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It’s actually quite impressive to see how fast all of this unfolded in real time

Good review. I’m glad to see someone else talking about the heat issues. Their solution after trimming the hand gaurd was to ENLARGE the oversized gas block which I’m assuming just neutered all the work on adding space between it and the handguard. Under heavy fire ours would get so hot it would spread into the lower receiver; after hearing no other reviewers complain about the heat I had HOPED it was fixed. I guess the other guys just don’t shoot the thing…

"Sir, another FocusTripp JAKL review has hit youtube."

PSA started censoring comments. Effeminate

“Make a better product at a better price.” -Focus Tripp

I knew PSA had some qc issues, though I never knew something that out of spec could come from them. The fact that they've gone so far as they've gone to hide this is a new issue altogether. I don't think I can in good faith support them knowing that

Imagine skimping on QC so hard that you don't even QC guns you send out for T&E... And then getting poopy about getting called out on it.

I like PSA, but I have never bought a complete rifle from them either. I do buy their premium FN barreled uppers. I use their lowers to build off of and have used a couple complete lowers. It’s been a while since I have built a rifle using PSA parts and I hope the QC issues get addressed soon and resolved because they are a company that is very innovate.

Still pisses me off that they tout themselves as “for the people” but the way they handle constructive criticism is by essentially blocking people and hiding in a corner…. I’d rather buy from Anderson and that’s what I’ve been doing. Bought multiple lower receivers from them and I’m happy with all of it including their barrels

Jokel. Temu spec 1913 rail

Thats why you are a valuable asset to the community. 100% transparency...you Sir are this generation Nutfancy!

I've always wanted to run around with a rifle in the original Windows XP background.

Obligatory "In before the Cease and Desist"

Asked my favorite armourer about it. He smiled and told me that the more PSA sells these things, the bigger his boat gets.

I like PSA. I don’t like bad quality control. Therefore, I don’t like when PSA has bad quality control. What I do like are market conditions being changed because of PSA.

The Halo 3 ODST music hits different. You continue to be one of the best guntubers on this platform.

Automatic upvote and sub for speaking the truth

I went by PSA's booth at SHOT this year, they're coming out with bolt actions, and shotguns, and etc etc. I've been in the industry for a while, and one of the biggest issues when dealing especially with ammo is finding people with enough attention to detail to produce a good product as cheaply as possible. The same thing applies with firearm assembly and whatnot. I have generally been pretty happy with what I've bought from PSA, however I mostly buy components and assemble it all myself because I'm at the point in my addiction that's the only way I can get my rocks off.

Hopefully, they get their shit together...

I really appreciate you being honest. I know PSA doesn't have the highest QC but I've bought a few of their products in the past (AR and a Dagger compact) and they've worked fine for me. I was thinking I'd get a JAKL next because I'd like to try a piston gun, but your videos have definitely changed my mind. I can deal with a few self-fixable issues on a cheaper product, but the JAKL ain't cheap and the out-of-spec rail just killed it for me. There's cheap Turkish stuff that gets that right. Thank you for your much needed work in this space.

Jakl reminds me of a kit car. Looks like a Ferrari on the outside but a Fiero on the inside.

I’ve noticed PSA even deleting some of my comments criticizing their products and QC. For a company that supposedly stands for “freedom” censorship isn’t a good look. As for their products I won’t waste a penny on them. They have wonky designs and shit products.

It's really good that someone has the courage to say what we all know about PSA. Thank you for your honesty and integrity.

Watching you SLAP that Holosun magnifier was rather satisfying!!! "A bunch of KZfaq corpo slugs shilled it, so now it's cool for some reason....." - JC - circa June 2024 You really are top tier at what you do man!!! Thanks!!

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. My jakl is just a range piece and a novelty rifle. I was so excited to get it. When I did, I quickly realized Its overpriced. Granted I went with the blem lower and a sale they had on Uppers. Saved me a couple hundred but still for that amount of dough, I could have pieced together a very nice AR15. I just didnt want another AR15… no regrets. Just hope it doesnt break on me. Perhaps I got lucky and got a good one…

So here is what I will say. I honestly think it was the way that he brought out the QC issue. Let me provide an example. Years ago Military Arms Channel brought up a huge failure point on PSAs little AKV 9mm PCC he demonstrated tons of failures and plastered it all over his channel! BUT! He was very professional provided a recommendation and said he was going to give them the chance to fix the issue. Not only did they fix it. The publicly acknowledged it and even NAMED the part that fixed the problem after him and acknowledged that publicly as well. So long story short if you just showcased the issue and said hey guys gotta get this fixed you would have not had any issue. I think it was all about professionalism. Not excusing their QC but the way it was handled. I come in peace just making an observation.

