Post the slickest, sweetest, coolest, most SOVLFVLL ammo packaging you have. The more esoteric and rare the better.
>>61657194I am a massive fan of Eley .22 packaging. Something about the slick block lettering and solid colors. They also color code their different lines of ammo which tickles my autism brain.
Aguila's new .380 box looks pretty slick too. The asymmetric red is nice and eye-catching, almost like a videogame pickup.
>>61657206Apparently they also use it for other calibers as well. I like it.
>>61657202I don't think the new Eley packaging looks as nice as the old but I'm happy they kept the color scheme. Imagine having a shelf fully stock with a rainbow of different boxes of .22 and carefully selecting the right one each time you go out shooting like and aristocrat choosing a fine cigar.
>>61657194I like the old wolf cases
Swiss GP11 is my favorite surplus cartridge in part because of the box. It's simultaneously somehow utilitarianly martial and sleek. And the perforated pull tab built into the box is such a Swiss touch.
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>>61657294looks like something you'd get off Etsy
Esoteric today, but dirt-common in the cap-and-ball days.
What's in the box?>Pain
>>61657450What are they? Paper revolver cartridges? Where are the caps?
>>61657370I only made the one, so yeah.
>>61657977>Paper revolver cartridges?Yeah. the caps and the cartridges themselves are missing from that pic. It looks like someone put lead balls down inside the old wooden box. Each hole would have contained one paper cartridge and then a separate cap.
>>61658169Very interesting. Premade cartridges from back in the day right when precision machining and replaceable parts started to become common must have been amazing. Imagine living around that time and your dad had to make every bullet he ever shot by hand with a lead mold but you can just pop down to the general store and by a dozen cartridges for a few cents and they're all virtually guaranteed to be more accurate than anything you could make.
Some German 7.92x57
>>61657194I want to buy a box of H&H .700 nitro express now, despite each round probably being a car payment. That box just oozes class
>>61658348>$86 per roundgod damn
>>61658403It's for shooting Rhino and Elephant, probably the cheapest part of that experience is the ammunition.
>>61657262is it corrosive?
>>61658403>>61658447.700NE is a literal meme. It was a modern flex for H&H and something to market to extremely rich gun collectors who'd gotten bored with historical safari rounds.People see stuff like this and don't realize most elephant hunts are done with .4xx chamberings. .577 was the largest common one and .600 was as powerful as a real hunting cartridge ever got.
Not near my house rn, but I love the WW2 8x56R packages. 10 rounds on 2 clips and the box is oddly shaped like the clips.
>>61658558>and don't realize most elephant hunts are done with .4xx chamberings.Pretty much this. .450 Nitro Express was the standard British dangerous game cartridge, that only changed when England outlawed .45 cal cartridges in their colonies and the .470 NE was created to solve that problem. The .577 was never all that common the .600 was very rare and considered overkill even by professional hunters. The .700 only exists because some richfag wanted a big gun from H&H, they had said they weren't going to make any more .600s so they created the .700. It was more for bragging rights than anything else--same as the .600 really.
>>61657206>>61657208Genuine question, why aguila smell funny?
>>61659047I've never smelled the supposed cat pee/urea smell you're supposed to get from shooting their 22. 3k Rounds of the stuff and I'm still not noticing a smell difference from federal/cci or Winchester.
>>61659047they use a non-toxic primer mix.
>>61659176It's more like the smell of firecrackers >>61659186Wait, so the other bullets primers are poisonous?
>>61659186I can't speak to their centerfire stuff but their 22 ammo uses Eley primer but the ammo doesn't smell like Eley ammo does. Therefore I think it's the powder, not the primer. Furthermore, the Eley compound is not non-toxic, rather it's well known for its reliability.>>61659255>Wait, so the other bullets primers are poisonous?Most primers contains lead styphnate. If you wash your hands after you shoot this is not a problem.
>>61659268>lead styphnaterimfire primers also contain barium nitrate.
>>61658513No. In fact the modern GP11 doesn't even have a toxic primer.
>>61657194>tfw no more zombie ammoWhat are we going to do when the zombies come back?
>>61658603>.577 was never all that commonwasn't it just a magnum version of the infantry rifle literally everyone had
>>61658558>>61658603To be specific, .700 Nitro exists because at one point some extremely rich jackass ordered a ridiculous indian-prince-pimp-king special .600 from Holland and Holland with the provision that it would be the last .600 they ever made. So when, a few years later another extremely rich guy turned up at H&H wanting a .600, but they wouldn't, so eventually some bright spark said "well, what about a .700 instead?"
>>61660026The .577 Nitro Express was basically a smokeless version of the earlier .577 black powder Express cartridge. There were three versions of both cartridges, 2.75, 3, and 3.25 inch. All of those were more powerful than the .577 Snider infantry rifle which was only a 2.5" case, but they weren't just longer they were also larger diameter as well. The Snider used a .570 bullet, the others used .585.
Posted this on a different thread by accident lul
>>61660108>Nokia bullets
>>61657194>>61658403that's some shoddy fucking work on the top of the case. all that money and they couldn't even afford someone that knew how to use a router.
