Remington Golden Bullet

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Mike38

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Has Remington come to their senses and finally stepped it up and started making a decent bulk pack .22LR round? Seems so. Their Thunderbolt and it's problems ruined me on Remington ammo. I had at least a 10% failure to fire on Thunderbolt, so I quit buying all Remington ammo, even quit buying center fire. I bought 3 boxes (525 count bulk pack) of Golden Bullet three weeks ago because it's all I could find. At the time I had my doubts, figuring that I just threw away $80. Yesterday I finished up the first box of 525. Only one failure to fire. Shot in a Ruger 22/45 and two different 10/22s and only one failure. That's not bad at all. Maybe I'll give Remington another chance. Maybe.....

Anyhow, just thought I'd share this to let others know, if it's all you can get, Remington Golden Bullet .22LR works, or at least it did for me.
 
Their Thunderbolt and it's problems ruined me on Remington ammo.
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Thunderbolt is many times worse than Golden Bullet. If you don't have a .22 LR revolver, I'd skip the stuff even if it is the only ammunition available.
 
I can't recall ever using Thunderbolt, but I have never had an issue with Remington Golden Bullet. Come to think of it, I can only recall a couple failures to fire that I blamed on ammunition in my life from any ammunition.
 
Come to think of it, I can only recall a couple failures to fire that I blamed on ammunition in my life from any ammunition.
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I have been paying very close attention to failures of .22LR ammo lately. I have shot tens of thousands of rounds of CCI Standard Velocity in my life time, and do not recall one failure to fire. Same goes for Federal Gold Medal Target.

The Federal bulk pack stuff found at WalMart usually gives me 3 to 5 failure to fire per box. Not bad for bulk pack stuff. But accuracy is questionable in all my .22s.

Winchester X-Pert bulk pack is very good. Maybe one failure per 1000 rounds. It is very accurate in my Baikal target pistols. Very accurate. Good in my Ruger 22/45 also. But it is a jam-o-matic in my 10/22 rifles.

Remington Thunderbolt is just plain junk in all nine of my .22s. Dirty, failure to fire, failure to extract because of occasional low powder charges. Accuracy was terrible. Never again.

I was surprised at that Remington Golden Bullet bulk pack stuff. A little on the dirty side, but preformed well for me. Might just replace the Federal bulk pack I normally use. Worth a try if it's all you can find.
 
Remington Goldens are pure junk in my mind. Have never had anywhere near as many failures with any other rim fire ammo. Thunderbolts aren't much better.
 
Golden Bullets are good to go. My Advantage Arms 22LR Glock 19 conversion is spec'd for them & my K22 loves them.
 
Got a Remington 597 that likes all lead .22 including Thunderbolts but does NOT like Federal copper washed at all. Poor accuracy.

Shrug.

Always look upon it as a (fun) challenge to find out what ammo a new .22 likes.

Question for the OP. The Remington Golden that failed to fire, did you try them again and if you did, did they fail to fire again?
 
They work in everything I have except my wife's Ruger Single Ten. Locks the cylinder down. I don't recall any problems with misfires over the years.
 
Question for the OP. The Remington Golden that failed to fire, did you try them again and if you did, did they fail to fire again?
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The one of 525 that failed worked after reloading it. I have two more boxes of these Golden Bullets (1050 more rounds) bought at the same time, same lot. So I expect similar results. They will be gone in a couple months, so I hope I find something to keep the supply up.
 
I use the Golden as a standard in most of my .22 LR testing & just don't get the failure rate that others do.

Maybe a couple misfires in several years, and I'm still using up a mix of old along with getting into a new bucket for the last go-round.

Denis
 
Went thru a 525 pac of "golden bullets" last week when my son had some friends home from college. Shot from a 10/77, a pump Remington and a Browning Buckmark, I think we had one failure to fire. Pretty much surprise the 'ell outta me.
 
Not failing to fire is a good thing - but how do they group? Are they consistent in velocity? Doesn't do much good to go bang if they don't hit the target.
 
Not failing to fire is a good thing - but how do they group? Are they consistent in velocity? Doesn't do much good to go bang if they don't hit the target.
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My son's group of friends consisted of 4 other guys and three girls. All but one of the guys and my son were not that familiar with firearms. As a matter of fact, two outta the three girls had never shot a gun before. Still most everyone was able to consistently hit a bowling pin @ 50 yards with the rifles and occasionally with the Buckmark. That was good enough for them. To most, emptying a 10 round mag from either auto-loader or the 15 rounds from the pump as fast as possible while watching the pin jump with an occasional hit was more than they expected from themselves. Me, I just watched and enjoyed watching them enjoying. Kinda what bulk-pac .22 ammo is all about.


BTW.......by the end of the day the girls were shooting the .460 also.
 
It also depends on your firearm. Each has its own preference. My buckmarks love CCIs, Federal grey box, and Remington golden bullet. They will jam repeatedly with Winchester and fed automatch.

EDIT: when the wife and I were shooting Rugers many years ago, the target model preferred golden bullets and the regular model actually preferred the Remington Thunderbolts.
 
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^^^ My Ruger MkII shoots Golden Bullets in patterns rather than groups, but my S&W M18 shoots them almost as well as expensive European target ammo. Furthermore, they seem to be consistently manufactured on the small side, so they're easy to load into the notoriously tight S&W chambers. Golden Bullets almost always accompany my M18 to the range, if only for warmup.

.22's are categorically fussy about ammo and IMHO it's unwise to totally write off any particular .22 load under all circumstances, although I'll admit that I hesitate to use Chunderbolts in anything due to how dirty they shoot.
 
I use it as a standard in testing BECAUSE it typically groups well.
It's come out as the top load more than once.
Velocities are as consistent as most other loads I use.
Denis
 
good enough

The Golden Bullet is typically my .22lr bulk ammo of choice.....reliable and groups fairly well out of a variety of rifles. Not match ammo, and not 100% reliable, but more so than W-W and Thunderbolt that I have tried.

CCI mini's seem a bit more accurate and reliable, but the price is higher and not worth the extra to me.

But......I am still having trouble finding .22 lr ammo of any kind,and when I do, its jacked up higher than I will pay. Luckily, when we went through this .22 crises a few years back the first time, I stocked up a box or so at a time at my convenience, and have not really been hurt by this recent dirge.
 
Remington golden bullet hollow points are my go to small game round as well as CCI mini mag hollow point . I do not have all the fail to fire that so many folks talk about . I cant remember any one I know that has excessive failure to fire except from some cheap Winchester .22 lr and some federals .
 
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