Love and trust your reviews, but you seem salty about the affiliate cut and are now bashing PSA and people who like them as much as possible lol. 3 videos/live stream mentioning it comes across that way at least. PSA QC is bad, customer servise it great though, contacting them for a replacment is an option despite the hassle. PWS MOD-1 > JAKL btw $400ish more for way better piston gun

Thanks for the honest review 👍

Temu acr

When my comment about their 10mm fmj went missing on their website, I was hoping it was a glitch or something. Now i see it was probably intentional..

For how much heat this is getting you gotta do a long term review. I’ve always liked PSA for what they are but the way they’ve handled this hasn’t been good at all. Also imo you could’ve been a little more delicate on your roast of them however I think all of your complaints are valid.

Finally someone speak out about the QC issue of PSA. I got mine in April and guess what? The first one they sent had a broken charging handle and my FFL has to contact PSA for a replacement before the transfer. 😢

Jus as good. PSA has grown way too quick without properly integrating all of their acquisitions let alone coming up with a solid QA and QC process. ISO standards on this exist for a reason, maybe their margins are indeed so low they let tooling go 150 operations instead of 75, maybe they dont have tight enough tolerances for rejects, or maybe they keep machines up too much. Probably all of it. Its a shame because while i dont own a PSA weapon or buy much of anything, they have great ideas and designers in R&D but then they're blacklisting people, removing negative feedback, strong arming forum mods to delete comments, and just not listening to feedback in general.

So glad I paid the extra 100 and got a full tactical Zastava 😅

I appreciate your honesty, and your content!

Modern warfare and Mass Effect music brings back good memories. You sir have good taste

I've got a 10.5" jakl I enjoy. Have a golding brace on it at the moment. I would agree with most of the criticisms in the video I just don't really care about them at all. I've owned a few piston AR variants and this one seems to be the best. Haven't had any issues with about a couple thousands shooting with my yhm turbok 5.56 can and 30cal omega300 can.

PSA has the perfect customer base: People that don't shoot. Wanna know how I know they don't shoot? Because they're fanboys. People that shoot a lot, especially heavy match schedules, have some form of umbrage against every company. When you shoot enough, you break stuff. When you break stuff, you replace stuff. When you replace stuff, you go back to shooting. When you shoot enough, you break stuff. And the circle of destruction goes on and on. PSA owners buy a cheap rifle, shoot a few hundred rounds a year (maybe), and don't have the firing schedule to see it fall apart.

I feel like all Psa had to say to make this not a big ordeal would have been “hey we looked at our setups and found the problem with the machines that lead to the issues. Here is how we have solved the problems.” And this could’ve been positive PR

Love the Mass Effect music, LOL. Makes the review feel like there's something at stake. I guess all those years dealing with the reapers gave me some subconscious PTSD.

Really wanted this gun to be good, it’s a real shame the supposedly pro 2A party destroyed the import rifle market so now the AR is basically the only viable choice and will be for the foreseeable future

I have a jakl and I absolutely love it and have had zero issues. It sounds like you’re wanting it to do AR15 things when that’s not what it is and I think it could be argued that it’s not trying to be.

PWS is the way to go.. Even cheaper than that, buy a PWS upper, pop it on your regular lower. Done!

I’d like to see you do a review on a dissent rifle. I have about 1700 through the new “ranch rifle” BR4 with a dissent upper and really liked it.

I have the 16” version. No issues at all. Shoots great. Slight flex in rear stock. I love it

I think it's a neat concept, however like you pointed out, at that price point that's a BCM complete rife. Nuff said. Why pay the same for less? This goes for all the non ar, ars, they are only seeming to meet the cool new gun, but at a cost for the base rifle you can run a BCM (or insert other high mid tier AR brand) with optic, light and well on the way to a suppressor.

Appreciate the honesty homie

I can’t say I haven’t drank from the PSA cup, especially for their stripped lowers and a few uppers over the years; but I’ve never had that idealistic, chummy feeling on account of their “mission”, and I’ve always erred on the side of “too good to be true” as far as they are concerned. They’re a company with financial goals, not a charity. This is all to say that people expect to have their cake and eat it too, and PSA has played on that heavily in fulfilling people’s taste for interesting guns, which the authentic and original models of are too expensive for many to swing(whether out of poverty or frugality). The logical conclusion to a company that puts all their cash into designing and making a massive catalogue of “affordable” alternatives, as opposed to mastering just a few products lines, to sought after goods that are expensive and hard to acquire is a gaggle of barely working pieces, that only satisfy a poor collectors tastes. This is why their shit kinda doesn’t work; and that’s also why we shouldn’t be that surprised when they don’t.

