Originally Posted by
VAhuntr
My X-Bolt and a Tikka T-3 are the only factory rifles I own which did not need a trigger job, IMO. They only needed to be lightened.
Now to the original question, I wound up removing the screw completely and safety checked the rifle and all was well. My biggest concern is something getting in the trigger housing now that the scew is gone. I thought about covering the hole with a thin layer of silicon? Any other ideas?
You should be able to buy a much shorter allen head set-screw at any decent hardware store that will just fill the threaded hole and then blue (not red!) loctite into place.