Anyone else hate non-efficient ammo packaging?

[HGUNHNTR]

^The special part is shooting it, the painful part is purchasing. Spending less time buying and more time shooting sounds ok with me.

 

[lcambre]

I am mostly a reloader and also shoot .40 S&W for IPSC limited. My complaint is that all of the plastic ammo boxes for reloads are sized for .45 diameter. I wish someone would make one just for .40/10mm.

 

[wanderinwalker]

I think Buffalo Bore may top the inefficient packaging list. Cardboard over a plastic box with a slab of foam inside that is 3x the size it needs to be.

I will second this! A few weeks ago I found a couple of Buffalo Bore boxes in the trash can at the local range. Curiousity peaked (this were HUGE boxes) I picked one up to read. .500 S&W? .454 Casull? .45-70 Hardcast? Nope, none of the above. .380 ACP!

 

[intercooler]

Buffalo Bore has to give you something for your $30. Twenty pieces of ammo doesn't do it LOL

 

[22-rimfire]

I prefer my ammo to be packaged the old way, in a cardboard/paper box with dividers for centerfire and tightly packed in 50-ct boxes for regular rimfire. The higher grade target ammo should be packaged slightly better to protect each round. The packaging is part of the marketing approach to their brand.

I can't say if this is more or less expensive. But I suspect it is less expensive than oversized boxes with plastic or styrofoam inserts to hold each cartridge. I am not the "greenist" person in the world, but I dislike filling our landfills with gallon jugs and styrofoam containers. I recall when McDonalds went from a styrofoam box for their sandwiches back to the wax coated paper which I entirely supported.

 

[rromeo]

It mostly bothers me because the different sized boxes are awkward to stack on my shelves.

 

[DavidMS]

I wish ammo was better package also.

The best package ammo that I have seen was Russian 7.62x54R in paper wrappers. The worst, was 9mm blazer. It was in cardboard boxes and the individual cartridges were in a Styrofoam carrier. It was over packed.

I hope that more ammunition comes with less packaging which means its cheaper to transport and as a result costs less.

 

[Flopsweat]

A simple calculation would tell you exactly how many rounds you were getting. People are just used to buying ammo by the 50 ct., that paradigm could be shifted toward buying it by the pound or kilogram. It would be great to have an ammo vending machine. I'd love to see a vending machine for firearms. Just scan your passport and receive your G17. Paperwork is automatically filed. This works well in my own utopia, and will be my first order of business when I can afford to purchase my own small country. Of course you're all invited.

But will the vending machine let me fondle the gun first and tell me how awesome it is, and how its cousin the soda machine has the exact same one and loves it?