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Focus trip and manufacturer controversy. Name a more iconic duo

People usually cite PSA's pro-2A marketing as to why they deserve more forgiveness but if anything I think there's something nobody talks about: PSA could improve their QC with all the profits they make off selling them so cheap but instead they create new product lines. New product lines that need new techniques, new tooling, and new QC training to execute properly. And this is all while they have issues with their current line. As much as I love seeing new alternatives to ARs you shouldn't be stretching your resources that far when you still need to improve QC on your base line. Their ambition is only hurting them because it's beyond their actual means.

I personally feel no ill will towards PSA for poor QC. The problem begins and ends when they don't take responsibility. If they are trying to control who says what about their products I think I'm going to stop giving them my money.

This is why I like your channel. You don’t sugar coat anything and BS us into buying something. If something is bad, has problems or totally not worth it, you give us the facts and let us decide if it’s worth it or not. You are my go to review channel. I do own PSA premium uppers with FN barrels that I piece together using other parts. I also built a DS Arms upper with a chrome lined barrel. I think PSA is innovative but the QC is a problem and always has been. Keep up the great work!

The Jackal just got out of the pool dammit!😂

If it isn’t too antisemitic to say, I don’t support any group self identifying as a “tribe”

If I’m spending over a thousand dollars I’m not shopping PSA. I’ve only dealt with their low end stuff because I’m gonna start swapping parts immediately. Having a gun you can shoot while upgrading is how I’ve done most of my rifles

PSA cancelling your affiliation is almost as petty as the response video from Lead and Steel's CEO.

As someone who’s done QC in manufacturing I can tell you I don’t really care if the thing I’m looking at works or not, that’s not my job, it’s an engineer’s job. My job is to ensure the parts I’m looking at follow the specs in the blueprint. If everything is following the print and the end product doesn’t work, then that’s a problem from square one, not QC.

Love this video! As an avid viewer of 2A content, it’s getting harder to find HONEST product reviews. Keep up the good work! 👏

for $1300 it better be spot on, absolutely no excuse for that garbage.

Couldve probably done without the "they didnt dump me, CAUSE I WAS PLANNING ON DUMPING THEM FIRST" even if its true lol.

With the QC, thing, it's fine if a PSA isn't as solid as a KAC, but, it's more expensive to manufacture 2 crappy parts, then to make 1 decent one...let alone having to pay to ship the gun back, and pay people to look it over, fix it, test it, etc. I'm a PSA fan, but I refuse to make stupid excuses like that for them... That's how you end up with Sig. I don't want overpriced engineering samples that take 4 generations to be decent. PSA should slow down the innovation, and tighten up QC. I'd rather have an AR that's in spec and ready to shoot, than a PSA rock in a pseudo-mp7 chassis.

Interesting..... I made a KZfaq short with Garand Thumb footage in it and strangely I got demonetized shortly after

This is why I never take youtube reviews seriously everyone is just trying to make money off branding

There was a video of a guy showing his new PSA steel case ammo was out of spec. They are totally inept.

PSA: Cancel this man Jon: Proceeds to make a shit post his most successful livestream to date.

The only channel I watch for pure honesty. Keep up the solid work sir 🤘🙏

Damn, that was very quick action from palmetto. I wish they would have fulfilled orders this fast.😒🙄 This is why i love this channel, complete transparency and honestly. No matter who it is. Keep on doing brother 💪

I'm very happy that all I've purchased from PSA has been parts made by others and their lowers. Lowers have been just fine, was always skeptical of their uppers and AKs. I'm glad I did not purchase an AK from them. Thanks Jon for the info, good times.

I’m a massive PSA meat rider but that level of QC fuck ups is unacceptable I’d be beyond pissed

SHHHHHH! You are going to get door kicked AND get your neighbors door kicked with your talking about consuming RAW MILK. That is worse than you announcing you have an unregistered form 1 silencer or SBR.