>>61660183Meanwhile if you look at old cased H&H guns it's all high-end hand cut joinery and they even bothered to align the slots in the screws holding the hinges on.
>>61660240H&H gunsmithing is exquisite.Aligning screw heads though is a basic standard practice. Checking screw alignment on an electric outlet plate is an easy way to tell if you electrician is a fuckwit.
>>61660322>H&H gunsmithing is exquisite.Speaking of which: obligatory repost.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUXoNUzAyvk
>>61660678>9mm specifically for submachinegun useNostalgic for a past I never even knew
>>61660183that's to allow for clearance for the neck of the bullet/projectile
>>61661325Look more carefully. The right side edge of the recess in the underside of the lid is all fucked up. It's most visible at the upper & lower right-hand corners of that black label. And no, I don't mean the recess for the case rims. There's also the incredibly oversize mortises cut for the hinges.
>>61660010I remember my dad bought a bunch of these in 9mm on clearance. Shit's the same as the self-defense ammo but with a green nubbin and he got it for 50% off
>>61661364function over feature there. but i see what you mean
>>61661234I want to lick this ammunition
>>61661234Bro has the original xbox controller ammo
>>61660010i have a case of that somewhere
>>61657194Perfection.
>>61662776>naturally flavored
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>>61662879>>61662882I wish gallery shooting ws still a thing. I'd love to drunkenly plink at old chipped plates in the hallway with the family after Thanksgiving dinner.
>>61662776kekThe most cost effective way to execute Galen Weston Jr. and his entire worthless family.
>>61665484Loblaws is great, No Name is the best value brand in Canada, don't care what some eastcuck thinks
I love the angry minikit.
Here you go
>>61659047I've heard it's a lead free primer compund (no lead styphinate) but who knows.>>61659176Aguila has a weird sweet smell to me. CCI and Federal are more firework-like. That being said, Aguila is still 90%+ of what I buy.
Checking my ammo and found this, how often does this happen and what would happened if I shot it? I’m obviously not going to but I’m curious
If you stack them like this you can fit 1575 rounds of 5.56 in a 50cal can.
>>61668923Lol you got a random wadcutter in with your FMJ range ammo. Fucking Winchester QC is retarded. I also got a Super X headstamp .22lr in with Herter's (Cabelas) ammo once so no doubt they make it. There's a reason I'm not crazy about Winchester and it's because their shit is about the same price as everyone else and their QC is just about worse than everyone else in every aspect. Their .22LR under Herters grouped like shit and had an underloaded round (I've never had this in thousands of rounds). Their 5.56 is a'ight though and I've since tried their Silencer and subsonic ammo which was okay.
>>61668923Where did you get the box of ammo? I've seen this at a gunshop that would take in ammo on trade and from estate sales. Looks like someone put a round of wadcutter in there and passed it off as a full box of ammo.Store that won't let you check the ammo before you buy it always sketch me out. I've found boxes where people stole the 3 rounds they need for hunting season and left the box on the shelf.
>>61668850Luv me Sta-Klean
>>61657450looks like a bug nest of some sort
>>61668957>>61668947I bought it at sportsman warehouse. I know very little about guns and would never think to check the ammo. Now I know I
>>61668947I didn’t think about buying self defense ammo, I just asked the guy at the counter for .38 ammo and he said that was his best deal. This revolver is what I sleep next to, does it make a big difference on usability for self defense? Is quality control better or something
>>61659064I dig this. Bold but not overstated. Timeless in design
>>61668996>>61669011I'd probably get actual SD ammo instead of range FMJ. Winchester at that close should be fine as accuracy isn't a huge deal; I don't think I ever had a dud but I'd worry about QC issues considering my experiences (though probably biased). I'd get Federal or Remington (now owned by PSA) or maybe even Aguila. CCI might also make .38? I don't know; I mainly buy their .22. Buy some cheap range ammo for the range and then buy some good defense ammo. /HG/ Handgun General would be able to point you in a better direction for handgun ammo quality and types of bullet construction, etc. Also look at ammoseek; if Sportsmans Warehouse is anything like Cabelas their ammo is hilariously overpriced.
>>61668996Just like checking eggs before you buy them.
>>61668811Witnessed
Old Federal boxes used to be pretty cozy. Plain and simple red box.
>>61657194haha XL stripper clip
>>61670702>land roverWhat?
>>61671490Cross-branding. Just as how there's an Eddie Bauer edition Ford Explorer there is a Holland & Holland edition Range Rover.
>>61657194>newfag doesn't know what kino means
mmm tasty blue tip
>>61671992Blue raspberry ammo
>>61676521>Says 50 rounds on the box>Only holds 10 rounds per boxFuck Spain.
Early 90's gun show sampler pack.
>>61676505what are the short little fat ones?
>>61676561Those are tracers. Come from the white and teal marked box in the top right
>>61657202It looks like a box for one of my fancy guitar pedals
>>61676639Interesting.Thanks!
>>61661234I have the red ones.
I used to go to gun shows looking for stuff like this.
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>>61676521I wonder why they are in English
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>>61676505That's actually a cool poster board. I might steal that idea for a project.
