Awesome talking points. I really want one, but I think I'm going to wait for at least a Gen 2 and see if they beef up the bolt cam, charging handle frame and mag/slide release button.
I gotta say, I really like my Jakl. Not so much how its front heavy and how it gets hot so fast but overall, I really like it. That being said, I dont think its a duty rifle… but not a range toy either. If that makes any sense… its a solid platform. I get a feeling PSA will produce a gen2 in the near future and address the weight, the charging handle rattling, heat distribution and part compatibility. Cool video, man.
Thanks man and I like it too, but I try my best to base my opinion around the longevity use of the rifle. While this thing looks to last for a while, so did a few other psa rifles I’ve owned and they didn’t make the cut….. not saying I hate psa one bit, I talk with the rep every now and then and see how they operate and I really like psa as to what they stand for. But the longevity and qc of their firearms just doesn’t seem to cut it, that’s why I do what I do and don’t throw in the towel being done with them. I’m gonna keep coming back to them with these issues when a rifle breaks and force them to fix it! Josiah at psa seems very interested when I come to him with a problem and he seems very hands on, he’s asking my opinion and what I think would cure the problem I’m having in the moment(not that I’m a gunsmith or anything), so they have intent on building a product that’ll last and that gives me hope to keep trying and striving for a better product for the us the consumers who like psa! Now, I haven’t used the jakl enough to bash it and it seems like a tough system but I see a few flaws and it’s like you said and I agree that they’ll come out with a gen2 that’s a tank! Or maybe this one will have zero issues and I’m griping for no reason. 😊😎🇺🇸
Im sure they’ll improve this firearm as time goes by. Psa usually fixes their issues which is why I wouldn’t worry too much about any potential problems.
Agreed! If I’ve ever had an issue with them they set it straight. Psa puts out a product that beats all prices and is super reliable, imo there’s no company that beats psa!
The weight is on par with my scar and Bren 2…not as heavy as my scar16 for sure…lighter than the imi Carmel as well. Weight is a common issue if you haven’t handled other non ar15 5.56 rifles
Now that would be awesome, maybe they’ll make a gen 2 and make more parts compatible. They have the tooling and money to do whatever they want, doing this shouldn’t be an issue! 😊
Lot of rifles have proprietary parts, the scar, bren, aug to name a few. The "slop" you mentioned in the piston isn't a concern. Are you familiar with AKMs? The JAKL uses a very similar long stroke piston as the proven AKM, there is a lot of wiggle in that system because it was designed that way. Good video and I'm glad you pointed out the ugg boot
Thanks man. I’m very familiar with aks, in fact this has way more wobble than the psa aks romanian aks and bulgy aks I have or had. It even rotates a little, I don’t think it’s gonna break or anything and I understand the wiggle helps with reliability but I was just pointing that out. Also the reason I mentioned the proprietary parts is because it has a ar15 type bolt and I’ve had their bolts break (from psa), ar15s are very common and it would be cool if they made some of the really important parts interchangeable. I do understand as well the jakl is a piston system and ars are direct impingement so that’s already a huge difference, my point is this rifle would be bomb proof if all of the main important parts were interchangeable. 😊
That’s definitely a plus, but what about the bolt? Or do you mean an entire carrier bolt included? Either way I have no beef with the jakl I think it’s cool, I’m curious how it’ll wear in after thousands of rounds. If this thing holds up and has no heavy wear patterns this would be a dope rifle to own!
@@OPERATORonaBUDGET whole BCGs are available. And yeah. The piston wobbles on mine. Pretty sure it's like that in order to get past the charging handle and sled
I own a few imports and American made aks, they don’t have anywhere near the wobble this thing has. Aks do wobble 100 percent but this piston wobbles so much you can turn it and it feels fragile.
This is an AK type long stroke gas piston system, therefore there is no need for gas rings like you would see on a direct impingement system. The play in the piston is of no consequence. I expect that with the long stroke piston system, this rifle will be very reliable.