New subscriber here, I’ll go back and watch your Jakl review. As far as new gun reviews, I think T.Rex has the best approach by far. Anonymous purchase, no sponsorships, and an in depth performance review with a relatively high round count. Hop and Brass Facts are both unbeholden to any of these manufacturers and their unapologetic commentary is hugely welcome. Thanks for sharing your experience m8.

Allegedly

Look at you out there making friends. Keep up the good work.

This is a recall worthy screw up. How many rifles did they ship like this? This had to be a bad program if every gap is identically incorrect.

People have low or no standards these days. Those people will get upset with you if you think they should do better.

It’s standard operating procedure for PSA to do what they’re doing. Either way brother, make sure you go back and review any sort of contracts you previously signed and any NDA’s currently in place. Be especially careful with mentioning criminal language (“washing” & “laundering”) pertaining to various companies. Saying the word “allegedly” in no way absolves you from civil issues involving defamation. I’m personally a bit of a gun snob, so no dog in the fight for PSA.

I’ve been waiting 16 months for PSA’s customer service to get back to me about my Jakl…

I have bullied myself into selling my GF3 PSA underfolder. It has about 5.5k rounds on it over 4 years. Has ran fine with no issues but has more wear on the trunnions and lug corners than expected. Upgrading to Circle 11 matching kit build by a good builder. $650 to $1000 comparison.

*FWIW, I didn't even know gundeals had videos. And I go there every day.* *Ad-blocka FTW!*

I feel like its andrew vachon's goal to give you his life savings in these streams

The KAK 16" Dissipator I got from Focus Shooting LLC is very accurate. Radical Firearms RPR15 16" with stock ambi safety shoots very well for less than $500 and I would have no problem recommending them to friends and family on extreme budgets. Thanks for everything JC. - Godspeed

Good video, i appreciate you explaining how money really does change hands between manufacturers and gun tubers. And yes GT is on roids and trt, he happily admits it.

I purchased a PSA Dagger S a while back. It’s been reliable for the little over 500 rounds through it. But the slide does not go on the way it is supposed to. To get it to slide on, you have to pull down the takedown lever to get it to fit.

Outstanding! Unfortunate that being sued is a risk you have to take to be brutally honest.

As for the AAC/Sabre ammo... I built a Mk12 (Mock 12 because it doesn't have all the clone correct parts but I don't care) and been doing some ammo testing lately. A lot of the ammo has been AAC because of the price. Obviously if you find a cheap yet capable ammo for a precision rifle, you're in heaven. No one really wants to go to the range and shoot entire dollar bills out of their gun all afternoon. Shockingly, the Sabre 55gr FMJ has been performing exceptionally well through the 16" 1/7 barrel, producing 0.5" groups. That's excellent for my wallet and range time, and gives me a cheap yet capable round to stockpile. But no 55gr FMJ is going to have the effect on target at longer ranges that's really needed. So I tested out a dozen other AAC ammos from both their AAC and Sabre lines... The 77gr OTM do okay-ish with 1-1.5" groups (inconsistency bothers me), but when the barrel heats up they spread out too much. The other 77gr options performed about the same. The temperature of the barrel didn't seem to have much effect with the 55gr rounds. The 75gr, 69gr and a few others performed horribly. I'm going this weekend again to use Black Hills 77gr OTM Mk262 as the standard by which the others will be judged. I'm going to remove even more outside variables, and try to be even more fair to each round after I switch, and take longer breaks between firing iterations. But we'll see. So far the 55gr FMJ is the bee's knees. But that's all. The 77gr OTM for approximately $0.60ea may become a stockpile ammo for my short barreled carbines, though.

I love the AAC 77gr OTM. Purchased 200 rounds to try it a few months back for $0.65 cpr and it was shooting 0.70" groups. Then on Memorial Day sale they had it for $.045 cpr before tax/shipping so I ordered 1000. This latest batch is just as accurate, HOWEVER I noticed I'm getting odd fliers. Too bad I don't have a Chrono to test it, but I'm still going to keep buying more for this price.

Tbh I don’t hold the financial grind against any guntuber. I just want the content to watch with my kid.

