VFC or WE Tech???

[SuperHog]

Originally Posted by Zack The Ripper

I have used a ton of WE products and I have always had the best results using WE parts with few internal upgrades - NPAS, hopup rubber, inner barrel. WE has come a long way in the past two years.

Most of the WE parts can be had for half or one third the price of the RA Tech parts. Call me an economist, but that seems like a better investment. Hell, buy a WE Open Bolt M4 and you get the WE Open Bolt kit for $90-100 you essessentially have 100% spare internal parts.

To each their own. My guns shot just as far and just as accurately as with RA Tech parts - I know this because I had guns I had decked out. Had more issues with the RA Tech stuff than I did with the WE.

That is interesting. I personal have not bought a single RA Tech upgrade, but I see a lot have people have. Also it seems that RA Tech loves to flood the news and YouTube with the upgrades stuff and their performance comparisons on a pool table.

[Zack The Ripper]

There are some people that have gotten great performance out of their rifles using RA Tech parts, but I have never met anyone who got it there without a ton of work needed to get things to mesh right, including myself.

I had an M4 I literally built from scratch out of WE receivers and RA Tech internals - all newest Gen stuff at the time of purchase. Even after using spacers to shorten the bolt cycle, making some filing adjustments to the bolt carrier, bolt stop, nozzle, shimming things, and fiddling with the trigger assembly; I could never get the bolt to lock on empty. Everything else worked beautifully on the gun, but never the bolt stop. Simply threw in WE parts, including a new and unmodified WE bolt stop and functioned exactly the same - at excellence, except, the bolt stop now worked, with zero modification aside from one gearbox shim for tightness. Cycle also felt crisper, less sluggish, and gas efficiency seemed better because the discharge was pushing a lighter bolt. The same was true with my SCAR.

Simply rule to follow: if it ain't broke, don't fix/upgrade it.

[N_Force]

Originally Posted by Zack The Ripper

Simply rule to follow: if it ain't broke, don't fix/upgrade it.

absolutely "RIGHT ON"