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Originally Posted by BioHazarD_99
can someone explain to me why using a clone base hurts performance even if you replace every internal part?
i have had great success with my L96 being able to hit hit 400 ft with a 2 foot variance although i have sank a decent amount of money into it
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When guys offer up an opinion...it's often a generalization and meant to apply to the masses. One disaster of getting a "cheap" gun to shoot well....doesn't make it true. Neither does ONE anecdote of making a "good" gun shoot well. And there's a natural occurance that guys will post up their sucesses....and not their disasters.
But if you look into it enough...and look where the points of reference are...you'll see trends. (i.e. a newcomer to airsoft who's only bolt gun has been a "cheap" gun...is bound to say it's working fine and was a great deal)
What I've found (and I've been continually wrong for almost 4 decades now and counting
) is that you can replace a whole lot of parts...but at some level the foundations typically aren't alterable.
No part that you'll typically replace (i.e. piston/guide/sear/etc...) will address an issue of the outer barrel being less that sqarely/tightly set to the receiver. And unless you replace the receiver (or use thread inserts), nothing will make the soft metal of the receiver any stronger/stiffer and not have the stock screws strip out the material. The typical upgrades won't make the stock fit better to the action, it won't make the rails attached to the receiver straighter/flatter, it won't make the mag catch better, etc..... And upgrade parts might not fit a clone/cheap gun as they would a "good" gun for which they were designed.
To add to all that...you might very well get a "cheap" gun that's all ok...or you might get a crooked stick. "Cheap clones" tend to be hit and miss.
In the end...to each their own and good enough is sometimes good enough.
But that's why, IMO, it's generalized that starting with a clone base is not the best way to go if you're looking to end up with a "no compromise, best chance of success" bolt gun.