Tuning Gamo trigger screw repaacement

[egd]

I've seen here? or somewhere about replacing the trigger adjustment screw to lighten the trigger pull on the Gamo cat trigger. One guy will sell you the screw and allen wrench to do it for only $10. Well being the cheapskate I am, I went to Home Depot and bought a 3-pack of the same screw for 59 cents. I just replaced it and it does lighten the trigger some. It wasn't a bad trigger to begin with but it is better now.

You need the M2.5-45x8 screw. It will be in the pull out drawers where all the screws are.

 

[Odoyle]

File the tips to almost pointed you see far better improvement.

 

[egd]

That won't make the screw any longer, so is the part it's touching against inside the assembly angled in such a way that it can move more? The videos, etc. I saw said that you could put a longer screw (a 10 instead of 8) and that would lighten the trigger even more. But it also could make the gun unsafe by creating a hair trigger that could go off with a slight bump.

 

[Parrotculler]

That won't make the screw any longer, so is the part it's touching against inside the assembly angled in such a way that it can move more? The videos, etc. I saw said that you could put a longer screw (a 10 instead of 8) and that would lighten the trigger even more. But it also could make the gun unsafe by creating a hair trigger that could go off with a slight bump.

Sure, that is always the balancing act to be performed when lightening a trigger.

If the trigger has become so light that it fails the rubber mallet safety test, the set screw needs to be turned out (counter clockwise) slightly until the test is met.

Those Gamo triggers are actually very good, and a far cry from the Game trigger bashing you often read. Even the polymer has its purpose: it enables a lighter safe trigger than a metal one would in the drop test.