I've been shooting AR-15s since 1968 and have never had a bolt or barrel extension break, nor personally seen one that did. It certainly can happen with overpressure loads. but I'm not going to change out the bolts in any of my AR's nor buy these bolts for future builds. I have no doubt these are stronger bolts, but in the case of a random over-pressure cartridge I'd prefer the bolt to fail rather than the barrel extension. A bolt is easy to replace.
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