I have recently acquired a wood stock D Boys K98 with a view to converting it to a 350fps(ish) battlefield springer. Loads of info on doing such conversions here already, but before rushing out to buy a donor gun, is there any great advantage to using a JG Bar 10 over a VSR?
HFC do a clone VSR which you can buy new fairly inexpensively, whereas all the second hand JG Bar 10s seem to be pimped up and rather pricey as a result. If the amount of chopping up required is considerably less then I'll try and get a Bar 10, otherwise the clone VSR looks attractive. As I'll be lucky to put 100 rounds a year through this, extreme ruggedness is not necssarily top of my priority list.
Any advice welcome.
Cheers
Martin
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Toys: AGM MP40, Cyma M1A1, TM M14/G43/SVT40, TM VSR/K98, SnS No. 4, ASG Sten, Ppsh.
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only advice I can give is not to buy the ACM vsr, the dimensions are different on the bolt and is probably not up-gradable, this is what I used for my K98
my next project for winter 2012 is a Gewehr 98, my mate is bringing a turkish stock and bits over for me next summer, I will def be using the JG-Bar 10 
The HFC VSR11 is Taiwanese I beleieve and is an exact clone of the TM VSR much like the JG- BAR10 so that will be fine The only negative with them is that as with the TM, you have to drill out a pin to get the cylinder head off if you want to change the piston, spring, or spring guide.
It's the AGM001 and similar which are not exact copies and as such are not upgradeable and will probably break and start to slam-fire after a few hundred shots.
It always used to be that the HFC was a fair bit more expensive than the JG-Bar10. Is that no longer the case? 
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