I didn't bother viewing the video because of it's length. However, I do hope that Remington has in fact returned to producing quality ammo but some time back, maybe as long as twenty years now, I bought some bulk Remington GB's and was terribly disappointed in the quality of the product. I did use the remainder of that bulk box but bought no more. I recall that they left copious amounts of unburnt powder (gold colored flakes as I recall now) and there were failure to fire problems.

I am partial to CCI rimfire products now and have been for years because of quality and performance.

That said, what occurred two decades ago may have little bearing on today's Remington products and it can only be good for the rimfire community if more quality ammo is available.

 

I stocked up on Remington 525 bulk packs when they were around $10.00 each. Still have about 25 left. I’ve never had any issues with it. Golden HP has taken plenty of squirrels and rabbits.

 

There was hope of better quality. From my understanding at the range, there is not. Same issues with duds and fliers.

 

Looking at those groups it's still crap

 

It isn't match ammo, but it's been fine for my plinking. I started picking up the 1400 rd buckets when everyone on this forum started crying about FTFs. Funny how my guns just gobble it up without those issues.

 

I've never had the ftf issues with golden bullets either. Accuracy was OK but not up to par with other ammo.

 

Yes.........the bad reputation here may simply be that the accuracy standards here are very VERY high.

Out in the real world it's acceptable ammo.........in the rarefied air of Rimfire Central.........it has problems.

 

Dear Rocinante, I agree with your comments, I feel or felt way about the silver bullets and the horse riders. I have used the Winchester 22 long rifle
in the red plastic box high energy segmented bullets, with no ftf's, and when they first come with Winchester power points in the 80's I have bought cases for $125.00 ,from a dealer in Tennessee. They were so good using those in rifle matches , and no misfires .I bought a case in the 90's and was having 3 or 4 ftf's per 50. I think they could do better if they wanted to. Well we could better. I haven't seen any of those ww power points , with kind of box , other what i have . I can send a pic but dont how to send to rfc. I would be up soup creek with out a cracker if I had something to sell. I can send on their cell phone. I hope this helps. Thanks Buck.

 

So far my experience with The New Remington Rimfire Ammo has been very good. At one time I swore off Remington rimfire ammo because of all the squibs and fail to fires, it was so bad at one time it wasn’t even funny. In a 555 box I would have upwards of 50 duds multiples of squibs and burned so dirty I finally gave it up. It didn’t matter what line/brand it was, if it said Remington on the box and it was rimfire I just wouldn’t shoot it.
The thunderbolts were the worst as they would lead up a barrel and do it quick. To me the worst part was cleaning the gun after it’s use but the squibs got so bad it became way to much work to use the junk.

since then I have became somewhat of an ammo snob. I do keep a fare stash of high/hyper velocity fodder in my inventory, today I only buy 40 grain ammo in .22LR. With that said and keeping to that I can say from recent experience comparing to cci ammo the Remington Golden Bullets 100 round square box 40 grain to the ear sounds just as consistent and print on target third to ccimm and federal auto match. Remington Thunder Bolts 500 round lead 40 grain is more on par with type bulk box/pack ammo and second to Federal Auto Match. The Thunder Bolts have a few more to the ear under charged rounds than the auto match does and you can really hear the difference if using a suppressed rifle. I have so far had no leading issues with the new ThunderBolts that I have noticed yet.

From my experiences with the new manufacturer Remington Ammo in over all quality are just inside the preferred circle so if I need some ammo and see it on the shelf I will now buy it. My circle of domestic ammo is cci made/federal made/Remington made in that order. I won’t buy any other domestic ammo.

as far as comparing to any other it’s equivalent to or slightly better than Aguila ammo tomorrow the Aquila ammo my be better. I have a 500 box on my back porch that’s been in the 100+ degree heat and seem to not affect it. I occasionally will walk out with one of my single shot target style open sighted rifles and plink steel plates using that 500 box. I have had no squibs and a 99.99% ignition rate or a 00.01% dud rate and maybe a 00.01% second strike to fire rate and zero failures of the more pricey 100 round boxes of Goldie’s.

Your opinions and experiences may vary.

 

During the great ammo shortage, I bought a couple buckets of Golden Bullets. They work fine in my M&P15-22. I pull the trigger, they go "bang!", and the metal target goes "ting!" I wouldn't use them for bullseye but they work for what I bought them to do.

 

I never used Rem Golden Bullets to shoot groups, so I have no input on comparisons to what I use at the range. For me, the price of RGB's was always comparable to other bulk plinker ammo, so in the past there have been times that I purchased RGB's if they were least expensive among what was available. Out-in-the-woods-plinking performance and reliability was acceptable, but they were consistently the filthiest ammo ever, by a good margin. For that reason, I haven't purchased RGB's in years, which was never any sort of sacrifice because other comparably priced and equal or better (as in, cleaner) bulk plinking ammo has been available when needed. Maybe it's a new day for the RGB's and time for a new looksee?

 

So far this year I gone through 5-6 of the 1400 round buckets, not a single dud, not the cleanest ammo, but I’m cleaning anyways

 

So far this year I gone through 5-6 of the 1400 round buckets,

I wish that I had the time to go through five or six buckets of bullets.

 

I've never had much issues with Remington golden hollow points.
They shoot good in a few of my rifles..
My NYLON 66 just LOVES. them.
And my Dad's Remington speed master really likes them.
Must be a Remington thing ?
My marlins all seem to do good with them too.
But the 66 is 👑 king..

 

Friends don't let friends shoot Remington Golden Coal burners! Unless you really enjoy cleaning all thse flakes out of your gun. They provide hours of cleaning entertainment for those enjoy cleaning more than shooting 😀

 

I used cheap 5.7 ammo one time and my goodness was the flakes hard on my ruger

 

Remington put out a marketing video a couple months ago on how they make rimfire. It's interesting. It looks like they're definitely trying to up their game and listen to customers. I think they could improve the primer making process though.