Thank you for highlighting the stupidity in the logic of "just send it back and they'll replace it." Agreed 100%, when your warranty is THE selling point because they need to in order to prevent their cult followers from rioting, that's not a good thing. Spot on with everything said, I'll never understand why people defend psa's garbage quality assurance, or lack of rather

Honestly i never liked the Jackl wish they would focus only on improving the quality of their ARs and AKs.

If you're taking flak, you're over target. Isn't that the saying? Thanks for the share!!

I only buy PSA FN barrels rifles. Replace the handguard with whatever you want or use the plastic MagPul, works well enough for most accessories.

I’m with the Leviathan and I have never been paid for a product review. The only payment I have received has been for ad reads. As a smaller channel, the main reason I am with them is I get access to a YT rep should I have issues with my uploads. I try to be as transparent as possible on the financial earnings to ensure my content isn’t tainted.

King of the poors back with the Big Bang Theory comedy intro while also trying to stay nonchalant by stating “right on”

Filming with police body cams?

I feel a lot of people become very complacent with the income of fame, money, subscribers or attention. PSA is great and they have ingenuity and creativity. Very productive. But the QC issues here and there need tightened up. Hopefully those things aren’t getting to their heads and getting complacent. I still enjoy the company and their effort to arm every US Citizen with a decent rifle to protect their families and country. You have to respect them for that.

Doing the lords work👌

I get being unacceptable that they had this issue. I’m not in this type of industry so I am curious, when is it ok to contact a company about a lemon issue before blasting them on their product? How do you walk that line of being honest but still being fair? I’ve seen some people contact the company under a pseudonym to see if their customer service is actually helpful and responsive, and then you have even more info about the company. It seems like immediately dropping him was a retaliatory immature move. (Not trying to attack focus trip or PSA, I own 0 PSA stuff and have never bought from them).

Curious about the rifles Andro Corp is putting out? They say that they use A.O. Precision component's and ballistic advantage barrels.

I’ve had MANY PSA products. 8 firearms and 2 BCGs I only had 1 that needed customer service. Even that wasn’t a huge deal because the upper did work. So every thing works as advertised no issues at all for years with the exception of the one upper. The specific issue was the gas port on the barrel was oversized and the upper was significantly overgassed. It did function reliably but it did recoil hard and kick out brass at about 1:30 position. Slapped a new barrel in there and good to go. Now are they as nice as my more expensive guns? No but they are absolutely functional and literally no malfunctions from mine other than those I set up for training. I did have to tune a 300 black with adjustable gas block for subsonic ammunition but I expected that when I bought it.

Lurker gang checking in, like for the like God and comment for the comment throne! I have seen exactly one singular review of the Jackal that was positive that I believed, and that was from RGT. But even his had assembly issues. This is why I have historically gone for smaller shops for complete uppers like BKF (or now our glorious host Focus). BKF actually headspace and test every one of their complete uppers, and I have seen very good results in the past. The info on Leviathan is.... interesting. Allegedly.

It's funny (not ha ha funny) but I had mentioned that northtac had did me dirty on warranty for the fifth ronin12 I bought and not even a response. I'm just a small fry, working single dad and when I see northtac mech being sported it irk's me a little. So should I get rid of this account? I mean unsubscribe ?😉

PSA has never impressed me. Why people have been impressed by them has always baffled me. With century we at least know what we will get when we purchase. PSA, They make one change to a platform and they can't help but send out 200 bad rifles. Doesnt even matter if it is just a muzzle break. They still manage to outsource their R&D to the customer.

I hear the reason why they have qc problems because they produce so much but striving to do better is always good

Sad to see so much strife between gun-tubers and manufacturers/sponsors all of a sudden.

Yeah, I'm 0-4 with PSA uppers. I like their philosophy but their products don't hold up (if they work in the first place). You are definitely gonna get a nasty letter or two from lawyers for this one, Jon. 😂 Edit: I do own three of their lowers, which I bought stripped, all three are in spec(ish). One of them had an issue latching some magazines, but I fixed it by swapping out the mag latch to one that protrudes further into the mag well. That's not saying a whole lot, but for $150 for three stripped lowers it could be a lot worse.

