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The bolt head is brazed on, too. Lot of people don't realize that. But most DIY-home gunsmiths don't work on that end of the bolt. They try to tacticalize their bolt handle by cutting on it or heating it up without using heat sinks and heat paste and damage the brazing, then when it breaks off they say "look, my handle came off, damn that Remington." No doubt a few have come off due to a bad brazing. But most of the ones I've seen that failed were worked on by someone who didn't know what they were doing.