Not an UGG boot stock. Also not PSA’s stock. Tge SCAR Ugg boot stock is kind of thrash (i literally broke one overseas). I think the stock is made by B5. It is basically a one for one clone of out of production the old school MagPul ACR stock but it folds to the left instead of the right. I do agree that the JAKL is a hefty rifle. Probably easily a 9lbs rifle without an optic. It is also super front heavy like you said. On the plus side I think the weight might come in handy since I have a feeling like the SCAR that it might have been designed to shoot 7.62x51mm. I also think their bolt catch is trash. I ended up taking it out, cutting off the paddle off of a PDQ bolt catch and it fit with some minor stoning. All and all not a bad weapon system. That being said, there are other options at a similar price point with less weight.
Great review! Despite the issues due to proprietary of manufacturer (PSA), I will get the Jakl and the pistol version to go with my other 4 PSA AR15's and AR10's.....😀😀😀😀
It’s really a awesome rifle, the more I get to know it I have a different opinion when it comes to this rifle. Anytime I do these type reviews I try to give my full opinion along with how it runs, we still need to hit that break in point and whatnot but I think this rifle will preform great. And if it doesn’t psa will fix it and make it better! Psa makes the cheapest reliable ar15s imo, no other company puts out ar15s that are as reliable and as cheap as they do it! You can’t go wrong with picking them! 😊
@@OPERATORonaBUDGET Great opinion!!! PSA always learns from their failed products in the last few years as some bigger manufacturer's such as Ruger's SFAR and Springfield Armory's Prodigy are very slooowww to respond to product failures....👍👍👍
Nice rifle 👍 I agree that the bolt catch should be beefed up and out if need be to give it some more ass. I don’t necessarily see the need to criticize a proprietary rifle though for having proprietary parts 😆. Honesty people know it’s going to have a unique bolt and some other parts. If that is a concern, yeah buy yourself a spare bolt. Don’t knock it though for being different than your garden variety AR.. it’s kind of a given. Tbh, I think they did pretty well with how many parts are actually AR parts. That’s a pretty high degree of commonality. The piston play is pretty normal on an AK fwiw 👍
What I was thinking. I have had AKs with similar piston play and so does my Daewoo. I have yet to ever break an AK prison or my Daewoo (kind of a concern on the Daewoo since it is a very expensive rifle now with next to zero replacement parts out there).
So the sig tango 1-6 weighs in at 1.25 lbs, that’s very light! I know it looks heavy but I’m telling you that size really deceives you into thinking it’s heavy, I have a 20inch a4 that has a carry handle and on top of the carry handle I have the vortex 5x prism. Plus I have the Midwest rifle length drop in rail, with all of that it comes in at just over 8 pounds. The jakls heavy and very front heavy, but that’s my opinion. Not saying the rifle sucks but compared to something for similar use that’s 4 inches longer and the 20 inch is a way older system too, the jakl should be lighter and perfectly balanced. I love psa I think that a few little tweaks and this thing will be bomb.!.!.! 😊
Oh i know, i had a 1 to 6 sig on my virtus. Should of keept it but thought the bren 2 was better because lighter, but the sif shot flat just for my jakl thurs and its 17° with 2pmph winds so definitely not shooting it. And its gonna be below 10 most the rest of the weekenweek@OPERATORonaBUDGET
Wow I had to look these up to see what you was talking about, I did not know about Robinson’s until you mentioned them, thank you! How long have those been out and how well do they hold up? They’re double the price so they should be better, right? 😊
@@OPERATORonaBUDGET I own a Generation 1 XCR and it's around 20 years old. It runs like a scalded dog.... They lost the SCAR program many many moons ago on a technicality . It's a great rifle that uses AK , FN FAL & AR concepts together.
just received mine and my only gripe is the weight. Its definitly due to just how thick the upper and rail are. They could have made it half the thickness and been ok. But yeah its a tank of a rifle.
“ I love all PSA stuff”….then you say that is shit and this will brake or that may brake. Did you research anything about the firearm before you bought it? And if you did you bought it knowing the information you shared, and you shit on it anyway. A scar is heavy and has proprietary parts, would you have talked the same crap, I understand it’s just a PSA so it’s okay to talk crap about it. I will never understand why you spend your money on something to complain about it.
Never know. My LWRC M6IC rifle has gas rings and it is a piston rifle. Never thought about it till he said it in the video but I wonder if the gas rings were put in to reduce wear inside the BCG.
@@Gunner-ll1zd I’ve got about 4 k through my ak556 and man it’s ran flawlessly, I had issues when it was brand new with it cycling 223 ammunition but since then no issues. The thing is such a soft shooting rifle and it’ll put out some bad a$S groups for what it is. Definitely get one it’s a solid rifle overall imo!
