5 Round Blister Packs?

[ApacheCoTodd]

I figure it's commercial market prep

De-linked MG and/or un-strippered rifle ammo.

Just another way of selling bulk ammo. I like it. Easy to see, count and confirm rather than the usual post military bulk that gets sold.

 

[45lcshooter]

Quality control probably, plus it is coming from over seas, so you really don't want loose ammo banging around. Packaging makes your product look clean and neat, even if it is ammo.

Maybe maufacture has my boss working for them, my boss told me that we need to "protect the product" and the "product" is treated lumber, he didn't want it to get wet. ummmmmmmmmmm K, then why is it treated. hahahaha

 

[FROGO207]

I got some 10 count blister packed ammo, IIRC identified as Chi-Com rounds of 7.62X39 like that some years ago. They were really cheap ---------and turned out to be brass washed steel as well as corrosive.

 

[herrwalther]

Tired of mass shooters going through many rounds to kill people? Introducing blister pack ammo! Now they have to unwrap individual rounds before they can load it in the magazine. Making their accuracy better and you safer.

 

[xxjumbojimboxx]

Heck, i like it for stoarge purposes. keeps the water out.

 

[Lost Sheep]

5-Round stripper clips, maybe. Blister packs? Ridiculous. Do you know how long it takes me to open a blister pack? I can reload my old brass faster.

Lost Sheep

 

[230RN]

I've been using 5-round "blister packs" for my J-frame for years.

I make 'em out of Gillete Sensor Excel razor head packs.

Terry, 230RN

 

[MAKster]

That looks like something Bloomberg would come up with. If you cannot ban 30 round magazines package the ammo so it take 10 minutes to load one magazine.

 

[230RN]

^ I am insulted.

They're fairly practical, being a flat pocket package, but yes, it requires loading five loose rounds after you open them. But you have them.

I tried the "long strip" style of speedloaders and they were awkward for me with my arthritis, and not much better than loading loose rounds, besides having to cut off the end to make them 5-rounders.

I finally settled on a couple of HKS 36 speedloaders and the hell with the extra bulk. My only objection to these is the fact that they release with a clockwise turn on the knob. Seems bass ackwards to me. Righty-tighty, left-loosey, doncha know.

I now use the Gillette cases for extra in my car, in the 'tween-seats console. (BTW, most .357s don't fit in them.)

But I should be insulted because of the comparison of me and Bloomberg.

He wouldn't want me to carry a loaded gun around.

Or any gun. loaded or not.

Or a super-sized soft drink.

Or to belch in public.

Thank you for your concern for my welfare, Mayor.

Terry, 230RN

 

[Reloadron]

East German blanks and plastic core 7.62x39 was in 10 round packs......I thought they would look neat on the plus sales racks at the grocery next to chapstick breath sprays.......

Some of the packettes had info on the back as to muzzle velocity and sight changes needed to use the plastic core on KD ranges

-kBob

Still have some of those. Never found the ammunition or the packages to be very useful. Mine don't have anything on the back.

Ron

 

[PavePusher]

I think the bigger concern should be the price....

61 cents/rd for 5.56 ammo? Holy Ceiling Cat!!!!

 

[TRX]

Glaser ammo used to come in little blister packs twenty-odd years ago. And I've seen shotgun shells packaged that way, slugs or specialty stuff.

 

[X-JaVeN-X]

They're special ordered for NY...for when the magazine limit drops from 7 to 5.