I was just assigned a brand new 700 tactical and got to see 6 others in action. The finish is rough, but I think it's supposed to be that way. I'm perfectly happy with the new trigger and when I finally sat down with it at the bench (don't get to use it when qualifying so I didn't really see what it was capable of til later) it shot half inch groups with a random handload( 150 sierra pro hunter)after I had shot 100ish rounds through it without cleaning.

"For some unfortunates, poisoned by city sidewalks ... the horn of the hunter never winds at all" Robert Ruark, The Horn of the Hunter