Remington Thunderbolt = Rubbish Ammo

[dave_303]

Used to by tonnes of thunderbolt as it was one of the few types of ammo my Walther G22 liked!
However, everything else I've ever owned hates it, even had a few that were so badly made they wouldn't chamber in a bolt gun!
Only brand of .22 that my ARX wont feed.

Currently using federal HV, getting it from my club at £30 per 100, does the job and shoots pretty well.

I hope that's a typo!! £30/100 rds??

It very much is! £30 for 500!

[mullen7]

I was about to say, you must be very conservative paying 30 quid for 100 rounds of RF haha!!

[huntervixen]

Last night I took my brand new Sig Sauer 522 SWAT to the range to zero the new red dot sight and give the gun a try.... I loaded up 25 rounds of some Remington HV "Thunderbolt" that I only bought because the gun shop didn't have my usual CCI MiniMag in stock. Chambered the first round and it fired, then it jammed with the bolt half closed so I pushed the bolt shut and it fired and jammed again.... tried more rounds and things were getting worse. I was s beginning to think that the rifle might have to go back to the shop, but I then switched to a magazine of MiniMags and the gun ran flawlessly. I then tried CCI standard velocity and the rifle again ran great with those too. So be wary of the Remington HV Thunderbolt stuff as it is total rubbish!

I've never had any success with Remington .22RF in my other .22 calibre rifles or Browning Buckmark LBP. I'm going to stick with CCI as it always works for me!

I had a very similar experience when I bought my spikes tactical a while back, the st22 hated the thunderbolt, it even managed to jam a spent round above the the bolt group! I only ever fed it mini mag after that, rarely missed a beat, looking forward to testing the mini mag in my L1A1 conversion kit..

[HH1]

Shot another 100 plus rounds of CCI MiniMag through it on Saturday evening and the Sig never missed a beat..... even with letting 2 other club members try out my new rifle.

[HALODIN]

You'll find copper wash fiocchi just as good in a semi-auto.

[zanes]

Its is cheap and goes bang, so has its plus points.

In my experience it quite often failed on the second of those two plus points. I ended up giving the last 150 odd rounds I had away.

[zanes]

I had a very similar experience when I bought my spikes tactical a while back, the st22 hated the thunderbolt, it even managed to jam a spent round above the the bolt group! I only ever fed it mini mag after that, rarely missed a beat, looking forward to testing the mini mag in my L1A1 conversion kit..

Hmmm, I don't suppose you recently met a bearded chap at a rifle club you're looking to rejoin?

[Gazoo]

I was using some Remington HV hollow point in the field yesterday before the bloody snow started again. Found that I couldn't use it at the club cos hollow points doh! so just for rabbits, going to be taking the occasional rabbit for years considering how many I bought.
However, I found them to be better grouping and have a bigger bang than the CCI standard, but these also jam, when I switched back to the CCI the jams stopped. This in my old AP74 which will eat any ammo, so not just the Thunderbolts.

[huntervixen]

I am still convinced that Remington Thunderbolt uses a mix of crushed up celluloid film and damp black powder as a charge, more smoke than a muzzle loader and a wider round placement than a shot gun!!

[Mezzer]

You'll find copper wash fiocchi just as good in a semi-auto.

Just got my hands on some Fiocchi Ultrasonic hv and shot a 100 rounds through my Sig 522. It all shot decently but the gun was filthy afterwards and took a considerable time to get all the crud removed. Very smokey at the chamber end and rather unpleasant smelling. This stuff has a copper washed bullet and comes packaged in an orange box.
I have tried the stuff Halden is talking about and it's fine but this 'ultrasonic', well, I'll probably give it a miss in future.

Mezzer