[ARCHIVED THREAD] - WTF?

Posted: 12/22/2004 12:04:05 PM EDT

I picked up a cheap Promag brand 15-rnd magazine for my dad's Taurus P-92 as a Christmas gift. I'm sitting here wrapping it, and I notice that this brand new magazine, in the package, has a brown sticky substance on one side with a fingerprint in it. WTF?

What is this brown substance, and why is it on a supposedly new magazine? And why didn't anyone in quality control, I don't know, CLEAN it off?

Posted: 12/22/2004 12:05:59 PM EDT

[#1]

cosmolene?

Posted: 12/22/2004 12:06:54 PM EDT

[#2]

Cosmoline, to keep it from rusting.

Posted: 12/22/2004 12:07:31 PM EDT

[#3]

I just discovered that the package levers open and is in no way permanently sealed. From the looks of it, someone with engine grease (closest description, not like any gun oil/grease I've ever seen) was handling the magazine and put it back in the box.

Posted: 12/22/2004 12:09:03 PM EDT

[#4]

Um. Maybe the finger print is from, the QC guy inspecting it.

Quick. Drop the mag at a crime scene.

Posted: 12/22/2004 12:16:05 PM EDT

[#5]

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Posted: 12/22/2004 12:38:58 PM EDT

[#6]

I cleaned it up and made sure it fit in the gun before repackaging it and wrapping it. It's under the tree now, alongside a box of .45-70 Government.

Posted: 12/22/2004 12:42:29 PM EDT

[#7]

people open shit all the time at Cabelas, the worst just rip it open and leave the mess like a rummage sale

I spend about 30% of my time at the store folding and repackaging

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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - WTF?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - WTF?