Bolt jeweling at scale?

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I've seen plenty of videos online of people jeweling an individual rifle bolt; setting it up in a collet indexer and jeweling it with a drill press. I am now curious how the major manufacturers such as Remington or Winchester do this at mass production volumes. Do they have the same type of setup as an individual gunsmith, but just multiplied by many workstations; or is there some other method by which they can jewel a large number of bolts quickly? Just curious.

(pic of a jeweled bolt from one of my push-feed Model 70s for reference)

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4 axis CNC would be my guess. Chuck it up and run a pre-programmed tool path.

Edit: Video of what I am talking about

 

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