Cholo said:
Precision32, it was with all 3 guns, not just one. All 3 fired everything without a single malfunction 2 weeks ago and every time before that. The only difference was that this time it was with a recent box of the Rem GB's. I wish that all my RF's had ideal firing pins. I believe that there's something out of spec. with, hopefully, that one box. I knew something was amiss as soon as I tried to load the Bearcat. Thanks for the response.
Kevin, I hadn't bought any Rem. GB's since the 70's. Then I recently came across about 4,500 of them, new manufacture, at a price I was willing to live with. The new ones were the ones I was shooting yesterday.
It's really is a shame that, back in the day, Remington was our "go-to" .22 rimfire ammunition. My buddy and I burned a ton of Remington .22 rimfire in our Nylon 66 rifles on squirrels, cotton-tail and rats in the local open pit dump. These days, it seems Remington .22 rimfire isn't worth the match to set it on fire with. I'll try some now and then, but I, for one, do not accept the baloney involved with a firing pin issue as being the cause for faulty rim hits and lack of primer detonation. Case in point:
This is a Remington Thunderbolt round, hit solidly,
FOUR times with a perfect shaped firing pin tip. No noise what-so-ever from that round. No, I agree, until something drastically changes, I'll not purchase, or recommend, any Remington .22 rimfire despite how much smoke is blown from the other direction.