Remington Thunderbolts

[Jeb48]

Had a Thunderbolt fail to eject from my Ruger Mk IV Monday (yea I know about the recall from Ruger but mine is shooting fine and I'm following the rules so will continue shooting it till the box shows up to send it back) and this is what I found when I pried it out.

 

[FJCrusing]

Have heard that the Remington Golden Bullets are a bit higher quality than the Thunderbolts. Have a few boxes of Thunderbolts myself but haven't shot them yet.  Might be selling them now.

[Ronald_55]

So that is a tear in the brass? Is the mouth malformed like it expanded?

[Ronald_55]

Just now, FJCrusing said:

Have heard that the Remington Golden Bullets are a bit higher quality than the Thunderbolts. Have a few boxes of Thunderbolts myself but haven't shot them yet.  Might be selling them now.

I have shot lots of Thunderbolt. Only problem I have ever had is that they are dirty little rounds.

[Raoul]

My experience with Remington is it can be a little hot. Of course that's better than the Federal value packs which won't cycle in many of my guns.

[Jeb48]

23 hours ago, Ronald_55 said:

So that is a tear in the brass? Is the mouth malformed like it expanded?

Yes the brass split. It expanded enough to jam in the chamber.

[Garufa]

It happens.  Had something similar happen with my Mark II a few years ago with Federal bulk.  It's why one wears glasses of some kind while shooting...anything.

[chances R]

IMO not a big deal.  Out of millions of rounds of ammo made something will happen.  It didn't blow your gun up so load up and fire away.  You shoot enough rounds from any manufacturer and there will be an imperfect round.

[Jeb48]

I wasn't that concerned, just thought it was interesting. I have only had it happen twice in the many 1000s of rounds of .22 that I have shot. The other failure was some very old ammo I decided to shoot up, I'm guessing it was 60+ year old ammo. That was in an old single shot bolt Winchester and it actually threw some gunpowder out around the end of the bolt.