I’ve got a Cayden .22 and Akela .177. I bought these inexpensive rifles to tear them apart and learn “airgunsmithing”, lol.
I’ve refinished the stocks in TruOil and did massive testing of optimizing hammer spring lengths. I previously did a trigger polishing on the Cayden - I got it breaking nicely at 11.5 ounces.
I’ve been shooting with 30 yard challenge with the Cayden recently, trying JSB 14.35g in it at 875fps. It hasn’t shot below 190 (in freezin windy conditions), so I’m falling in love with it all over again. These rifles shoot so far above their cost it’s ridiculous. I’ll put my tuned up Cayden and Akela’s accuracy up against my $1,500 rifles any day - they are that good.
Anyway, today was 11 degrees with heavy wind warnings, so I figured I’d do more optimizing on the Cayden…
I tore the trigger apart and polished every sear, the pins themselves, the inside of the trigger breech - everything. Used dry lube instead of CLP FP-10 for a change.
Put it back together and now I’ve got it breaking consistently around 5.5 ounces - and it passes the “bump test” . It shows just how far you can take these triggers with automotive paint sandpaper, Flitz and a Dremmel.
I was feeling so good about it that I took the bolt apart and hyper polished it - even though it was already smooth. I even stuck in a spring I got from a guy who runs Airgun Revisions - to see if it can improve on the performance of my 2.8” cut down stock spring.
I put it back together, put a chrono on it and dialed the spring in at 878fps. I’ll wait for a better day to try the 30 yard challenge with the “new” 5.5 ounce “target” trigger.
Optimizing your rifles is fun on these freezing New England days…. tomorrow I’ll likely do the same for the Akela, and maybe drop a Huma reg into the Huntsman…
I’ve refinished the stocks in TruOil and did massive testing of optimizing hammer spring lengths. I previously did a trigger polishing on the Cayden - I got it breaking nicely at 11.5 ounces.
I’ve been shooting with 30 yard challenge with the Cayden recently, trying JSB 14.35g in it at 875fps. It hasn’t shot below 190 (in freezin windy conditions), so I’m falling in love with it all over again. These rifles shoot so far above their cost it’s ridiculous. I’ll put my tuned up Cayden and Akela’s accuracy up against my $1,500 rifles any day - they are that good.
Anyway, today was 11 degrees with heavy wind warnings, so I figured I’d do more optimizing on the Cayden…
I tore the trigger apart and polished every sear, the pins themselves, the inside of the trigger breech - everything. Used dry lube instead of CLP FP-10 for a change.
Put it back together and now I’ve got it breaking consistently around 5.5 ounces - and it passes the “bump test” . It shows just how far you can take these triggers with automotive paint sandpaper, Flitz and a Dremmel.
I was feeling so good about it that I took the bolt apart and hyper polished it - even though it was already smooth. I even stuck in a spring I got from a guy who runs Airgun Revisions - to see if it can improve on the performance of my 2.8” cut down stock spring.
I put it back together, put a chrono on it and dialed the spring in at 878fps. I’ll wait for a better day to try the 30 yard challenge with the “new” 5.5 ounce “target” trigger.
Optimizing your rifles is fun on these freezing New England days…. tomorrow I’ll likely do the same for the Akela, and maybe drop a Huma reg into the Huntsman…