Remington 260gr Acutip factory ammo - me sad

[Jim in Houston]

Just checked random samples of Remington from two boxes I ordered from Midway against some Hornady, and aside from the Hornady cases having a little better polish, I did not see any real differences.

[Texas Sheepdawg]

Why did you put a wad of spearmint gum on the bullet on the right?

[Jim in Houston]

That is a conical shape made from space age material in a pleasing and environmentally friendly color placed on top of a brass cylinder to show solidarity with all of the Chinese laboring in the rice fields.

Now where did I put my gum?

[Siringo]

So far from everything that has been written -- it seems everyone is in the "collecting" mode. Anyone going to shoot this remmy stuff and give some serious range reports???? 100, 200 and 300 yards. I already posted results of bullets I pulled from shot gun shells and reloaded them. Also note -- the bullets pulled were dinged as compared to the hornady bullets, but have any of you actually loaded Remington bullets before? All of their bulk bullets are rougher in appearance to other manufactures - but so what! They still shoot well and the game does not know the difference.

[BD1]

Hey guys, this is Remington factory ammo. For one, I am happy that they're in the game. I hope they stay. If you took a green an yellow box of Remy 3006 and put it under a magnifying glass next to the 3006 Hornady custom stuff, you'd see some of these same issues. I've shot about 40 rounds of it and it shoots MOA out of my rifle to 200 yards, and that's all I ask of it. I like the Hornady stuff better, but I generally like Hornady better across the board.

Being fussy about ammo is the reason I roll my own.

BD

[commander faschisto]

Hmmm...my Greenie 260grs look fine...? Remmy is floundering in regard to quality and customer service, and I notice that Bushmaster is going wobbly now, too. I've emailed Bushie three times in the last couple of weeks, but have yet to get a single reply. I got backordered from them on a sling swivel stud!?!? Also backordered was a Bushmaster-specific, specialty flip-up front sight for their V-Match barrels...WTF? They can't keep their own specialty parts in stock??? The corporate transition into the Remington group has been poorly managed, to say the least.

I'm ordering some more Greenie 260s from Midway, I'll be sure to check them and post if there's a problem.

[Siringo]

Cerberus/Freedom Group is in BIG, BIG trouble. Investors want to pull out 5.5 billion in hedge funds. Plus a whole bunch of other issues. This has trickled down to Remington, Marlin, Bushmaster, ect. in cost cutting moves and you name it. Sign of the times. Google Freedom Group and read on.

I was speaking with a large box gun retailer a week ago and he said that 30% of all Remington firearms go back to the factory for warranty work. He said he is seeing the same thing happen with Marlin. He also mentioned that the quality of the over make of the Marlin Lever guns is going south. I am not a finance guy, but I have been involved twice with companies that have been bought up by larger corporations and just watch it all die a slow death.

[MOUNTIN DU]

i'm well aware of all the "aquisitions" of late, among the big guys... but i refuse to believe it's the end of the world
to heck with the green tip stuff... i want the core-lokt soft point stuff they promised!

[bushmeister]

to heck with the green tip stuff... i want the core-lokt soft point stuff they promised!

I'm with you DU... The core lockt had much more appeal, and it also had a better bc. I wonder if we will ever know what happened?

[commander faschisto]

Re: Remmy Core-Lokt 450b rounds: Last I heard, a large ammo retailer I contacted said that Rem had listed it as "discontinued", no production scheduled...who knows, with that crowd, though?