PSA nerds out in full force. Almost bot like.

They’re doin Damage control even with that EOC lawsuit.

I recently just purchased a PSA premier upper and I had to clean it when I got it. It was really dirty and sticky. The bird cage looked used. It’s definitely not new. I just thought ordering one of their premier uppers it would come new at the least. It seems to me all of their products are blems. They work tho.

dude on the right is jack black

PSA when a product is out-of-spec: 🙈😴🤫 PSA when a reviewer is out-of-spec: 👀😡🗑️

I'm pretty sure that I only use their lower receivers.

The FCC viollation topic in regard from leviathan is just factually wrong. It’s not even close to an exemption. Every time I’ve been paid by leviathan I have to send an invoice to them with the invoice including the reason/link to the video in it.

Honestly found your channel through the Jokl video, and I'm glad I did. Did I want a 1300 dollar acr for people without true acr money? Yeah, but well, I want a decent gun.... so time for new ak, an import ak.

I just remembered, the PSA dagger had a deaign flaw with the locking block that caused the barrel feed ramp to smack magazines out of the gun. Their first revision fixed the issue, but only with OEM dagger barrels. I discovered this after I put an aftermarket Glock barrel in mine. At least PSA mailed a new locking block when I called them.

I don't believe all these people asking "Should I stop using XXXXXX" Do your own research and stop looking for one person's views/perspective. Buy what you like and what works for you, not someone else.

Why wouldn’t they just try to make it right or address it? 😂😂😂 Suing or deleting affiliate accounts don’t look good on their part 😂

I only have a FN barrel upper from PSA. I double checked it twice and put 800 rounds through it. Worked out well and is accurate enough for my needs. My brother's cheaper upper had issues( defaced bolt from the factory, mis-torqued A2, ect) but I was able to mix it. It seems the FN "premium" uppers get all the QC.

I love that you’re so transparent. Keep up the great work.

Interesting that’s actually the first time I heard anything about the Psa quotas and I have an affiliate account through avantlink with them. They’ve always just sent me something and never even asked me for a guarantee that I would make a video. They sent me a AK and a handful of AR kits. That I never made reviews on other than one AR kit and the AK. Never heard of a quota but I never actually read the avantlink agreement.

Lol I clicked cause I thought he was talking about print shoot repeat. I’m like how do you have beef with him? Psa is the chillest dude

SOLGW uppers are 400$ on sale. Crazy anyone would buy a PSA jakl.

Makes me really sad that PSA represents the beautiful Palmetto State so poorly. I have spent a lot of money in their stores, it's where I go for ammo and I own a few of their guns, and I hate that they keep doing shit to turn me away. I would love to support my local manufacturer but they simply don't deserve it except as the cheapest place to buy ammo in the state or to pick up a different manufacturer's gun. I'm 2 for 4 on PSA guns working. 2 ARs are fine, the AKV and 224 Valkyrie AR both had issues. Makes me so sad because they are out here doing fun stuff like the AKV, which would be my favorite gun if it didn't jam.

finally some honest content. i couldnt believe some of the psa garand thumb videos i saw. i was just lik ... wow dude

Stopped supporting PSA when they canceled my order of mags days (it was around a full week) prior to the passing of the Illinois AWB. Thankfully there are some far better companies out there who actually believe in liberty rather than just using it as a advertising motto.

PSA, BCA and the other cheapos get away with poor specs because 1. no one ever measures anything ... "its legos bro" and 2. 90% of their customer base doesn't shoot the guns they buy. I literally know a guy with like 20 BCA uppers that he's never shot. Most of which in weird calibers.

Not surprised, PSA is such a trashy company lol

We need a list of all KZfaqrs that are in partnership with Leviathan Tribe.