I would probably go AK556 all day due to weight. Probably a little cheaper overall as well. Well maybe. I just spent like close to eight bills on MI Alpha AK parts. Hovering closer to a 2k rifle and I don’t even have an optic or light for it lol.
@SGTSlaughter0607 the ak 556 is a few bills cheaper but now I’ve owned it for a year and a few months and man the things is performing perfectly, I have about 5k through it and the internal parts look as if they’re brand new. That’s why I always recommend that rifle, the jakl on the other hand doesn’t get shot a lot compared to the ak556 and to me it doesn’t seem as practical and or a nuisance to carry compared to the ak556. But that’s my experience with the two, other opinions may vary. 😊
Awesome talking points. I really want one, but I think I'm going to wait for at least a Gen 2 and see if they beef up the bolt cam, charging handle frame and mag/slide release button.
They already beefed up the charging handle frame. Received mine last week.
I gotta say, I really like my Jakl. Not so much how its front heavy and how it gets hot so fast but overall, I really like it. That being said, I dont think its a duty rifle… but not a range toy either. If that makes any sense… its a solid platform. I get a feeling PSA will produce a gen2 in the near future and address the weight, the charging handle rattling, heat distribution and part compatibility. Cool video, man.
Thanks man and I like it too, but I try my best to base my opinion around the longevity use of the rifle. While this thing looks to last for a while, so did a few other psa rifles I’ve owned and they didn’t make the cut….. not saying I hate psa one bit, I talk with the rep every now and then and see how they operate and I really like psa as to what they stand for. But the longevity and qc of their firearms just doesn’t seem to cut it, that’s why I do what I do and don’t throw in the towel being done with them. I’m gonna keep coming back to them with these issues when a rifle breaks and force them to fix it! Josiah at psa seems very interested when I come to him with a problem and he seems very hands on, he’s asking my opinion and what I think would cure the problem I’m having in the moment(not that I’m a gunsmith or anything), so they have intent on building a product that’ll last and that gives me hope to keep trying and striving for a better product for the us the consumers who like psa! Now, I haven’t used the jakl enough to bash it and it seems like a tough system but I see a few flaws and it’s like you said and I agree that they’ll come out with a gen2 that’s a tank! Or maybe this one will have zero issues and I’m griping for no reason. 😊😎🇺🇸
Im sure they’ll improve this firearm as time goes by. Psa usually fixes their issues which is why I wouldn’t worry too much about any potential problems.
Agreed! If I’ve ever had an issue with them they set it straight. Psa puts out a product that beats all prices and is super reliable, imo there’s no company that beats psa!
The weight is on par with my scar and Bren 2…not as heavy as my scar16 for sure…lighter than the imi Carmel as well. Weight is a common issue if you haven’t handled other non ar15 5.56 rifles
They should find away to use a regular AR bolt so that it is interchangeable. Same with the cam😊
Now that would be awesome, maybe they’ll make a gen 2 and make more parts compatible. They have the tooling and money to do whatever they want, doing this shouldn’t be an issue! 😊
I thought it was an ar bolt but with a different cam
i thought the stock was so cool until you called it an ugg boot lmao. now i cant unsee it! 😭😭😭😭😭😭
It's been dubbed the tactical Ugg since the SCAR, lol
🤣 🤣 I know man, the first time they called the scars stock an ugg boot I couldn’t unsee it either!
Long Stroke Piston system is going to heavier than a Direct impingement gas system for sure.
Lot of rifles have proprietary parts, the scar, bren, aug to name a few. The "slop" you mentioned in the piston isn't a concern. Are you familiar with AKMs? The JAKL uses a very similar long stroke piston as the proven AKM, there is a lot of wiggle in that system because it was designed that way. Good video and I'm glad you pointed out the ugg boot
Thanks man.
I’m very familiar with aks, in fact this has way more wobble than the psa aks romanian aks and bulgy aks I have or had. It even rotates a little, I don’t think it’s gonna break or anything and I understand the wiggle helps with reliability but I was just pointing that out. Also the reason I mentioned the proprietary parts is because it has a ar15 type bolt and I’ve had their bolts break (from psa), ar15s are very common and it would be cool if they made some of the really important parts interchangeable. I do understand as well the jakl is a piston system and ars are direct impingement so that’s already a huge difference, my point is this rifle would be bomb proof if all of the main important parts were interchangeable. 😊
Phase 5 extended bolt release will work. You have to remove a little material tho
Thank you that’s good information! 😊🙏
PSA does sell an entire carrier. And I have considered messing with the piston
That’s definitely a plus, but what about the bolt? Or do you mean an entire carrier bolt included? Either way I have no beef with the jakl I think it’s cool, I’m curious how it’ll wear in after thousands of rounds. If this thing holds up and has no heavy wear patterns this would be a dope rifle to own!
So your piston has the same wobble to it?
@@OPERATORonaBUDGET whole BCGs are available. And yeah. The piston wobbles on mine. Pretty sure it's like that in order to get past the charging handle and sled
I own a few imports and American made aks, they don’t have anywhere near the wobble this thing has. Aks do wobble 100 percent but this piston wobbles so much you can turn it and it feels fragile.
This is an AK type long stroke gas piston system, therefore there is no need for gas rings like you would see on a direct impingement system. The play in the piston is of no consequence. I expect that with the long stroke piston system, this rifle will be very reliable.
Not an UGG boot stock. Also not PSA’s stock. Tge SCAR Ugg boot stock is kind of thrash (i literally broke one overseas). I think the stock is made by B5. It is basically a one for one clone of out of production the old school MagPul ACR stock but it folds to the left instead of the right. I do agree that the JAKL is a hefty rifle. Probably easily a 9lbs rifle without an optic. It is also super front heavy like you said. On the plus side I think the weight might come in handy since I have a feeling like the SCAR that it might have been designed to shoot 7.62x51mm. I also think their bolt catch is trash. I ended up taking it out, cutting off the paddle off of a PDQ bolt catch and it fit with some minor stoning. All and all not a bad weapon system. That being said, there are other options at a similar price point with less weight.
Great review! Despite the issues due to proprietary of manufacturer (PSA), I will get the Jakl and the pistol version to go with my other 4 PSA AR15's and AR10's.....😀😀😀😀
It’s really a awesome rifle, the more I get to know it I have a different opinion when it comes to this rifle. Anytime I do these type reviews I try to give my full opinion along with how it runs, we still need to hit that break in point and whatnot but I think this rifle will preform great. And if it doesn’t psa will fix it and make it better! Psa makes the cheapest reliable ar15s imo, no other company puts out ar15s that are as reliable and as cheap as they do it! You can’t go wrong with picking them! 😊
@@OPERATORonaBUDGET Great opinion!!! PSA always learns from their failed products in the last few years as some bigger manufacturer's such as Ruger's SFAR and Springfield Armory's Prodigy are very slooowww to respond to product failures....👍👍👍
Nice rifle 👍 I agree that the bolt catch should be beefed up and out if need be to give it some more ass. I don’t necessarily see the need to criticize a proprietary rifle though for having proprietary parts 😆. Honesty people know it’s going to have a unique bolt and some other parts. If that is a concern, yeah buy yourself a spare bolt. Don’t knock it though for being different than your garden variety AR.. it’s kind of a given. Tbh, I think they did pretty well with how many parts are actually AR parts. That’s a pretty high degree of commonality. The piston play is pretty normal on an AK fwiw 👍
What I was thinking. I have had AKs with similar piston play and so does my Daewoo. I have yet to ever break an AK prison or my Daewoo (kind of a concern on the Daewoo since it is a very expensive rifle now with next to zero replacement parts out there).
how to make a heavy rifle havier....put a sig lpvo un it. i got an acog on my jakl, not too bad. bout 9lb with light
So the sig tango 1-6 weighs in at 1.25 lbs, that’s very light! I know it looks heavy but I’m telling you that size really deceives you into thinking it’s heavy, I have a 20inch a4 that has a carry handle and on top of the carry handle I have the vortex 5x prism. Plus I have the Midwest rifle length drop in rail, with all of that it comes in at just over 8 pounds. The jakls heavy and very front heavy, but that’s my opinion. Not saying the rifle sucks but compared to something for similar use that’s 4 inches longer and the 20 inch is a way older system too, the jakl should be lighter and perfectly balanced. I love psa I think that a few little tweaks and this thing will be bomb.!.!.! 😊
Oh i know, i had a 1 to 6 sig on my virtus. Should of keept it but thought the bren 2 was better because lighter, but the sif shot flat just for my jakl thurs and its 17° with 2pmph winds so definitely not shooting it. And its gonna be below 10 most the rest of the weekenweek@OPERATORonaBUDGET
The Strike Industry Bolt catch will work
@Butters. it's the strike industry enhanced bolt catch. Send me your email, I will send you a pic.
