Everything the guy was telling you i true. Gary got tired of people telling him his blades were dull so he went to Soligen, a well known German steel blade company. They did kinda scrw him over telling him he would have his blades by such & such date and never made any of the dates they promised him. I just got mine last week and they are definitely worth the wait. I do know that he has some of the 100 grain magnum heads (1 1/8" cut) in stock right now on his site. Better hurry though! He has promised that he has enough ordered to carry him through next year and that hes has thousands of the ferrules sitting in his warehouse just waiting on the blades. Gary is a stand up guy and has been stressing out over this badly.