Hadn't seen the bottom of it. Interesting they went with completely smooth bottom and no provisions for any pic rails.
Definitely cut as much as they could out to get the price down. Pretty sure there is no adjustment on the fit of the mag anymore.
Yeah, but we would have to see the top to tell for sure if they got rid of that hardware. I imagine they did as I agree that it appears that to bolster sales they gouged out as much cost as possible while retaining main features.
I have two rifles in later versions of the OG JAE and I still love them. They are very rigid.
I did a few things to make it fit a bit better. Got rid of their butt pad (which I did not like at all) and put on a thin Kick-eez and reduced the LOP by almost .75”….haha, I think. Between .5 and .75.
I have Tyler Kemp’s grips on them to move the grip front strap forward and reduce the reach to the trigger shoe. Very important for those of us who never played in the NBA! lol
Newer chassis offerer a wider range of adjustment and it seems rifle shooters have come to understand that you need to make the gun fit the shooter and not the other way around.
The main thing I wish the JAE had was an adjustable butt pad. I don’t care as much about canting the toe out to fit my shoulder pocket as I would a shotgun as I don’t shoot 22 lbs rifles across my body and off-hand. Haha. My butt pad is far inward where that’s not a big issue.
But I would like to adjust the pad vertically. Really, move it up a bit. I can have my buddy grind up some adjustable butt hardware (as we use on skeet guns) but that would eat up my LOP reduction from the thinner pad.
I still really like my JAE. However, in the next few months I’ll have a full up Vision with all the adjustments of new chassis. Even an adjustment up/down for the bag rider. I don’t know that I’ll like it (prob will love it) but I’ll give it a try. I almost feel like I’m cheating on my JAE’s.
One of mine. Cheers