The Rimfire Report: Sellier & Bellot Club 40 Grain Tested

By Luke C.

Hello and welcome back to another edition of The Rimfire Report! I’ve been getting some fresh new batches of different ammo for testing, so this week we’ll be checking out a rarity over here in the States – Sellier & Bellot Club 40 Grain 22LR.Sellier & Bellot (S&B) is a Czech ammo manufacturer originally founded by a Franco-German Businessman Louis Sellier in 1825 along with Jean Maria Nicolaus Bellot. Based in Prague, S&B would first establish themselves by manufacturing percussion caps at the request of then-Emperor Francis I of Austria. Just five years later, S&B had established itself as an international dealer in percussion caps and this early success would lead to their first subsidiary that focused entirely on contained metallic cartridges – a new technology at the time. Nearly 200 years later S&B is not only still around, they make some of the industry’s most well-loved ammunition including their Club 40 grain 22LR. Today we’ll go over this ammo to give you guys an overview of its shot-to-shot consistency and its accuracy potential and performance out of my

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