It’s really interesting reading everyone’s comments and opinions over the (IMO) controversial topic of upgrading the NGRS. I fall into the category of “shamelessly upgrade and dump a metric ton of magic pict dust in it, then off you go” category! Has it worked? 🤷🏼♂️! Was it worth it?🤷🏼♂️ But I really enjoy it, it hasn’t (touch wood) piled in on me yet after 4 years or so and turns heads on game days with range, snappiness and accuracy. So I guess I’d say I’m happy with it. And I’d recommend the bells and whistle option. That said, they’re good out of the box and it’s probably as much of a fashion thing to upgrade them as it is a function thing. Annoyingly when I got mine, they hadn’t released the MK18 version, so I had to build it out of the SOPMOD version. Which in all honesty I also enjoyed putting together. and had(at the time) a pretty rare looking rif/NGRS. I must add, I at no stage did any of the tech work myself! Had I, it would be a very different story and I’m sure I would have another bag of parts in a box, recommending keeping it totally stock instead of a NGRS MK18 sprayed and in a nice case!🤣🤣