Just my two cents on the matter. The big manufacturing companies will probably be making a lot more bolts, and therefore probably be getting more of lower quality material. This lower quality material would lead to the need for tests to make sure junk bolts aren't going around. I would assume that a smaller manufacture, especially one with the reputation of LaRue would use higher quality materials. Again, just my assumption.
Also, I am familiar with military standards, and a lot of time they get started on a whim of a bureaucrat, and don't really mean anything. I don't know if that is the case with these bolt standards or not.
I don't think any bolt will be fail-proof, no matter what tests go on with it. But if and when a LaRue bolt fails, they will replace it. Are you going to get a lifetime warranty with any one else? If you are in the situation where your life depends on it, just carry an extra bolt with you (and maybe an oven mitt
) The rest of us should be fine sending it in and getting a new one...
I think the LaRue fanbaoys need to stop drinking their Kool-Aid and saying that the LaRue ones' won't fail just because they are made my LaRue.
And the Mil-Spec Fanboys need to stop drinking their Kool-Aid and saying that if it doesn't have such and so tests done it is junk. Anyone that has been in the military will tell you that "Mil-spec" doesn't mean it is indestructable, or even the highest quality, it is just the military's specification for the contractors supplying them.
Now that I know where to get them, I will probably get a LaRue one, just for the lifetime warranty. Who cares if it breaks after 5K rounds if they fix it for me. I'll get one and a spare, after 10K zombies, I'll probably be out of ammo anyway