Remington thunderbolts and misfires
- Thread starter mchaley
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+1,000. Cause of a blown extractor and a ringed barrel.
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I went through 500 with 10/22, no duds... Work great for me, on kind i buy
The yellow jackets have always worked well for me, the thunderbolts are crap though.
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I had a box that had a crap load of dud's. A bunch more seemed to be reduced loads.
Well, at least a Thunderbolt bullet never got stuck in the barrel of my Kadet,
like one from a box of Win. 333's did.
Better to not fire at all, than just make it half way down the barrel!
Yes, I noticed it before firing again.
like one from a box of Win. 333's did.
Better to not fire at all, than just make it half way down the barrel!
Yes, I noticed it before firing again.
i get under .25 with them at 50yd, i do get fte once in a while
with my 10-22. won't stop me from buying them though
never again,
i refuse to run thunderbolts anymore, i had a 1/25 failure rate for firing in my 10/22 and a much higher rate of what i call "weak-ass firing where it would fire but with this weak almost apologetic "poof" and then drop to the ground at about 50yd, now the only other ammo i would refuse to run is again remington golden bullet where my ruger would consisently rip the primer bases off upon ejection.
i refuse to run thunderbolts anymore, i had a 1/25 failure rate for firing in my 10/22 and a much higher rate of what i call "weak-ass firing where it would fire but with this weak almost apologetic "poof" and then drop to the ground at about 50yd, now the only other ammo i would refuse to run is again remington golden bullet where my ruger would consisently rip the primer bases off upon ejection.
The Vipers and Yellow Jackets work well for me, but the Thunderduds and Dudsonics, not so much. I have one particular rimfire rifle that is very picky about ammo, and the best I have found so far are the Federal Game Shok.
Thunderbolts are not a consistent ammo... higher than average FTF and FTE... lots of squibs... fffssssttt!
Other Remmy's are better, but truthfully after a lot of testing from alot of guns... the Remmy's just could not shoot with comparable CCI's...
CCI SSHP's and SV's shoot more consistently and more accurately out of ALL of our guns than Rem Sub's...
CCI Mini-Mags shoot better than any of the Rem HV rounds...
CCI Velocitor's and Stinger's shoot better than the Rem Hyper rounds (YJ and Vipers)...
Basically we have completely given up on Remmy rimfire loads... waste of time and money... in our experience.
Other Remmy's are better, but truthfully after a lot of testing from alot of guns... the Remmy's just could not shoot with comparable CCI's...
CCI SSHP's and SV's shoot more consistently and more accurately out of ALL of our guns than Rem Sub's...
CCI Mini-Mags shoot better than any of the Rem HV rounds...
CCI Velocitor's and Stinger's shoot better than the Rem Hyper rounds (YJ and Vipers)...
Basically we have completely given up on Remmy rimfire loads... waste of time and money... in our experience.
I bold all posts... just got in the habit, it stands out when you are quoting... and true or not, it is my expereince... and you'll have to take my word for that... or not... but then why read anything on the internet...
Believe it or not, sometimes I read the Internet purely for entertainment.
Now see? Usually I would have simply bold-ed the portion of your post I was referring to, but I can't do that, now can I? So I had to delete some of it......
Haven't shot the Thunderbolts but was shooting some Remington Golden Bullet 525 Pack on Sunday. I couldn't get through a magazine full in my Ruger Mk II without a dud. A bit of a PITA.
Good thing it was not a life and death situation and just metal plates.
Good thing it was not a life and death situation and just metal plates.
