[jordan7831]

If you're costing this out, would you consider looking in the classifieds for a upgraded gun that you could cannibalize for parts, or use as a base platform?

There is a unwritten rule here that a gun never sells for the sum of its parts. Guess it's a case of the whole is less than the sum of its parts.

With that said, it is possible to pick up a nicely upgraded gun for far less than that $700 figure you are throwing around, and still have quite a lot of wiggle room to purchase some of the newer parts you are looking at.

Like what Danke said, buy two guns. Then you can strip one for parts and upgrade your gun for far less than buying all brand new. Or you may find the perfect gun you want sans some minor parts here and there.

This is actually the course I take for some of my one off builds. At one time I had bought 4 hi capas each with various expensive upgrades to make a really sweet pistol. And as mentioned before, you can sell parts off to offset the cost.