Originally Posted by
pisgah
For you, maybe so, and more power to you. But not so for me, especially on a $237 rifle, and especially when ten minutes, a single screw that I already had on hand, and a spring that cost me $3 (with a nice ballpoint pen as an extra bonus -- the spring was cannibalized out of the other one) is danged near as smooth and clean as the Timneys I have known. Should your desire, or your circumstances, ever move you to sell your Axis, do you think you'll get that extra C-note back out of the deal? I doubt it. I doubt I'll get my $3, either, but who cares?