Now that is pure evil genius!rightisright wrote:Somewhere I have a stash of Remington Thunderdolt. If the S ever HTF, I will barter it with my enemy.
Is 22LR back?
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I keep enough Thunderbolt around to be able to show the kids how to handle a failure to fire.rightisright wrote:Some folks have reported Remington's bulk .22 has gotten a lot better. I'll stick w. Federal bulk. It runs in almost everything I have.
Somewhere I have a stash of Remington Thunderdolt. If the S ever HTF, I will barter it with my enemy.
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Thank you, gentlemen, those are good suggestions, I have about 4 bricks of the Thundersh** and heretofore considered it a waste of space I was too lazy to remedy.John_in_Longview wrote:I keep enough Thunderbolt around to be able to show the kids how to handle a failure to fire.rightisright wrote:Some folks have reported Remington's bulk .22 has gotten a lot better. I'll stick w. Federal bulk. It runs in almost everything I have.
Somewhere I have a stash of Remington Thunderdolt. If the S ever HTF, I will barter it with my enemy.
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I have quite a bit of Thundersh#$ but it's always been good to me. I can't knock it too badly.
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Rimfire ammo is primed with a liquid compound that spreads by capillarity and jostling around the folded rimspace; some (maybe all, now) high-grade target ammo has the cases additionally spun to increase uniformity of priming. All the ThunderDolt ammo with which I have had FTF issues shows a single glob in one spot which was missed by the firing pin strike. My layman's theory is that the Manufacturer periodically lets the compound get too thick (Red-Eye Shift Quality Control?) and when it's discovered they just run the questionably-primed stuff into the ThunderDolt line and let us suckers sort it out. I can't think of anything else that explains the consistently crummy "quality" of ThunderDolt.
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Natchez has a rimfire sale going on:
https://www.natchezss.com/ammunition/rimfire-ammo.html
Looks like regular .22 lr is settling down at $0.10 a round, with the higher grade stuff going for about twice as much. That Wolf Gold is tempting.
https://www.natchezss.com/ammunition/rimfire-ammo.html
Looks like regular .22 lr is settling down at $0.10 a round, with the higher grade stuff going for about twice as much. That Wolf Gold is tempting.
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Federal Automatch is going for about 6 cents a round, and regular Federal bulk packs are about 4 cents per round.
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I can't tell what the local shops might or might not have, I buy match ammo by the case from the specialty supply houses...which almost always had ammo in stock.