[Crunchmeister]

I'm trying to gauge how many people regularly game stock or near stock TM guns. People tend to highly recommend TM guns, and there are a lot out there. But I don't seem to often hear of (near) stock TMs or see them for sale in the buy & sell section, at least when it's a more serious playing selling the gun. It seems that active players that use TM guns tend to do a lot of work to them to upgrade them for gaming.

In terms of internals, the obvious first upgrades are the nylon bushings, the spring and often a bearing spring guide. Depending on what people have for springs and their desired setups (high speed / high velocity), often, high torque or high speed gears are installed, or just regular ratio hardened gears. And people with V2 mechboxed often seem to upgrade to reinforced mechboxes, particularly if going for a high velocity setup.

It seems that most people replace the bodies (mostly on Armalites and AKs) with metal bodies. They add wood kits on AKs too. With the metal Armalite bodies usually comes a 1-piece metal hopup. Then there's the inner barrels that are replaced with tightbores, the hopup sleeve is replaced to handle the higher velocities better. And it seems that replacing stocks, grips and front ends is quite a popular option as well.

So for you TM users out there, particularly the more active / hardcore players, exactly how much TM is left on your TM gun?