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by JimT, Texas, Wednesday, July 09, 2025, 14:56 (2 days ago)

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Out of one box of 50 ... these wouldn't fire. I had 4 others that fired after I rotated them. One that I had to rotate twice.

These .. no bueno.

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by Jared, Wednesday, July 09, 2025, 21:13 (2 days ago) @ JimT

That is abnormally bad in the era of subpar rimfire ammo.

That’s impressive!

by Slow Hand ⌂ @, Indiana, Thursday, July 10, 2025, 04:10 (1 day, 19 hours, 12 min. ago) @ JimT

You have to work hard to get something that bad out of something so common!

I think that is worse than my buddies experience with Remington bulk packs years ago. I had a bulk pack of Federal, back in the glory days when it was 550 rounds. He had the Remingtons, Golden Bullet, I think? We were out for a day of plinking and blasting and he had probably a 20% misfire rate. All in semi autos if I remember, so even more annoying. At first, he tried to rotate them and refine but after several misfires, he just wanted to get rid of the ammo and would just rack another round into the chamber. He swore never to buy that ammo again and I have pretty much stuck with various flavors of Federal bulk pack since then!

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by JimT, Texas, Thursday, July 10, 2025, 08:46 (1 day, 14 hours, 36 min. ago) @ Slow Hand

1100 rounds. Have shot most of it up with nary a bad one.

I have had good success with the Remington Golden Bullets the last few years. I just picked up 3100 rounds at 6 cents a round. WalMart in Oklahoma had them and I bought everything that was in store.

Also had good success with Aquila. I buy those when I find them on sale.

I bought a bunch of Winchester in their 333 round packs. Had some duds every once in awhile. Have not been impressed by them.

Best shooting stuff was some old SUPER X from the 1950's. A friend's husband passed away and she sold me all his .22 ammo. The 1950's stuff was really good ... accurate ... consistent .. no issues.

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by JohnKDM, Thursday, July 10, 2025, 18:31 (1 day, 4 hours, 51 min. ago) @ JimT

being a Victim of My Experiences, I don't change as easily. Once bitten, twice shy.

I go through piles of 22lr.

I remember TerryM and I would debate 22 ammo quality; he would champion Winchester and I would praise CCI. Not the serious and expensive target ammo, just the usual suspects. Likely his experience with Winchester was with the older ammo as Jim describes.

Remington was just plain garbage, in my experience. Boge brought a bunch of it to the Holiday many years ago and what he had was bad, very bad - lots of misfires and miserable accuracy. Later, Jeff kept asking me to try the new Remington, saying they had fixed their issues. I never could bring myself to do that, sticking with CCI. (see the Victim comment above)

Federal bulk was pretty good until their quality became erratic and I quit buying their plinking ammo. CCI remained my primary, both Mini-Mags and SV.

Then a few years ago I bought a case of CCI SV that was not up to the usual standards of accuracy to which I was accustomed. Every case before, and since, has been fine.

Bought several cases of Aguila when it first started appearing from their new factory in Mexico as it was cheap and I wanted to try it. It works rather well in some of my 22s. Not so cheap anymore which I interpret as a positive sign as to their quality.

Wolf was (is?) good, but isn't cheap these days. One of my M52s really likes it, so I have a case saved back.

Bryan suggested SK Pistol Match and it works well in my B14r, but that is getting out of the generic category.

With 22lr ammo, it really is like a box of chocolates. If you find a lot that works and meets your criteria for accuracy, buy as much as you can.

Jeff got me started on the Remington Golden Bullets

by JimT, Texas, Thursday, July 10, 2025, 20:19 (1 day, 3 hours, 3 min. ago) @ JohnKDM

The Bersa .22 would not function reliably on anything else. Seriously. I tried a lot of ammo in it. Only the Remingtons would work reliably every time. I finally worked on it for a month, changing recoil springs, cutting recoil springs, until I got it where it would run on anything. Then my daughter took it away from me and she uses it all the time.

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Jeff got me started on the Remington Golden Bullets

by JohnKDM, Thursday, July 10, 2025, 22:22 (1 day, 1 hours, 0 min. ago) @ JimT

I believe you!

Glad to hear it works and that a family member called DIBS!

That’s impressive!

by DMann, Thursday, July 10, 2025, 09:00 (1 day, 14 hours, 22 min. ago) @ Slow Hand

Ditto on the Remingtons - used to get them from the Hunter Ed guys by the 100s - 20-ish % failure was about right.

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