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Posted: 3/2/2013 6:30:33 AM EDT
Bought these at the last Fun Show near me. These were "face down" in the box. The white material looks like dried super glue to me. Should I be concerned and or mad?
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Quoted: I believe that's just the buffering material. Sometimes the crimp on shells are too deep and some comes out. I would not worry about it. Could be this. Check out the picture in this post. It's a ground up plastic buffering material to keep the pellets from smashing each other as they travel down the barrel. If the crimp was too aggressive, it could leak out a little. You should be able to shoot them with no issues. ETA: Is it a dried up mass, like it had melted and then cooled, or is it a granular substance?
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I've seen that in Remington shot shells before.
The white stuff is buffering (little plastic granules that aid in patterning). Remington heat crimps their shot shells. Sometimes production is a little sloppy and some buffering gets melted as well. Also, sometimes the heat crimping isn't perfect and some loose buffering leaks out. Either way, it's OK to shoot. However, if it's loose buffering that's leaking out, I wouldn't keep it stored in the mag tube (like you might in a duty or HD shotgun). That stuff gets EVERYWHERE and I once had to tear down a 870 that had been locked-up tight by a bunch of buffer that had leaked out (of a Federal shell). |
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