 

The more people that hate them the easier it is to find them. I never had problems.

 

I have no love/ hate relations with the Golden bullet they shoot fine no duds in several of my firearms then in some guns they seem to be a problem I actually think its the pistol or rifle mechanisms that just do no work with them. example:

In a Ruger LCP II 22 they just don't function, in a Ruger SR 22 they function great and seem to work in most bolt actions, I got 2 10/22s one functions fine with Golden the other rifle is jamamatic. Go figure!

 

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I have a few 525 boxes I need to dig out, didn't have my 10/22s at the time and not sure I remember how they were in a MKIV or Buckmark.

I also wound up with a few tubes of CCI Real Tree clean - coated 22lrs that weren't a good choice for the pistols, need to try them in a 10/22.
Don't know what I was thinking with buying those.

Worst I've found yet was the Winchester Super X 22lr. Seemed like a dud every 10 rounds or so in my pistols.

Recently ran across a few buckets of Federal BYOB 22lr, 1100 count I think and were .07/rnd, I think those are a great buy I just got two buckets.
Should have bought more as they be gone when I went back to same place to buy two more!

 

For informal fun shooting, plinking, teaching children and new shooters, varmint control and small game the "new" Golden Bullets would be acceptable. That's the market Remington is targeting and they'll do well in that market. Still, it's frustrating that an American manufacturer ignores the precision ammo market. Money that's going overseas could be kept right here if a truly precision .22LR cartridge was made in the USA.

 

We hosted a "Ladies Day" event at our club a week ago and had a bunch of new Remington Golden Bullets that were donated for the event.

I was on the Hand-gun line; not sure how they worked in the rifles, but for us they were 'bad' Failures to fire, and feed were frequent; accuracy was shot-gun like, and we could hear distinct differences in power from some bullets. Also the lead was lose in the brass in a good portion of them. So frustrating for first time shooters, some of us dipped into our own stocks of other ammo to improve their experience. I suggested pitching them in the fire pit for fun; I think they would work ok in that application.

Remington .17 HMR is excellent, their .22 LR ammo is bad.

 

We hosted a "Ladies Day" event at our club a week ago and had a bunch of new Remington Golden Bullets that were donated for the event.

I was on the Hand-gun line; not sure how they worked in the rifles, but for us they were Failures to fire, and feed were frequent; accuracy was shot-gun like, and we could hear distinct differences in power from some bullets. Also the lead was lose in the brass in a good portion of them. So frustrating for first time shooters, some of us dipped into our own stocks of other ammo to improve their experience. I suggested pitching them in the fire pit for fun; I think they would work ok in that application.

Remington .17 HMR is excellent, their .22 LR ammo is bad

Sounds like pre bankruptcy ammo that people like me complain about and caused me to swear off Remington ammo.

 

I've wanted to try some, but I only ever see them in bulk packs at Walmart and I would rather buy a 50-100 pack for testing before buying several hundred rounds.

 

It has been so many years since I put filthy Golden Bowellets in any of my guns that I completely forgot about the loose spinny bullets in the cartridge cases. Some of the Golden Suppositories would wobble to and fro in the case like those inflatable punching bags we used to play with when we were kids.
Hey, can I borrow anyone else's gun to shoot Remmy-Flake-Makers? I want to post pics of the unburned flakes. If you put them under magnification you will discover that no two Remmy Flakes are the same 🤣

 

And the new stuff is worlds apart from the old stuff, the new stuff while not SK or Lapua quality, what I shot of the new stuff, it’s very good

 

I'm just finishing a bucket bought last year. It's fine in my lever guns for ringing steel, cycles in the 10/22s but fails to cycle my buckmark and has a 3-5% ftf rate in my bolt action Remington CZ and Savage - Anschutz. Go figure???? Blazer, CCI, Aguilar and Tac-22 works in all of them.

 

There is no such thing as "clean" .22rf. It's a canard, same as "clean" burning powders for .410. To believe otherwise is to admit to not shooting much. Or maybe someone cleans your autoloaders for you.

There are relative differences tho. GBs leave more carbon/unburned powder/wax/Pb than Minimags IME. Just slightly dirtier than Blazer.

New mfg GBs run finicky autos least as well as minimags, which kinda surprised me. Chronograph showed GBs were considerably faster than Minimag HPs and Blazer. Blazer and Minimags are more accurate, but prefer the hotter GB for pistol classes. More resistant to limp-wristing.

Unless we're working on malfunction drills. Then Fed bulk 800 pack gets the nod. Can't get an auto through even one mag without a stoppage.

 

In the past I have had numerous problems with Golden Bullets but lately I have used 3 1400 buckets and 100 round pack and had good luck.
I have 3 10/22's now, a Bergara BMR, Springfield 2020 and a Browning Buckmark pistol and the Rem GB ammo has worked well in all.
It is not target ammo but stays within an inch for 10 round groups at 50 yards for me if I do what I am supposed to.
Surprised me the first time I used it this year.

 

It is not target ammo but stays within an inch for 10 round groups at 50 yards for me if I do what I am supposed to.

Bravo.

This level of accuracy is perfectly acceptable for 95% of rimfire shooters.

They can hit a squirrel or rabbit in the head most of the time. That's all that they need.

When you read here on RFC you could get the idea that most people shoot at paper targets......... and break into cold sweats of paralyzing anxiety about little nicks and dents on the nose of their bullets.

Things are quite different in the real world.

Thus Remington continues to profit even as a few radicals foam at the mouth.