Sellier & bellot canadian match ? any thoughts on this?

I've used it. It's fine in my opinion. As far as clean or dirty...22lr is a "dirty" caliber.

Non jacketed ammo will foul the barrel way faster, and if you have a semi auto, it operates by blowback which will also foul up the action faster than if you have a bolt action in my experience.
 
It won't win you a trophy but its a cheap way to put a smile on the grandkids face for an afternoon.

They're just happy to hit the 4" spinner.

The guns always get a quick cleaning after a backyard marathon blast fest, so being dirty isn't a big deal.

Its amazing how much ammo a kid can put through a Cricket in an afternoon.
 
FatCatsDad said:
It won't win you a trophy but its a cheap way to put a smile on the grandkids face for an afternoon.

They're just happy to hit the 4" spinner.

The guns always get a quick cleaning after a backyard marathon blast fest, so being dirty isn't a big deal.

Its amazing how much ammo a kid can put through a Cricket in an afternoon.
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Depends how much you shoot. If you go out and shoot 25 shots and then go home, sure, I guess it isn't a big deal. But when you're shooting hundreds of shots in a single silhouette practice day you don't want to stop a bunch of times to clean the insane amount of soot out of the gun to keep it functioning. I mean, it's a bolt action. With clean ammo you can get away with never cleaning the gun if you felt like it. But ammo that actually makes a bolt action stop functioning, that is some diiiiiiiiiirty ammo. Not to mention it doesn't shoot well enough for silhouette, and silhouette doesn't exactly have tight tolerances for ammo. It's a sport that's pretty easy on ammo requirements. Even if I just wanted cheap plinking ammo, there are better/cleaner/cheaper alternatives to S&B. I honestly don't see it having anything going for it.
 
I tried a few bricks a year and a bit ago.
In my experience, it was ok, with a similar but not identical lube to Eley so fouling in back and forth wasnt too bad.

I did note at least 1 significant “flyer” in every 10 rounds or so even though they had lower SD’s than CCI sv.

In my particular rifle, RWS seems to be the winner and since they now own Norma and Norma Tac 22 is RWS primed, I get great results from tac-22 as a practice and plinking round. Typically 1.2-1.5” at 100 in calmer conditions.

Personally, i dont find the SB lube compatible with my regime so i dont use what I have left except in my plinking pistols.

They shoot pretty well in my wife’s basic 10/22.
 
Ah, found one of the test targets now, too. Shot with my pillar-bedded CZ 453 Varmint. I forgot it had an insanely low shot among those 50 shots on target. It made the group's height over 6 MOA! Hehe. A mean radius of 0.873 MOA at 77 m is nothing to write home about. The 50-shot group is 3.3 MOA wide and 6 MOA tall. Ugh. This stuff really didn't seem any different from the old S&B stuff in the green boxes. I think it's likely the only ammo they make, and just got a Canadian branding. Their stuff was never any good.

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_Shorty said:
Depends how much you shoot. If you go out and shoot 25 shots and then go home, sure, I guess it isn't a big deal. But when you're shooting hundreds of shots in a single silhouette practice day you don't want to stop a bunch of times to clean the insane amount of soot out of the gun to keep it functioning. I mean, it's a bolt action. With clean ammo you can get away with never cleaning the gun if you felt like it. But ammo that actually makes a bolt action stop functioning, that is some diiiiiiiiiirty ammo. Not to mention it doesn't shoot well enough for silhouette, and silhouette doesn't exactly have tight tolerances for ammo. It's a sport that's pretty easy on ammo requirements. Even if I just wanted cheap plinking ammo, there are better/cleaner/cheaper alternatives to S&B. I honestly don't see it having anything going for it.
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That level of dirt has not been my experience.
 
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