Bolt Group Buy - Possible?

[PrecisionFirearms]

I have to voice a bit here. I have almost 600 6.5 Grendel Bolts ordered from AA. The oldest order is going on 16 months old. Just today we received 25 bolts, the first we have seen of these in 8 months. We have been using Les Baer Bolts and found them to be very good. We have used 500 of these and only 2 broken to date since LBC changed to enhanced materials. Before anyone asks, we are not in the business to selling bolts. Just giving you folks and the inside look at of supply and demand. One of the bottlenecks in production of uppers and rifles is the Bolt. Les Baer takes pretty good care of us. AA does what they can. If they don't have them - what are they to do?? I have the drawings here and just about started to make them, but we have concluded that for the price we can buy them, we can't make them. $75 for a complete 6.5 bolts is not unreasonable. Our cost estimate was close to $55 to make them before shot peening, heat treat, coating, MPI, and Test Firing. The extractor needs to made and was included in the cost. We may decide to make them at a later date, but right now there are much more profitable parts for our (2) 5 axis CNC Lathes to be making. We just finalized a real nice 6.5 Caliber Brake with 3 baffles and 11 degree target crown.