>>61657370L2a2 308 came like that without the gay note. Had pink paper though on some.
>>61663113It can be with airguns, anon! >>61668927Beautiful, yet horrifying thinking how long it took to do this.
>>61668811Impressive digits
>>61668927Imagine how much that weighs
>>61668811What is it?
>>61657458My condolences on your obliterated bank account.
>>61676521BTW if you want to do something like this, just go to the local print/fax/scan place and get it printed on thick posterboard from Dollar Tree or something. Their printers are WAY fucking better than anything you have at home. Might even be able to upscale (see: bigjpg, waifu2x, other AI upscalers) the texture a little and sharpen in photoshop/gimp a little to make it look better. Way nicer than printing out each side and gluing it to a pre-existing box. Cut through the glue joint on a similar box, scan it, piece it together in some program that won't scale images like Photoshop. Make sure to keep a scale in the pic like a flat ruler. Place textures over box. Print. Not sure how to print full scale if bigger than a sheet of printer paper as I've run into that issue though I'm sure MSWord has some options for paper size for those not retarded but it tends to scale images as it wants just to fuck with your head.>>61677125Lucky anon; I've never seen those.>>61677451A lot of times you can get a cheap black cardstock backed black framed picture frame in odd sizes on trash days. People don't want 'em. I get my display cases like that too and paint them to match. Biggest pain in the ass is when they have glass that isn't removable without complete disassembly. Sometimes they're even pre-lit with LED strips.
>>61677493>Beautiful, yet horrifying thinking how long it took to do this.Meth is a hell of a drug.
>>61669011with self defense ammo you pay like 3x the price for the cartridge to get a whole bunch of marginal benefits like nickel plated brass, reduced recoil loads, expanding/tumbling bullets, and an extra qc pass. those things dont really matter but they dont hurtwith 38 special the guns don't have a minimum recoil requirement to cycle like semi-autos so 'specific terminal ballistics' means there's a lot of different loadings for 'self defense.' hornady makes a critical defense lite that's like 30 grains lighter than their regular critical defense which means it wont recoil very much but its also less powerful than a 32 h&r
>>61668947>>61669163Hornady loaded a primer in backwards with this one round out of their "Frontier" line I bought once.
>>61681456Wild looking. I know things have probably changed and they're GTG since I first read about them last but I remember people had lots of complaints about the Hornady Frontier line of .223/5.56 a couple years back. Which is a shame if true because the "Frontier" line is actually an old name that they brought back. IIRC sometime around the 60s-80s Hornady used to make ammo under that name/line and they brought it back in ~2014.
>>61681506To be fair to them, it was the ONLY round that gave me a problem in about 300, I just thought it was sort of funny. I thought it was a light strike at first (didn't bother checking) and just picked it up off the ground and tried again when I realized it was like that.The actual brand I'll stay away from now is Armscor, since some .500 S&W I bought from them wasn't burning powder completely, getting light strikes, and a host of other things. Like, it'd sound and feel like a "pop" and made me think I had a squib, with powder literally falling out of the cylinder, so I pretty much swore it off since then. Fuck Armscor. I would've loved to have taken pictures, but I guess I was just a little too "freaked out" or something at the time.
>>61681529Lol I stay away from Armscor after hearing about their .22lr. Never bought any but there's probably a reason why there's STILL a listing for 2.3cpr Armscor .22lr on ammoseek as of yesterday despite anons telling me about that like 3 weeks ago.
>>61657233>TFW I will never have an ammo sommelier
>>61677529thanks >>61679957It is a container for the vgm 93 grenade of the GM-94.
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>>61677125>>61661234Sexo.
>Green Gold Red and Grey colors complement each other>Design is eye catching yet not obnoxious Surprised no one posted Barnual yet.
>>61682426>>61682433Man, I am hungry for some bento now
1983 Sellier and Bellot .22LR
I wanted an older German ammo box, so I made this up, gonna print it out on some card stock soon to fold it up
>>61668927Impressive. A .30 cal can only takes 421 rounds of 7.62x51 NATO if sorted in a horizontally opposing fashion.>>61680826>MethNTA, but I actually did mine sober and clean.
>>61657194does this count?
>>61657202>>61657233Eley tenex my beloved
>>61691605I'd say it'd count even more if you made one of those crates. Shit you could even print some rockets using the ripped models, smooth the layer lines out, and paint it and store them in it. Reminds me I have some vidya crates I want to make. Would make for neat storage IMO.
>>61687219German text would use u. s. w. instead of etc.Alt 0214 for Ö instead of Oe(ldicht).
>>61657194Not rare but I've always liked the Kynoch packaging. Makes me think of a 12 bore shell sitting on end and a .410 lying sideways.
>>61693032Example.
>>61692353see i thought the same thing but the bopx i was usin as my base has ect
>>61693818I stand corrected.
>>61693323There's a delightful irony in communist symbolism being appropriated as a corporate marketing gimmick.
>>616612342000s as fuck. I can't shake the urge to put it in my mouth.
>>61669411Based
>>61668957>stole the 3 rounds they need for hunting seasonOr if you're in the inner city, the 3 rounds they need to attend a family funeral.
