Updated: 10-6-17 REMINGTON .22LR SUCKS WORSE THAN I EVER IMAGINED. AVOID ANY LOT OF IT.
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AND NO, I HAVE NEVER HEARD A SINGLE WORD BACK AFTER FILING MY INTERNET SYSTEM PROBLEM AND IT BEING ACKNOWLEDGED. BIG SILENCE FROM BIG GREEN.
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Today:
Either to be fair or out of scientific inquiry, I found different lot numbered 100pak plastic boxes of Remington Golden Bullets 40RNHS in a couple stores. I ended up with the original lot that blew the case above and three other lot numbers. You should note Remington is not NOT N O T proud of their lot numbers. They stamp them on the end paper tab of the plastic paper sticky such that they are invisible. With a perfect light, you can make out some numbers with a magnifying glass. I had three new lot numbers.
Since I know the chamber in my Ruger above is tight, there was no point in using it. I picked instead an Advantage Arms Glock 22-.22LR kit and a Beretta M9-.22. I stripped, cleaned, lubed, and Moly'ed the chambers of both.
With CCI MiniMags or Blazer, the AA kit is about 98%. The Beretta had yet to malfunction with CCI MiniMags or Blazer. Both over last summer and spring had run some Remington 100paks nearly perfect. So I call that a baseline.
As I loaded the magazines with the Remington Golden Bullets, 40RNHS, I looked at ever round.
-Those with lead smeared back from the bullet onto the case were discarded.
Rounds loaded into the magazines had variously when inspected:
a)-Loose bullets
b)-Lumps, ridges, disfigured, sharp edged portions of the kneerling in the side of the Golden Bullets.
c)-The impression that by finger feel some bullets perfectly formed were too fat, larger than the straight wall case.
I ended up shooting roughly 200 rounds doing 7 and 15 yard failure drills as fast as my moderate skills allowed. The result was that about 1 round in 10 had some malfunction associated with it. Yeah, 1 in 10 after selecting out the few smeared lead obvious ones. Each gun ran about the first 30 rounds roughly trouble free. With the slightest debris in the chambers, it went to Heaven, namely:
1)-The main one was the bullets were too fat to enter the chamber and deadened the striker/firing pin falls thus not firing.
1A)---I give Remington primer quality credit. Every round not going off was rotated 180 degrees and firmly seated. Every single round fired.
2)-The recoil impulse and noise were variable resulting in some double feeds against an empty case, against a partly seated case, failures to eject.
3)-No rounds stuck fully chambered after firing as the moly is too slippery and helps keep the chamber crap free. I don't usually do this, but it was a last resort for testing.
My guess is that the stuff fired in a revolver would be nearly perfect if you seated the rounds fully.
Photos: 7 and 15 yard IPSC targets:
For grins, I fired 30 rounds of CCI MiniMag through each gun after I finished the Remington. 100% OK.
Gotta practice more with my revolvers.