Configurable ammunition packaging system

An ammunition packaging system, comprising:

• a first component set associated with a first ammunition caliber and composed of a first collator plate, a first ammunition channel, a first flipper tray, a first down chute assembly and a first ammunition tray;
• a second component set associated with a second ammunition caliber and composed of a second collator plate, a second ammunition channel, a second flipper tray, a second down chute assembly, and a second ammunition tray;
• an ammunition packaging apparatus reconfigured to package ammunition of the second ammunition caliber from the first ammunition caliber by selecting the second ammunition caliber on a user interface and replacing, at the ammunition packaging apparatus, the first component set with the second component set;
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• a machine, capable of executing instructions embodied as software, communicatively coupled to the ammunition packaging apparatus and to a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a plurality of software portions, wherein one of said software portions, when executed by the machine, movably positions the second flipper tray beneath the second ammunition channel, and aligns a plurality of ammunition receptacles of the second ammunition tray with a respective plurality of down chutes of the second down chute assembly based on selecting the second ammunition caliber.