Snowman366
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We're all familiar with the little white powder-like plastic granules that are loaded into a lot of shotgun ammo. Not sure what the proper name for it is, but I've always heard it referred to as "grex". I'm sure that you've picked up a shotgun shell now and then and noticed the grex was sifting or leaking out of the crimp at the mouth of the shotshell. I just wanted to alert you that you might want to be careful about grex-leaking shotshells, and avoid loading them into the tubular magazine of your shotgun.
I was talking with my department's armorer and he told me that leaking grex can sift into the shell stop-release mechanism at the "mouth" of the shotgun's tubular magazine and, over time, build up a sufficient amount to jam the feeding of the weapon. This requires disassembling the shotgun and toothbrushing and air-hosing the debris out of the mechanism.
All shotguns need routine maintenance, of course, but grex sifting into the stop-release mechanism of the magazine is the most frequent problem encountered in the otherwise trouble-free pump-guns we have, and I expect we have close to a thousand of the beasties in service. It's a good idea to visually inspect the ammo we use, and I'm sure nearly all of us do. I just wasn't aware that those grex granules could ever be a problem.
I was talking with my department's armorer and he told me that leaking grex can sift into the shell stop-release mechanism at the "mouth" of the shotgun's tubular magazine and, over time, build up a sufficient amount to jam the feeding of the weapon. This requires disassembling the shotgun and toothbrushing and air-hosing the debris out of the mechanism.
All shotguns need routine maintenance, of course, but grex sifting into the stop-release mechanism of the magazine is the most frequent problem encountered in the otherwise trouble-free pump-guns we have, and I expect we have close to a thousand of the beasties in service. It's a good idea to visually inspect the ammo we use, and I'm sure nearly all of us do. I just wasn't aware that those grex granules could ever be a problem.