I know to people that have them one is under the remington name and one under the Baikal name. Both are 12/223, they seem to like them they use them for turkey hunting in wv. I don't know about the hard trigger pull, but the one that has the Baikal name was hard to get the barrels to shot close the the same point of aim. The remington was right on, they got the other to shot but it took awhile to regulate it, luckily it was new and the owners manual told them how to do it.