I've been watching your videos for several years now and I actually appreciate the honesty and your videos. I know that you're going to be giving us the best review you can. Which is sad to see what palmetto State armory is doing because one of their products was out of spec. But if you would like to read I've got a personal experience with palmetto State armory. I ordered a 10 and a half inch upper pistol kit back in 2019 at a wonderful price. And when I got it and put it together the upper was significantly out of spec. It turned out that the gas tube was misaligned in a pretty serious manner that caused the charging handle to press down on the bolt carrier group as you were racking it back. I would have to mortar it in order to get the bolt carrier group all the way back. I sent it back to palmetto State armory and they shipped it back without touching it, it sat in their factory according to the shipping logs for less than 24 hours before they had it back on a truck and being shipped back to me. Stating they found no issues with the upper. So I took a video and then I took some pictures of the charging handle having a significant amount of metal shaved off the top of it because it was so misaligned it was causing the metal to rub straight off. I sent those pictures to the customer service rep who had originally had spoken to, and he asked for me to send the upper back to him. I went ahead and fixed it myself it wasn't a big deal replace the charging handle but there are still significant gouges in my upper. Now since then it has been 100%, and even then it would shoot it just caused metal shavings. But it has thus far been the last palmetto State armory upper I've bought. I've owned four of their uppers and it was the only one out of spec, but their customer service just shipping it back to me that very next day without actually appearing to check the upper at all was a pretty big warning sign for me.

All the surplus 308 ive shot is about 3-6 moa. The psa 150gr soft point was about 1.25 moa and comparable to federal blue box 150 SP. the 77 and 75gr 556 shot about the same 1.25 moa

I bought an FN upper from them years ago. I think the reason i havent had any issues is because i didnt buy a bolt carrier from them and ive replaced the gas block and rail. The pin and weld job they did is good though. Internal anodizing and machining on the upper receiver could be better. But overall its a decent upper.

Dang... this calls into question AAC's reliability by association, though I have had zero issues with their 5.56 or 300 BLK or 9mm ammo. Have you had any issues with AAC? The fact that they were acquired separately might be a factor in their favor- with a different QC group and manufacturing process.

So many people came out to shill for psa its insane to me

GT reminds me of one of the guys who would sit in the COs office and kiss his ass while everyone else was cleaning the TA50 room.

Oh good gosh STOP buying PSA AKs. Just buy a WASR. Imported AKs are not $2500 that is just straight up incorrect. You can get an RH10 for $799 or a ZPAP for $1000 and they are built as good as you're going to get with the parts that actually matter; forged trunnions, milled bolts, chrome lined barrels.

Delta Team Tactical stuff looks a lot like Bear Creek Arsenal to me, I have only bought a few things from BCA and have had decent luck same with PSA, Anderson and Radical.

Leviathan is going to go with the Boeing playbook for this one 💀

respect to you for publicly stating that you’re a Poor, FocusTripp, not many do.

They are part of the "tribe" for sure.

If only PSA actually gave a shit and did the work instead of selling lemons that they know most people will hardly use.

Test and tren tho?!? 😂

Glad to see somebody taking PSA to task, I had a terrible experience with a Dagger, too many problems to list here, the tech dept told me to do a ramp and chamber polish and it should run just like my G19, after the phone rep hung up on me for requesting a refund, they attempted to run out the 30-day warranty, luckily I received a full refund with days to spare, will never buy a PSA product again.

Was Garand Thumb shooting AAC when that MP5 blew apart?

Armalite has been awesome 👌 in all my reviews

These are the best videos! For real and has nothing to do with the content. Its the turn on the camera and roll method. I dont watch many with alot of intros, edits and scripts. This raw live is my ideal watch and fav, and then spicy content is always a plus.

Something isn't making sense. 56K subs? I've seen this channel grow exponentially yet the numbers don't add up.

King of the Poors(PSA) vs. King of the Poors(focus trip)

This is disappointing,I have bought a couple PSA complete uppers with the CHF chrome lined barrels and they are amazing especially for the price.I’ve bought a couple stripped lowers as well and they have been everything you would expect them to be,a basic stripped lower With that being said,this is highly disappointing.I expected better from PSA.it’s disgusting they terminated your account for giving an honest.this is why you are my favorite guntuber channel.I respect honesty honesty over everything when it comes to these channels.thanks for keeping it real