[SHOT 2025] New Remington Ammo Including Quiet Revolver .22 LR Loads
Remington has several new ammunition products for 2025. They range from dedicated lever-action loads to very interesting rimfire concepts. Let's break them down.
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First up is the Remington Core-Lokt Tipped Lever Gun ammo. It has a flat point polymer bullet of similar weight to the existing lead flat point Core-Lokt options. The polymer tip has an improved ballistic coefficient and initiates extra expansion on impact. It comes in popular lever action calibers including .30-30, .32 Winchester Special, .35 Remington, .360 Buckhammer, 444 Marlin, and .45-70 Government.
Over on the rimfire side there are several new products. Standard V is Remington’s new best-price plinking load. It is subsonic, with a muzzle velocity around 1,080 FPS. Because it is made for bulk shooting it comes packaged in 1,400-round buckets and 550-round bricks.
Next up is the Ranch Hand line. This ammo prioritizes quality, and Remington states it is the most reliable .22 LR on the market. They even go so far as to say it has a failure rate that is three times less than the most comparable competitor product. It comes in both round nose or hollow point options in a 100-round box.
The most interesting new product is the Performance Wheelgun load. It fired a 39-grain tapered bullet at
Under 800 FPS. That means it is very quiet, even in revolvers which can’t accept traditional silencers. The unique bullet shape makes it easier to load into the (often fidgety) little cylinder openings of single-action .22 revolvers. It is not just for handguns though, as it is very quiet in manually-operated rifles with their longer barrels. Due to the low muzzle velocity, it will not cycle most semiautomatics, though.
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I had been wondering about the new Tipped line and why it would be in the typical lever gun calibers. It's didn't make much sense outside of improved BC but there you go. That said, if that Super V load is actually subsonic from a rifle barrel it could be a nice, cheap alternative to my hoarding of CCI Standard Velocity for general use.
Seems like Remington’s just chasing existing CCI offerings: Blaser, Standard Velocity (the go-to choice for reliability), and Quiet. What I’d love to see is a lead-mitigation option, which both CCI (Clean) and Winchester (.21 Winchester) have brought to market.