Friend has the third gen. Crown and we pulled the barrel, (for a jammed pellet) and he went to loosen the reared most screw and it was barely snug and appears to be lock tited?, is this normal from factory.
There was a little black stuff(not lock tite) from the factory on mine the 1st time I took removed it. I found adding just a little lock tite helped keep the screw from being loose in the threaded hole, but not necesary. After you've removed and re-tighted the screw many times, they tend to make a solid impression in the brass of the barrel that the screw locks down into and won't move or back out.