Savage Axis ------ Stocks

[Bookworm]

I was talking to the People at Boyd's Stocks today about a stock I am working on for a friend and I asked if they were going to make a replacement wood stock for the Axis.

Their answer was that if they had enough queries about them they would make them. I would ask anyone who is interested to go to Boyd's web site and fill out a product request form. Don't cost you anything and does not commit you to anything but if we get enough interest they will produce their stocks for this model.

I told them I want 2 and they do make a fine product at a reasonable cost.
With Timmey now making triggers for the Axis if we can get decent stocks you will be able to have yourself a Custom rifle at a decent price.

Dave

 

[WhelanLad]

are the Axis stocks alot better than the Stevens stocks??

 

[bobfortier]

I know that when I'l receive my Axis it is my plan do make a couple of stocks in walnut. Now the question is if I do them single shot or with a mag. I'll see.

 

[heavyBullet]

New stock + $100
New trigger + $100

Why not just buy a more improved rifle from the get go? These rifles are great for people on a tight budget, but if your going to put more cash on it not long down the road I would just hold off buying till I have the extra money.

 

[Bookworm]

New stock + $100
New trigger + $100

Why not just buy a more improved rifle from the get go? These rifles are great for people on a tight budget, but if your going to put more cash on it not long down the road I would just hold off buying till I have the extra money.

Lets see --- I need a deer rifle for a 10 year old so I pick up a 243 Axis Youth model which turns out to be a tack driver. $329.00

A year from now I instal a Timmey trigger -$100.00

Grandson grows so 2 years from now I install a Boyds stock -- $100.00

Since it is a Savage I can now change barrels next year --- $100.00

Total cost spread over 3 years $629.00 and he now has a rifle that compares to a $1000.00 custom that HIS GRANDFATHER built for HIM.

Works for me, but then I am on a budget and can not afford to buy 4 different rifles as he grows up

Dave

 

[Manitobahunter]

That's $329.00 with a scope.

 

[leah_rush]

are the Axis stocks alot better than the Stevens stocks??

I own an Axis/Edge (mines stamped Edge from before the name change) in .308 WIN. Things may have changed!

I can't compare stocks as I haven't shot a Stevens but I can say I don't care much for the Axis stock at all.

It's exceptionally light... too light for me. This makes hauling around a dream but I like a bit more beef for stability/recoil. Balance, however, feels good in my hands (slightly forward).

Length of pull is long for me as well, even more-so with a thick jacket.

The interior of the fore-end has a sort of skeletonized look, the front swing stud hole/support is clearly visible. The butt of the stock seems skeletonized inside as well. After initial cleanup and torquing of the pillar screws I noticed the free floating capability of the barrel channel was pretty much gone. The stock tip doesn't require much pressure at all to touch the barrel, and the sides of the channel even less so.

Adding a light stock to a light action and barrel makes .308 kinda punchy. Not a lot more, but enough that I'm considering buying back my steel butt Mosin for summer hi-cal plinking/practice. 10-20 shots and I put it away. Also being plastic with a sharp cheek rest it will only reward proper hold any punish anything else. The recoil pad is squishy and sticky, which I don't mind.

All in all, great to carry, bad for most everything else IMO.

I've also contacted Boyd's (and Savage) for a bump to the Axis owners. I love it's price point as is but the stock is a problem that needs rectifying. That and I want purple laminate so I can try a purple dura-coated bolt gun one day.

Forgot to add; one of the main hurdles I think for after market stocking is the push/pull safety. As far as I can tell it's a part of the stock itself and may also cause some grief so far as fit/function.

 

[hometownhero]

I have filled out a request for when I first got my axis'. Never heard anything back. But now I'm not sure if I would want wood as with the guns I have that are wood stocked I am worried about wrecking the finish but the tupperware stocks I could care less about as they are ugly.

 

[Republic of Alberta]

The Axis stock sucks balls.

And What the f**k is up with the 14 and quarter inch LOP? Be dammed if you want to shorten it up a bit with that dumb recoil pad insert. I cut one back to just over 13" today and it wasn't pretty. At least it is now a usable size for the average kid or woman (about the only people that would actually use one)


Trigger was the worst trigger I have ever had on a rifle, and it had little to no adjustment. Used a file to get it half decent.


That scope is GARBAGE mine has a piece of cardboard floating around in it. I don't trust it (or the rings) at all.


Shoots just over an inch