I just shot the Norc yesterday for the first time and went through 75 rounds of Norc .223 without a single hiccup. Finish is not perfect but I wasn't expecting it to be, same finish that I'm used to with the military M16s I've handled in ROTC so I guess that's part of why I wasn't so surprised. Haven't really handled a high end AR so maybe I don't know what I'm missing in terms of "fit and finish". Trigger pull is heavier than, say a Glock 17, but again, it's the first AR I've fired so I don't really know how to gauge it. Shot a decent group to 50 meters without me having to adjust the sights, so it seems it was zeroed out of the box. I will go to another range to zero at 25 meters so I can check it better as the range yesterday only allowed zero at 50 meters for a few rounds and then you have to actually go shoot at 100 meters. Anyway, overall, extremely happy for a $530 AR.