Remington Thunderbolt .22LR

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Paul Morrison

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Is it just me or are these a pile of crap?

After about 200 rounds the lips on my mags were BLACK with dirt. (normally they're a little dirty, but nothing like this). Half the casings had a thick coating of dirty soot on them.

Out of 250 fired, I had 5 duds.

I'm not impressed.
 
absolute garbage for mw as well, about as predictable as lightning so they are appropriately named. The box I bought half were supersonic and the other half were sub. You are bang on with the dirty too! my barrell looked like it was full of crap when I was done shooting.

Pretty much anything is better than this stuff and cheaper too!
 
aric84 said:
absolute garbage for mw as well, about as predictable as lightning so they are appropriately named.
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taffman said:
They are appropiately named after lightning, because they never strike twice in the same place.
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I was going to point out how this is a rather fave topic for this forum, but these two quotes make the thread "worth it" after all....;)
 
Yeah, they aren't great. My Remington 597 hates them. Shot about 100 rounds and had about 30 duds. Those duds still work in all my other .22's though.
 
They're ok. Not great but for the price ($13 - before the increase last year), I can't complain. Less duds per brick than Federal AE brand.

The bricks I bought 18 years ago are still better and have yet to find even one dud in those. Sadly, only two of those bricks left. :(
 
I've found that Remington ammo is a total waste of time and money. If something shoots better and a is little more expensive, pony up the $5 or so extra for a brick and have something that works well 'consistently' and runs cleaner. Federal or CCI are both good bets.
 
Not really, I took her appart to clean her last year, I think .... Average cleaning is somewhere around each 1500 rounds fired or when she starts to act up, whichever comes first. A quick squirt of CLP thru the ejection port and/or mag well is what she usually gets before going to the range.

cyclone said:
Do you have to clean the semi often, then? :redface:
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remington is right up there with that heavy russian stuff ( i forget the name) and the aquila stuff we used to get years ago- think it was dipped in candlewax as tere was always a shaving of the stuff collecting on the bolt head- back then it was coniderably dead cheap- 2 boxes for a buck or less- and we were getting a nickel a tail, so if you walked down to the ag office and were a good enough shot, you actually made money on the deal- take the bus down and you lost money but still had a good time
 
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