First off, their .50 cal butt stock with the tack welded guide rods is in my opinion unsafe. We had one in our shop and the stock was pulled to far back by mistake so the guide rod needed reinserted and the spring was keeping it flexed and unable to go back in. We barely tapped it with a rubber mallet and it cracked both tack welds on both sides. The butt plate literally was falling off. It's a major flaw and if someone else had a similar issue or for some reason it was banged on something they could pull the trigger and have it literally pin them in the shoulder when the rods would inevitably slide past the butt plate. Frankly a 50 cal should be able to absorb a lot more punishment than someone tapping the butt plate with a rubber mallet. I won't even go into the details of the quality and how they literally krylon it for a finish coat so out of the box the paint is flaking off in numerous areas and in general the rifle looks like shit since I can see exposed metal everywhere.
Now for their 338 semi-auto... Never have I ever seen a manufacturer take a sharpy marker or whatever it was they used and literally try to touch up numerous scratches in the finish. Hell, they didn't even get all of them. There's one in particular on the gas block where you can tell when someone was inserting the roll pin and they must have slipped off and scratched the gas block. And the bolt... I can literally see where the machining was beyond piss poor and it's anything but quality. The safety operates like an unfolding lawn chair. The gas block with the picatinny rail doesn't even match up with the hand guard rail height. And for $4600+ you get an A2 grip with an un-enhanced trigger guard? Hell... Their fore arm doesn't even extend to the gas block coming up several inches short and leaving a large section of gas tube exposed.
Lastly... It says something about a company when a vendor has to literally make over 1/2 a dozen calls and emails to them before they can get a response in regards to a broken firearm. I can only imagine what a customer would have to do in order to get service. I've seen some shitty firearms and poor work done from numerous manufacturers, but as of late I have to put Noreen at the top. A sharpy marker? Seriously?
Now for their 338 semi-auto... Never have I ever seen a manufacturer take a sharpy marker or whatever it was they used and literally try to touch up numerous scratches in the finish. Hell, they didn't even get all of them. There's one in particular on the gas block where you can tell when someone was inserting the roll pin and they must have slipped off and scratched the gas block. And the bolt... I can literally see where the machining was beyond piss poor and it's anything but quality. The safety operates like an unfolding lawn chair. The gas block with the picatinny rail doesn't even match up with the hand guard rail height. And for $4600+ you get an A2 grip with an un-enhanced trigger guard? Hell... Their fore arm doesn't even extend to the gas block coming up several inches short and leaving a large section of gas tube exposed.
Lastly... It says something about a company when a vendor has to literally make over 1/2 a dozen calls and emails to them before they can get a response in regards to a broken firearm. I can only imagine what a customer would have to do in order to get service. I've seen some shitty firearms and poor work done from numerous manufacturers, but as of late I have to put Noreen at the top. A sharpy marker? Seriously?
I'd be very interested to see the pictures of both the Bad News and the 50BMG. I've been considering a 50BMG and the Noreen was on my short list.
