Done with Remington Golden 22lr

Funny, I have shot my way through one case of 6250 and am halfway through another
The only gun that has an issue with this ammo is a Ruger 10/22, but then that POS gun has trouble with anything anyway. My Marlin 60, MK II, H&R, and other 22s have had no issues
 
Where does Rem make Ammo?

Shooters:
So given the wide variety of experiences with Remington rim fire ammo I wonder if there is a quality control problem in some lines or plants and not others. Does anyone know where Rem makes their ammo and if there is more than one manufacturing location?
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Prof Young
 
Its always been a good round for me. I went to the Golden about 15- 20 yrs ago, after frustrating performance with others and the Rem Golden seemed more reliable.

I have seemed to notice a bit of a slip since the ammo crunch in 2008-2009. Heck, the Rem GB was sold out in a lot of places, now its resurfaced. The recent post 2008 ammo does seem a bit off, but I'm still buying. My Savage MkII TR actually shoots quite well w/ it.
 
Loanoak

NOt sure I've got the spelling right, but for a while I was back and forth in Arkansas, and there was a big Rem ammo plant off I-40 in Loanok, Lonoke, ????
 
So given the wide variety of experiences with Remington rim fire ammo I wonder if there is a quality control problem in some lines or plants and not others.
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If you search threads on this very subject, I think you'll agree that it is a regional thing. As I said, here the Federal brown 550 box is crap. Other parts of the country claim it is the best. (in bulk) I have found no fault in Rem GBs, yet others, well, you know the rest. Winchester is also suspect in bulk, though I've had no issue with those, either.

Again, I'm talking only bulk, which I'm sure are factory seconds. The individual boxed 10 pack bricks of any brand have yet to give me any trouble.
 
I decided to stop worrying about this. I have switched all my .22lr purchases to CCI minimag. I've relegated the remaining few hundred rounds of various .22 ammo to my "last resort" stash.

I can get min mags for less than 7 cents a round at WalMart. I'm fine with that. Federal or Winchester bricks go about 4 cents a round here. It's worth it to me. No duds and the CCI works in every .22 I have. Even the picky ones.
 
No duds and the CCI works in every .22 I have. Even the picky ones.
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I'm with lawnboy. I've fired many cases of CCI standard velocity without a problem, although I have seen occasional rounds with more wax on the bullets.

Out of curiosity, I just tried cci.com. It didn't go anywhere, so I tried an on-line encyclopedia:

Founded by Dick Speer (brother of Vernon Speer, who founded Speer Bullets) in the early 1950s, CCI is now a subsidiary of Alliant Techsystems,[1] and currently employs approximately 800 people.[2] CCI was once known as the Speer Ammunition Company - the Speer name was associated with bullet manufacturing.
It was once a subsidiary of Omark Industries with Speer Bullets, RCBS (formerly the Rock Chuck Bullet Swage company), and Outers.
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The quality is explained.
 
I've shot 4-5 boxes of the 550 round Remington loose bulk packs with my CZ 452 and probably have had less than 10 'duds' that didn't fire. All fired on 2nd shots. Maybe 5 mangled or misshapen rounds that I didn't try to fire.
 
The lessor reliability of the bulk Remmington 22lr round is not a
new issue. In fact, it has been discussed on many, many threads.
It is not a "regional" issue. Check out the AMMO threads on
Rimfire Central Forum if you need some convincing. Remmington has
done/does a good deal very well-- bulk Golden 22lr is not one of them.

If I were Remmington I'd get out of the bulk 22lr business. Just drop
the round. Do what you can do at a high level. Who knows, maybe
Remmington is making big bucks ($) on the Golden 22lr.

Just my .02 David :)
 
Again, I'm talking only bulk, which I'm sure are factory seconds.
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Doubtful as the potential liability is too great to risk. More likely is the fact that this stuff is cranked out in huge volumes at blazing speed in order to keep costs and pricing down. Want match ammo? Buy Eley and pay for it.

My Remington ammo cost me a whopping 1.5 cents per round. For its intended usage - plinking - it does a great job for the cost
 
The lessor reliability of the bulk Remmington 22lr round is not a
new issue. In fact, it has been discussed on many, many threads.
It is not a "regional" issue. Check out the AMMO threads on
Rimfire Central Forum if you need some convincing.
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Respectfully, I do need some convincing. I use it regularly and have very few issues. I am a member of Rimfire Central and even if there were ten billion threads dedicated to how bad RGB is at that forum, it doesn't change my experince in the slightest

It would be wonderful indeed if I could expect no issues at all with any brand of .22 I buy but rimfire is not a notably reliable round. CCI does a good job, as do others, but the nature of the beast is something that I accept- less than 100% reliability. I can live with one dud in 100 rounds when I go plinking, especially at the price I pay for RGB. If I needed 100% reliability, well, I wouldn't be selecting a .22 rimfire
 
From .22s to .38 golden sabers, I HATE Remington ammunition. All Remington ammunition I have ever bought has burned extremely dirty and the accuracy from round to round is very inconsistent. They were the only rounds that wouldn't cycle in my henry .22 lever action.

Also The .38+p golden sabers are crap for what you pay for them. To pass those off as premium self defense rounds and charge as much as everyone else is a joke. The bullets are seated at different depths from round to round, and during expansion testing out of 25 Golden Sabers only 2 or 3 expanded reliably where every single Gold Dot and Hornandy Critical Defense expanded fine.
 
i truly agree with your statement. had myself sum remington golden bullet ammo and i was shooting it out of my Advantage Arms 22lr conversion kit on my glock 19 and boy i'd tell ya i had more duds with that ammo than any 22lr ammo brand.

i was so ticked off with all the duds that i failed to think straight and out right sold the conversion kit because i felt at the time that it was a p.o.s till i used the ammo on another 22 of mine with same results. it was THEN that i used my common sense and used sum other brand of 22lr and realized it was the crummy golden bullet ammo causing the problems.

quality control on remington 22lr in my opinion has gone down the drain
 
Thanks all for the info,I;ll avoid the Remington 22 stuff,money and headache saved.Probably do the CCI 40 grn round nose thing.
 
The lessor reliability of the bulk Remmington 22lr round is not a
new issue. In fact, it has been discussed on many, many threads.
It is not a "regional" issue. Check out the AMMO threads on
Rimfire Central Forum if you need some convincing.
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Respectfully, I do need some convincing. I use it regularly and have very few issues. I am a member of Rimfire Central and even if there were ten billion threads dedicated to how bad RGB is at that forum, it doesn't change my experince in the slightest
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Yup, same here.

How would you explain the high praise for Federal's bulk 550 pack when they have been absolute crap for me? And that was 3 packs bought at 3 different times and stored. And the fact that I have never yet had a problem with this threads subject ammo and Chris has had little if any?
 
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