Got to say I've had nothing but good luck with mine. I got the 300 blk 8.5" barrel. Just got 1000 rounds with zero issues, and it shoots smoothly. I've shot 300 blk before in a short DI, and it was far snappier than my jakl. Guess I'm lucky because it seems to have mixed reviews.

Unless I missed it, why did you leave out the part about the rails being so out of spec?

I never got the hype for piston-driven AR alternatives, it all seemingly boils down to "these cool spec ops dudes use it", "some armies adopted it" and "it has these cool benefits that sound like they're minor/insignificant at best and pure marketing speak at worst."

Did I miss the part where the gun actually sucked? Is there another video or something?

Really only ever kept DD (mk18) for AR’s for years and was an AK guy. Bought a PWS upper on a whim, because of a sale. It is now the rifle I shoot more than anything, easily the most robust, smoothest, and joyously thoughtless firearms I own. Suppressed it is a dream- zero recoil, doesn’t get hot, easy to clean WHEN I EVEN CLEAN IT. I have now sunk thousands in accessories around that upper- PWS just doesn’t get the love it deserves.

I like the concept of bufferless ARs. While the JAKL started me on the journey, I have moved to other choices. I admit, aesthetically, the JAKL upper looks gorgeous though only runs skin deep. Hopefully they will listen to critque in the future and iterate with a better design.

As a firearms instructor and CRSO I discourage people from buying PSA products if they are looking for firearms for self protection and or home defense. I've seen dozens upon dozens of PSA products come through the range I work at and I can't remember one of them ever not having any issues. From their AR lowers being out of spec, loose castle nuts, pic rails being out of spec, canted front sight towers, trigger pins falling out, weak springs, ak trigger guards not riveted, ak headspace being out on brand new guns, ak front sights canted, cracked ak piston heads the list goes on and on. Sure they have a lifetime warranty but who knowingly wants to risk it and have to deal with all that hassle just to get your gun back and it have some other issue. Want an AK? Buy a Wasr, Want an AR? Buy a BCM. End of story

I appreciate what PSA has done for the firearms market, and I own and have owned many PSA firearms, but that doesn't give them a pass when they get lazy and then do crappy things when called on it. I personally have have only ever had maybe 2 issues with the numerous products I have gotten from PSA, but it says something when 3 items sent to a reviewer all had issues. When you send it, you can hand pick what's goes out. What bothers me the most is how they handled it when he said something about it.

I had a PSAK74 that didn’t function out of the box. I posted about it on the PSA Facebook group, and not only did my post get taken down, but a representative reached out to me to do some damage control. Crappily. Literally just redirected me to customer service. One of their CS guys who quit told me in a message that their small-caliber AKs and in-house barrels are hot garbage. Said it quite plainly.

Sad to see, I myself didn't have any issues with my JAKL. Shot through around 1k rounds in one session and it held up with more aggressive fire schedules.

This is the kind of reviews I appreciate, pure honesty. I wished the bigger gun channels did the same, not only that but updated their experience with the firearms after x amount of time when they have used it. While i appreciate a company making something affordable to people who don’t have a budget I also like having shit that works and works well.

Tell us how you really feel about it though

So...that rail worked out aye? 😂

Uh oh nobody tell focustripp about how the ks47 is a doomed desighn that wont survive a 300 round mag dump without breaking an extractor.

I got an early 10.5 version Jakl that I SBRd, and it has honestly been a great suppressed shooter. I think the 10.5 inch version is where this product shines, any bigger and it does get to bulky. PSA really flopped on this review rifle, the way they went about it is also disappointing.

Even if psa doesn't like your honesty I sure do. Great video thanks 👍💩😅

IWI Carmel is my favorite of the long strokes, but its a fat girl. Doesn't get too hot, fairly accurate, soft recoiling, dream to shoot suppressed- but holy shit it's heavy on the front.

Video good. Rifle bad.

Comment for the algorithm bc i support fellow south dakotans and speakers of truth

I bought a JAKL in 300 blackout because I like being able to shoot subs and supers without tuning it. However, after seeing how PSA handles criticism with regards to their poor 55gr ammo and out of spec rifles, I wont be buying any other firearms from them in the future. Appreciate the honest feedback.

My Jakl was fine but I have seen a lot that that problems I hope the 308 is better

i hope they use this criticism to help make the product better.

If it can't function as well as a Wolf A1 upper, then it probably needs a gen 2 with actual qc.

