Remington thunderbolts and misfires

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The other day, I was at the range. I shot about 50 rounds in total. Of that 50, two were duds. I'm 99% sure I'm firing Remington Thunderbolts.

Has anyone else had a high number of duds? Is this to be expected or is this maybe just a bad batch?
 
Haven't had any success with these either. FTF were common. 1in10. I bought 3 boxes at a gun show.
I gave 2 of them to a young guy to waste on cans with his single shot.
 
I would agree that they are dirty and sometimes difficult to feed in some firearms. My Buckmark pistol eats them up without any issues and they work better than anything else in it for knocking down bowling pins...thats all I use them for. Its a bit of a PITA stripping everything down after a light outing though,and there are cleaner better ammo out there IMHO. I find that failures to fire increase on them with firearms which the FP comes up short on the breech face (ie the ones you can dry fire safely like 10/22, CZ's ect). Probably a combination of the dirt under the rim cushioning the FP blow and the shallower depth strike causes some of the duds.
 
Some go bang and some go pop, they have always been like that for me. I'll have to get the chrony out one day measure a box. I had to stop shooting them in my semi rifles and pistols they were soo bad, they are boltgun and revolver use only for me.
 
crashcollins said:
Some go bang and some go pop, they have always been like that for me. I'll have to get the chrony out one day measure a box. I had to stop shooting them in my semi rifles and pistols they were soo bad, they are boltgun and revolver use only for me.
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Nicely described. First time using them thunder pops and had the same experince. My friends also noticed they smelled a bit different like more burning than normal. When they said they were louder than Winchester 555, I said ya that why they cost more...they have more gunpowder. One guy goes they probably go faster thats why they're called thunderbolts, I could not hold my laugh in at that point. I got them real cheap too.
 
Really?

When I got my 22/45 and 10/22 I tried everything I could get my hands on and thunderbolts came out on top. They were the only ammo that would function both 100% and had the least FTF. I get in the neighborhood of 1 FTF in a brick or so.

I have been using them for close to ten years. No issues.

One of the guys at work also uses them in his guns no issues.

Shawn
 
It might not be a bad idea to see where the pin strike is on the back of the rim. The thunderbolts seem to do well where the FP strike is consistantly deep and more closer to the rims edge. On firearms where its safe to dry fire or where the pin strike is well inside the rims edge they will occaisionally not fire (my CZ 455 and ruger 10/22 sometimes have issues with it), so I'm thinking it might be a particularity with the primer's location or the way it gets ignition.
 
Thunderbolts haven't been the most reliable for me, i lean towards CCI and Federal. Type of firearm its cycling through probably plays a large role, since various makes and models of .22 seem to prefer different types of ammo.
 
In the last 30 years of rimfire shooting... the only brick of 22lr I couldn't go through was a brick of Thunderbolt...

Dirty as hell and too many misfire in just about every gun I owned. Ended giving them to another guy at the range to "try"... not sure if he went trough the whole box or not...
 
shawn said:
Really?

When I got my 22/45 and 10/22 I tried everything I could get my hands on and thunderbolts came out on top. They were the only ammo that would function both 100% and had the least FTF. I get in the neighborhood of 1 FTF in a brick or so.

I have been using them for close to ten years. No issues.

One of the guys at work also uses them in his guns no issues.

Shawn
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X2 still breaking in my 10/22 but these had functioned flawlessly for me.
 
Chunderbolts = scheisse!

Using them in my S&W K-22 revolver resulted in epic, keyhole-inducing leading.
 
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