My JG A47 arrived in the post yesterday. Quite nice when you actually have hold of the thing, especially considering it was less than a hundred quid including postage.
Apart from the fact that it has a curved AK-style mag (albeit shorter), it does look a lot like a Romanian PSL. The rear stock is perhaps a little bit on the flimsy side and could do with reinforcing a bit (not a tricky task, so I'm certainly gonna do that), but the rest of it, being metal, seems very robust. The ABS fore grip is certainly on there a lot more securely than the fore grip on the A&K SVD and doesn't creak like the A&K fore grip does.
Propped up next to my A&K SVD, it's about one and a half inches shorter than the SVD, but it weighs considerably less, in spite of the fact that it has a metal bipod. It's surprising to note that it's not too nose-heavy either, which I thought it might be, given that the rear stock is only hollow ABS and it has all that very long metal up the front end. What's nice is the fact that there is some internal structure inside the fore grip, so unlike a lot of AEG AKs and SVDs with no gas return tube, there is no glaringly obvious gap visible through the fore grip vent holes.
With the crappy two tone blue (paint) removed from the furniture (oven cleaner and brake fluid here we come), and that furniture made to look a bit more Romanian as far as wood colour goes, I think it might look quite cool. Like the SVD, it's certainly a very imposing looking thing, and I'm looking forward to giving it a whirl in woodland, since it will be nice to have something 'DMR/sniperish' which can go full auto. Mods to come I suspect will include a drum mag, an AK side rail and raised mount, removing the built in rear sight, and something along the lines of a Nikko-Sterling 3-9x50 scope on the thing on high mounts attached to that AK-style side mount, unless anyone knows of something which looks more like an LPS TIP2 that is suitable for airsoft engagement ranges.