It's interesting. Gun owners say they want to know the truth about firearms and how good/bad they are. Yet when a reviewer says bad things about a firearm, the gun community shuns them. Especially if said reviewer calls out the corporate shills.

Favorite non-AR is the AR-7, weird shotguns are great. PSA's inability to follow spec is a travesty, doing cool things doesn't count if they don't work. I'll probably still get some of the "too good to say no" sales, but this review talked me out of a 300 blackout JAKL.

Standing up for honesty. Good job. Subscribed.

“Im commander Shepherd and this is my favorite reviewer on KZfaq”😂

Would be interesting to see your JAKL on the A3 Tactical Triad bullpup conversion. While I am not a fan of bullpup designs, it is interesting because it appears to make better use of these uppers.

I guess I'm missing the bad part? Is it because it has AK recoil and it's a little bit heavy?

Outstanding music choice. You sir have impeccable taste!

Tech question: how do you get away with using copyright music in the background without getting your video yoinked

Nobody else seems to have the problems with this rifle that chubs has I’ve been trying to find videos supporting his claims now it just seems like he pissed that PSA dropped him so he’s going scorched earth I’m sure PSA doesn’t care he’s one of the smaller less important gun channels

Cz Bren 805 (i got a gen1) for $1100 thanks classic fire arms they are the goat

I want to like PSA but i can't support them when they release stuff like this. Their mission statement is awesome but the product doesn't reflect it 🤷🏻‍♂️

My fav non-AR AR, CMMG Dissent

I have only bought 1 item from PSA, a copy of a Glock, which I own a few of. No problems, thus far. That said, I don't like Censorship and am a Sub of your channel for a reason. keep JOKeLing along! The Bad, the Good & the Ugly!👍🏻

PSA will take care of it if anything is wrong I just wonder if he reached out to them before dropping the negative review

Between this video and my car needing repairs first, I got saved a lot of money. Not buying a Jakl now. Which is a shame, because I *like* the Jakl in concept. It's new and interesting. But PSA refuses to actually QC their products.

i'm interested in this vs the brownells BRN180 just because of the folding without using an adapter ability. But that alone isn't worth a full extra pound.

I already avoid all of their in-house products due to worst in class QC. This is enough for me to avoid their site entirely now.

Thou shalt not talk bad about the company of the poors! I have a 10.5 5.56 upper I got as a range toy to stop me from buying any more expensive piston uppers. I think it shoots incredibly soft with either my RC2 or my omega 36M on it. However, it does not feel like a quality gun. The F5 stock blew. I sold it and put a sig stock on it. The charging handle flops around. The bolt release is small and shrouded and hard to hit. And it’s heavy. In no way does it feel like the fit and finish of a mid grade AR. Also my takedown pin holes are out of spec and I have to hammer and punch the pins out and in to take it down and assemble it. Not a serious gun, a range toy at best. Also, it sucks having to run the suppressed only gas plug. I can’t take the can off and just twist the plug to a non suppressed setting. I have to replace the whole thing. And the gas plug uses a takedown pin spring and detent and it has already failed under the heat and had to be replaced. I replaced it myself and it was a royal pain in the ass. Not a serious gun. Do not buy this as a serious trust your life gun.

🤣 I love that you aren’t selling out. It’s incredibly refreshing.

My favorite non-AR.. AR is an AK74.. Speaking of which I have no idea why would you pick this up instead of many of the 5.56 AKs on the market. Especially with the incoming wave zenico knock-off furniture that could give you the same attachment options for a similar price.

The Faxon ARAK-21 is my favorite self contained upper, very cool but designed early enough that a quad rail set-up and readily swappable barrels were a thing.

In Canada 🇨🇦 we have multiple AR180 models and designs like the JAKL! But in the end we get the same issues you’re having with the JAKL! Not one is worth purchasing!

I’ve been thoroughly impressed with mine and after you posted the issue with the 1913, I checked mine with pin gauges and it was perfectly in spec. I kind of think you went too hard into the Military Arms Channel mind set of “I’ll crap on this because it gets clicks”. The ACR type stock is utter garbage so totally agree with that. But if purchased as upper and then lower, you’d pay like $1150~ and get a better stock. And as far as recoil impulse, my Jakl has been incredible mild recoiling with a very wide variety of ammo, suppressed and unsuppressed. Then outside of playing with the gas, I’ve never had a stoppage. I think you kinda went a little too far “cool guy shit on it” on it.

People like the look of an acr stock but the magpul zhukov makes much more sense

This is sad :( I still want Acr at home

Awesome review... They just don't make paperweights like they used to.

😂 love it!!, the best titles lol

More people need to use Mass Effect music in firearm reviews. Lol good to see an honest review for a PSA