Screwing in the Axis trigger spring

[g-manz35]

I realize that the Axis trigger job threads are getting kind of old, but this is a bit different. I took apart the wife's Axis last night while contemplating doing a trigger job on it. Looking at the spring and where it threads into the trigger I noticed that the spring was not threaded all the way in and the yellow threading compound was very thin. I removed the spring and cleaned the remaining compound out of the threads. I then threaded the spring back in as far as it would go. I manger to drop the trigger pull down from 5.5 to 4.5 lbs just by screwing in the spring. Never heard of anyone doing this before. I tried searching it And all I could get was references to the spring cutting job that has become the common "fix". It's my wife's rifle and she is a relative newby to shooting so I don't want it much lighter than that anyhow.

Sorry for posting another Axis trigger thread. I just thought it was an easy fix that someone might be I retested in.

 

[wjt]

Yeah. I have read that somewhere but I haven't tried it as I had another spring in my stash that worked. I may still try that one day as I still have the original spring. I have read that a spring from a mechanical pencil (Pilot G2 or G3) will work. Ballpoint pen springs are too small to fit around the setscrew guide. Also found the spring from a red&white fishing float to be too heavy. I always tear stuff apart that is going in the garbage to find useful stuff. If it's going in the garbage anyway, it doesn't matter if it's broken or really broken. Just don't cut your original because if you fvck up you will be fvcked. Keep looking till you find something better, but what you did is still better than the way it came. Don't change anything you can't change back to original.