Axis stock

The Axis is a very good gun and accurate way beyond its price tag
Ask anyone who has shot one , i have owned two and both were surprisingly accurate out of the box.
 
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Why not just buy a good gun? No sense throwing good money after bad by "investing" into an Axis.
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The Axis is a good gun once you replace the crappy stock. I've shot axis rifles out past 400 yards and gotten sub MOA with them.

As for Boyds that is what I was looking at but didn't want the wait time of having something shipped across the border.
 
To the op why not improve the crappy stock....way cheaper then buying a new one. Rockite it. Or sacrete it. An axis Tupperware stock is super easy to improve upon immensely. Remove the action, mix up some anchoring cement fill the forend just to the top of the fins, let it harden (takes 10 mins) then remove the butt pad, tape over the hole where the goofy trigger guard fits into. Then pour a little cement into the pistol grip area and let it harden. If you need/want to improve the balance a bit. Just add spray foam and some 1oz fishing sinkers into the hollow stock cavity. While the foam is still soft hang some sinkers into it, let the foam harden up then snip the wires.

Then while you have it apart relieve the barrel channel with either a Drexel with a sanding wheel or a piece of dowel and sandpaper.
Ensure there is no contact by running a folded card or piece of paper between the stock and barrel when it's back together.

It's a quick, easy fix for an Axis and hugely improves the feel and rigidity of the crummy stock, helps absorb some recoil. It may even improve your groups.... Total cost $16.00 +tax .....if you want more info on it visit the savage shooters site

Note: I've did it to 2 Axis stocks and my model 11, I added a $15.00 cheek pad from Amazon to raise up my eye to scope alignment makes the axis feel like a real gun rather than a heavy barrel BB gun..for $30 bucks and an hour I think it was worth it!

If it seems like a PITA I guess Boyd's would be the other more costly option.
IMO I'd do the cheap stock modification yourself and spend your money on a timmney or basix trigger, do that and you may learn to love your Axis
 
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I've got an axis in .223 and I did the rockite job to the stock, only the forend this far, and took a turn and a half off the trigger spring. With some random loads using campro projectiles I threw together to function test the gun I was getting sub minute groups, in fact I put three shots in a quarter that I now wear around my neck daily. Great conversation piece ;)
 
I did the epoxy and carbon fiber arrow shaft route in the fore end, rocktite in the pistol grip area of the stock. I also did a cheap JBweld bedding job, and complete trigger job as shown on Social Regessive's YouTube channel (way better than just clipping the spring and very safe). Also added a Redfield scope. It's now a legitimate shooter for super super cheap. Don't spend the money on these guns to improve them.
 
I love my axis. But for like $235 for a scoped rifle package, what's not to love?

I've been wanting to get a boyds, but maybe I'll just spend a few bucks on the factory stock first, see if that is enough to make me happy...
 
The axis is like my wife. Every now and then I buy her a new dress so she keeps looking pretty and I don't go looking for a new model.

(I'm waiting for my wife to see this and kill me :p )
 
If you got an axis for a low price, doing somes of these cheap and easy improvements will give you some pride of ownership and it's nice to sit at the bench beside the guy with a 1000.00 + rig compare targets.

I neglected to say the very best improvement for an Axis pkg gun is to dump the $30.00 scope they come with. Get an egw rail some good quality rings and a decent optic. This advice I would suggest to anyone that buys any rifle.....don't cheap out on your optics. You don't have to go broke buying some decent glass but often you get what you pay for with scopes. Buy something decent if you decide to upgrade your rig later either you can transfer the scope to the new set up or sell it and retain some resell value.
 
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MDT makes a wonderful chassis for the axis, I have two I've done up, one in .223 as an Iron sighted target match rifle and the other in 7.62 x 39mm just cause I could.

Scott
 
cdn1canhunt said:
If you got an axis for a low price, doing somes of these cheap and easy improvements will give you some pride of ownership and it's nice to sit at the bench beside the guy with a 1000.00 + rig compare targets.

I neglected to say the very best improvement for an Axis pkg gun is to dump the $30.00 scope they come with. Get an egw rail some good quality rings and a decent optic. This advice I would suggest to anyone that buys any rifle.....don't cheap out on your optics. You don't have to go broke buying some decent glass but often you get what you pay for with scopes. Buy something decent if you decide to upgrade your rig later either you can transfer the scope to the new set up or sell it and retain some resell value.
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Yeah the very first Axis I bought was about 4 years ago. Took it out of the box at the range and with the stock optic I pulled a .75" grouping. Pretty funny since the guy beside me was running a Remington 700p and a nightforce scope and was only pulling the same size of grouping out of it.

But yes as for optics, I have Vortex scopes on all my guns.

I own about 6 Axis rifles in various calibers.
 
cdn1canhunt said:
To the op why not improve the crappy stock....way cheaper then buying a new one. Rockite it. Or sacrete it. An axis Tupperware stock is super easy to improve upon immensely. Remove the action, mix up some anchoring cement fill the forend just to the top of the fins, let it harden (takes 10 mins) then remove the butt pad, tape over the hole where the goofy trigger guard fits into. Then pour a little cement into the pistol grip area and let it harden. If you need/want to improve the balance a bit. Just add spray foam and some 1oz fishing sinkers into the hollow stock cavity. While the foam is still soft hang some sinkers into it, let the foam harden up then snip the wires.
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Any idea how much weight you added to the stock by doing this?
 
Not a lot....I think I added 6, 1 oz sinkers plus the foam, if you want to add more weight I've seen guys tape some 1" pvc pipes into the center of the hollow stock cavity then add rockite and let it harden.. Then add some shotgun shot into the pvc pipe and cap the pipes. you can add a fair bit of weight that way and the floating shot also reduces some recoil! Sort of like a Mercury tube recoil reducer?
 
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