I have an Axis, but it's the old one without the Accutrigger. My wife got it for me a 6 years ago for my 50th birthday. Mine is in .308 with the lightweight barrel. My observations are as follows.
1. The plastic stock is a flimsy piece of crap.
2. The action, and barrel that came in it is very accurate.
I didn't know anything about the Axis at the time so I started looking online, got on a Savage forum, you tube videos... everything I could think of. First thing I found out is it's real easy to do a trigger job on them. You can clip off one coil of the spring, or replace it with a different spring... Mine had no creep, but was a bit heavy. Now, with one coil gone, it's real nice. You shouldn't have to deal with that with the newer guns. I found some guy making custom bolt handles, so I had him do me up one just for fun. I like it a lot better that the stock one. Not needed, but it was a cool little touch. I sent him mine, he did the new knob on it. The stock, I just could not live with, so I ordered one from Boyds. This completely transformed the gun. Now it looked like the guns in the catalogs that I lusted after as a teenage boy... The added weight helped a bit with recoil too. Having the lightweight barrel does mean, it will start to string if I do a long range session, but it was built as a hunting gun anyway. It will do under .75" with Fed GMM, and 1.25" with Core-lokt. (from the bench)
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