That has Robinson XCR all over it............. If you know you know
Wow I had to look these up to see what you was talking about, I did not know about Robinson’s until you mentioned them, thank you! How long have those been out and how well do they hold up? They’re double the price so they should be better, right? 😊
@@OPERATORonaBUDGET I own a Generation 1 XCR and it's around 20 years old. It runs like a scalded dog.... They lost the SCAR program many many moons ago on a technicality . It's a great rifle that uses AK , FN FAL & AR concepts together.
Yeah didn’t they lose out on the scar deal due to not having a blank firing adapter? 😂 that’s shitty
@@LordNotlek Yep... I actually own one of the Gen 1 XCR rifles and it runs like a scalded dog...
@@TZOID08 luuucckkky
just received mine and my only gripe is the weight. Its definitly due to just how thick the upper and rail are. They could have made it half the thickness and been ok. But yeah its a tank of a rifle.
“ I love all PSA stuff”….then you say that is shit and this will brake or that may brake. Did you research anything about the firearm before you bought it? And if you did you bought it knowing the information you shared, and you shit on it anyway. A scar is heavy and has proprietary parts, would you have talked the same crap, I understand it’s just a PSA so it’s okay to talk crap about it. I will never understand why you spend your money on something to complain about it.
It’s not mine….
Just saying if heard from Matt at psa that the bolt is supposed to have that slop.
I ordered the MBT stock kit. I know B&T pushes a little higher quality stuff and overpriced weapons.
The bolt dosen’t need gas rings because it is a piston operated system.
I know…. I never said it needed gas rings, I only said that It would be cool if it did have gas rings for compatibility.
Have you tried taking the gas rings out of a standard ar bolt and see if it will work?
@@Sleepeasy-qw8nx no I haven’t, but that’s a great idea I will try that! 🙏🤙
@@OPERATORonaBUDGET definitely update me please.
Never know. My LWRC M6IC rifle has gas rings and it is a piston rifle. Never thought about it till he said it in the video but I wonder if the gas rings were put in to reduce wear inside the BCG.
That’s a clone of the ACR stock my guy not the scar only difference is theirs doesn’t have the slot on the bottom for the sling loop
I love my JAKL to death, hopefully they address the barrel/chamber screws loosening. Nothing a lil red loctite and torque wrench can’t handle for now
The stock is Jenky at best.
Wait for Gen 2 gang
This or the ak556?
Ak556 all day imo!
Thank you. I've been looking at getting an ak556 or ak101 from psa. I like the idea 556 takes ar mags and has a last round bolt hold open.
@@Gunner-ll1zd I’ve got about 4 k through my ak556 and man it’s ran flawlessly, I had issues when it was brand new with it cycling 223 ammunition but since then no issues. The thing is such a soft shooting rifle and it’ll put out some bad a$S groups for what it is. Definitely get one it’s a solid rifle overall imo!
I would probably go AK556 all day due to weight. Probably a little cheaper overall as well. Well maybe. I just spent like close to eight bills on MI Alpha AK parts. Hovering closer to a 2k rifle and I don’t even have an optic or light for it lol.
@SGTSlaughter0607 the ak 556 is a few bills cheaper but now I’ve owned it for a year and a few months and man the things is performing perfectly, I have about 5k through it and the internal parts look as if they’re brand new. That’s why I always recommend that rifle, the jakl on the other hand doesn’t get shot a lot compared to the ak556 and to me it doesn’t seem as practical and or a nuisance to carry compared to the ak556. But that’s my experience with the two, other opinions may vary. 😊
10 lbs ! Dam ! Thats heavy to hump around unless your a barret operator 😅
Try humping around a 240, M2 or MK19
where can i get this stock????
It's definitely a toy with psa Qc quality