes I shot recently.

Remington may be new and improved and better, true. I don't see the need to take the chance when I stocked up on Federal and CCI after that fiasco.

I bumped this post for the express reason to warn people again that when the ammo companies rush to fill depleted supply lines there may very well be problems again.

Other than the RGB problems I had, I saw a lot of people who had problems with other ammo- WWB with flipped primers, Blazer with sideways primers and scraped bullets, Tula with missing primers, Federals with brass pinched under the bullet, Winchesters with bad brass...etc.

WHen the factories are pushing to get out product as fast as possible more defects can slip through. I would be cautious about restocking an ammo hoard with ammo produced during a mad rush.
 
when the ammo companies rush to fill depleted supply lines there may very well be problems again.
Got any evidence that this is going on??? No, because there is none. There is no reason for them to ramp up production for a temporary situation. They don't produce ammo any faster because panic buyers are doing their thing.

I watched a YouTube video of a guy with a Ruger MK-series deriding Thunderbolts. Complaining that they leaded his bore terribly. Some ignorant comments about bullet lube throw in. He warned everybody to never use Remington ammo. I was surprised because I had used a lot of the stuff in the past. So I went to the local CO-OP and bought a few boxes. Took them home, ran 300rds through my own 22/45 as fast as I could. There was not a single malfunction and the bore was not leaded. The moral of this story is, don't believe all the crap you read on the internet. A lot of people are just repeating what they've heard. Every rimfire is a law unto itself. My advice would be to try everything you can to find what yours likes. It might tell you it likes GB's.
 
I switched to CCI Blazers a few years ago, because of the same issue. I was lucky, I bought 5000 rounds the day before ammo went through the roof. While I can go through this in 1.5-2 months, I have been trying not to go through as many until supply catches up to demand.
 
CraigC said:
Got any evidence that this is going on??? No, because there is none. There is no reason for them to ramp up production for a temporary situation. They don't produce ammo any faster because panic buyers are doing their thing.

Exactly!! When you're running at capacity there's no where to go and quality standards have to be met regardless of supply and demand. If the product isn't good enough it doesn't leave the plant. Some bad product will get through but there's no way that the QC folks will start looking the other way just to meet demand ... ain't gonna happen!!
 
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