Remington bucket of bullets=fail

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Twas a sad day for me yesterday......though I had fun :p I took my Norinco M93 out to play with, and to feed it I took a few hundred out of a Remington Bucket of Bullets that I had around. It was going well, but I could tell that the velocity was all over the map with these things. One case got stuck in the chamber and failed to extract, and when I pulled it out, I noticed that the case had split. I continued to fire, getting through about another 5 mags full, when all of a sudden a shot sounded really loud, and upon ejection sprayed my hand with chunks of hot material.
I gave the gun a good check over, and it seemed fine, so I continued to shoot. After this, my slide would stay open about every second mag, then, suddenly, stuck half open, refusing to close.
I was really hoping to keep this little gem, but with a broken slide stop, and no replacement parts, I'm going to have to sell it off as scrap.......thanks Remington.
Ivor
 
I just know some guys are going to try to talk smack because it's a Norinco........It was the ammo people, that gun has even digested CCI stinger without an issue.
Ivor
 
Just to let you guys know, I just e-mailed Remington, if anyone has this ammo kicking around I would hold off on using it.
Ivor
 
i've shot a bucket and half (have 3 more buckets waiting) in my GSG 1911 without any problems other then the odd failure to feed properly. my buddy has gone through half a bucket in his AA conversion kit for his glock, no breaking of parts either. i love norinco and own 3 of them, and that's my first suspect to your problem.

let us know what remington says.
 
If it was a brand new gun that had issues I might agree, but split cases and damage to the gun......I will keep you posted though.
Ivor
 
Spawn-Inc said:
i've shot a bucket and half (have 3 more buckets waiting) in my GSG 1911 without any problems other then the odd failure to feed properly. my buddy has gone through half a bucket in his AA conversion kit for his glock, no breaking of parts either. i love norinco and own 3 of them, and that's my first suspect to your problem.

let us know what remington says.
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Then you and your buddy have been lucky, Remington rimfire ammunition has a horrible track record, and its very well documented across the great intarweb, Bought a brick of Remington thunderbolts one time, actually got fairly good accuracy with them, But had a ton of FTF's probably 1 in every 20 rounds, and this is between 6 different rimfire firearms pistols and rifles
 
Craig0ry said:
Then you and your buddy have been lucky, Remington rimfire ammunition has a horrible track record, and its very well documented across the great intarweb, Bought a brick of Remington thunderbolts one time, actually got fairly good accuracy with them, But had a ton of FTF's probably 1 in every 20 rounds, and this is between 6 different rimfire firearms pistols and rifles
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i know about the thunderbolt crap, but AA recommends remington golden bullets for their kits. 500 round bricks of golden bullets are $30 at lebaron, way to much for rimfire. then i saw the golden bullets game in buckets so i assumed the same ammo, but bulk packaging. the price tag at lebaron is $58 which works out to $21/500 which is awesome. the next best price and ammo that works for me is winchester m22's @ $22.50/500.

i wish thunderbolt was better because it was $16 for 500 2-3 years ago when i got my first gun. i read all the reviews saying how dirty it was, i bought 50 and agreed. winchesters answer is wildcats which work semi reliable in my gsg, but i get alot of leading to the point of bullets tumbling. it's around $16-18 per 500.

i haven't noticed any split cases, but then again i haven't looked as i've had no serious issues.
 
The lot number is S26BB1232. I will not use this ammo in any of my other guns. I know that gun was sound.
Ivor
 
I have shot hundreds of rounds out of my Remington bucket in my 10/22, 22/45 pistol and S&W Model 34 revolver without a single problem. Then again the best ammunition in my 10/22 for accuracy and reliability by a long shot is Remington Subsonics, I have never had a problem with any Remington rimfire ammo.
 
Silverback said:
I have shot hundreds of rounds out of my Remington bucket in my 10/22, 22/45 pistol and S&W Model 34 revolver without a single problem. Then again the best ammunition in my 10/22 for accuracy and reliability by a long shot is Remington Subsonics, I have never had a problem with any Remington rimfire ammo.
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I personally am going to avoid it from now on. I've fired probably a literal tonne of Winchester and federal ammo without an issue, and a good part of that in this very gun.
Ivor
 
ivor said:
I personally am going to avoid it from now on. I've fired probably a literal tonne of Winchester and federal ammo without an issue, and a good part of that in this very gun.
Ivor
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so what was the round count on the gun?
 
I been buying cases of CCI Blaser bulk packs, and my biggest complaint is that it is a little waxy - but even my ar7 gobbles it up without problem, and that gun is very finnicky on ammo.

I see that yellow and green bucket on the floor all the time when I go to buy more, but I've read too much crap about them to bother taking my wallet out on it.
 
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