I have been doing some deep cleaning in my gun room and came across a 15 year old box of 55 grain .224 Hornady V-Max bullets. I took a peek inside and noticed some corrosion forming on the jacket, just below the plastic tip. I’m sure this wouldn’t affect the accuracy, but I’m curious as to what causes this. Is there some kind of chemical reaction happening between the plastic tip and the jacket? I also found 300 rounds of loaded .223 with this bullet. The loaded ammo is the same age as the box of bullets only. There is no corrosion at all on these bullets. Must be a chemical reaction on the loose bullets, but none on the loaded rounds. Interesting.