True! many duds w the Remington.
I bought a Remington 597 .22LR and Remington ammo (Cyclone) to go with it. I should have opted for the Ruger 10/22 (which I later traded the Remington toward). Between the 597 and the ammo, I had a 10% fail-to-fire rate. I tried to fire off 100 rounds, and had 10 that didn't go bang.
After picking up the Ruger 10/22 I decided to feed it the Federal ammo. I was more than two thirds of the way through a 550 round box before the first misfire. All told, I've put almost 1,000 rounds through it, and had only two not go bang.
Have you had your conversion kit malfunction whereby a live round jams itself up into the TOP of the unit? It’s very irritating. That Remington ammo does this a LOT. The resolution is to just remove the bolt, or reach in with a Leatherman tool and PULL the stuck round out. :-)