Grendel as a Universal Infantry Cartridge

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I've discussed this issue at length with Bill Alexander and several other AR guys. They all are in agreement that if you beef the bolt up, you'll create a failure somewhere else, and that failure might be much more dangerous to the user than a bolt failure. As it is, when the bolt fails, any damage tends to go out the bottom of the mag well, which is a generally safe place to go, versus back toward the user, or out the sides towards friendlies.

I have yet to see an AR-10 that has kaboom'd, and I've been shooting them for a while now-several variants from original Dutch AR-10's, Modern Armalite's, and DPMS-based models. Most have never seen factory ammo and have been loaded for by a lot of very young, brave guys. The GAP DPMS .308 I had built has a very tight bore Obermeyer, and it shoots factory Lapua hunting ammo making the brass completely useless after 1 firing. I even tried googling AR10 kaboom and couldn't find anything.

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