I just received a phone call from barrett, there is the posibility of a hardness issue with some of the bolts. They want me to ship the rifle to them so they can test it.
Just a slight clarification. The hardness issue is only with the cocking piece. No safety issue and honestly there is not even a function issue.
A "soft" cocking piece was cycled in a bolt over 1000 cycles with zero issues other than slight wear on the nose of the cam surface that ceased around 200 rounds and appeared to get no worse.
Nonetheless a few parts got out that are not perfectly to the heat treat spec, so they get replaced.
See my post above with a quote from Barrett on this issue
