Stock Reinforcment-Different Approach
Hey Frank...great post. After contemplating a method similar to yours I decided on a different approach. I attached a picatinny rail almost the length of the stock fore end (aprox 10" or 11') attached with 3 evenly spaced screws to underside of the fore end of the stock. It did stop the flex of the fore end but I noticed flexing at the stock sides in the area of the receiver and trigger housing. I decided to remove the long picatinny rail and replace it with a shorter rail screwed just forward of the front action screw making sure not to interfere with the recoil lug. The result is I can mount and use a bi-pod with very little to no flex at all. It's not the optimum location to mount a bi-pod but it works. I find when using support other than a bi-pod it's best to rest the stock as far back as possible to reduce interfering with barrel float.
I choose this approach with the idea of a minimum modification other than drilling a few holes in the stock. If it didn't work I could just fill in the holes with epoxy and be essentially back to square one. I did do the filling in the grip etc to beef that area up.
.223 Axis stock an trigger job... Old man newbie here
"Carefully remove the barreled action so as to not let the pin fall out of the trigger assembly."
I did mine today that I just got, an didn't see any pin that could fall out, unless it did an I missed it somehow. Does the new axis .223's not have this pin, or is it now made to not fall out. The only pin I had out was the trigger pin with the e clip on it.
I guess a small pic with an arrow would help me out. Sorry, I do machine work, but I don't know what to do on this deal.... Look for one on floor or put it back together as is. UPDATE--Everything seems to work fine since I changed spring an set new screw for trigger stop.
On another note, I don't have the same grease that comes on the trigger mech. It looks like a graphite base type grease. But I do have some white synthetic waterproof marine grease thats slick as heck. Would that be alright in its place?
Thanx,
Ron :usa2: