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SigM4 wrote:

C-dub wrote:We're shooting those Remington Golden Bullets in our Colt 1911-22 and M&P15-22 and only have a problem about every 100-200 rounds. Even then all we do is clear it manually and go on. We did have fewer problems with the Winchester M22 stuff, but the Remington GBs haven't been a nuisance.

Was this recently, or a while back? I've heard that the GB is "new and improved", but have yet to see/shoot it. Maybe they've made a turn for the better.

I have Remington "golden bullet" ammo that's 50 years old and have never had any problems. I don't know how long prior to that the "golden bullet" has been around but I bet a long time. It's just bronze powder in the wax lubricant. Other manufacturers use copper. Some of my old "golden bullet" ammo got submerged during tropical storm Allison and it still shoots fine. This is ammo left over from what I sold in my job in the 1960's and we sold hundreds of thousand of rounds. Never had any complaints. That's not to say Remington hasn't changed it (powder type, priming, crimp pressure, etc) but much of the time problems with ammo are related to a particular gun not liking it or perhaps magazine issues; a semi auto weapon may prefer higher or lower velocity ammo. My daughter was having problems with some Remington standard velocity ammo I got from the CMP in her Buckmark Camper. She usually shoots CCI Mini-mags. I had her change the magazine and when that didn't work I sprayed some lubricant into the gun and mags. We took both of our Campers out last week with this same ammo (400 rounds) without a single problem.

Serious .22 ( or any caliber really) shooters like jimlongley know you have to find the "sweet" ammo for any particular rifle or pistol. If you're interested in .22's read C. Rodney James' "Gun Digest Book of the .22 Rifle" He has lots of comparisons and examples of that phenomenon. Lots of interesting info about rimfires and field tests.