Hey lungbuster123, yes, I found a way to lighten the spring load. What I did was remove the spring and take it to any spring manufacturer and get them to put it in their spring compression measuring device and rate the actual spring load,i.e. mine was seven pounds,so i asked them to make me a couple of springs of various poundage,they made me one at 2.5 pounds ,one at 3 pounds and one at 4 pounds.at present I have the 3 pound spring fitted and I am finding that it is still a tad heavy. So next I will try the 2.5 pound, what you have to be weary of is slam fire so I would not go lower than 2.5 pound just to be on the safe side. Good luck. p.s it should only cost you 20 to30 bucks.