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My Savage Axis .17HMR is a jam-o-matic POS....
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Luke 22:36
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Trusting your life to the benevolence of an armed criminal is not a strategy, it is stupid!
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Originally Posted By shotar: I had no idea they made the Axis in Rimfire. Every one I've ever seen has been centerfire. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By shotar: Originally Posted By BLKVooDoo: My Savage Axis .17HMR is a jam-o-matic POS.... I had no idea they made the Axis in Rimfire. Every one I've ever seen has been centerfire. It is accurate as heck when it runs. I will say that. |
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Luke 22:36
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My son & I have always had matched rifles.
We started him deer hunting with a Stevens 200 (Savage 110) in .270 (bought a pair of them from a Texas member here) so we had matched rifles & scopes. When WAY back when WalMart was doing blow out clearances on guns before all the craziness, I bought us a pair of camouflaged Axis 30.06. between the Clearance Price and the Rebates I think they were under $90 each and that included the scope & mounts too... We upgraded from the included Bushnell scopes and they have been great deer & hog hunters doing everything we expect if we do our part. Very happy & have been surprisingly accurate with a range of 150 - 165 grain 30.06 loads. BIGGER_HAMMER |
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LIFE'S JOURNEY IS NOT TO ARRIVE AT THE GRAVE SAFELY IN A WELL PRESERVED BODY,
BUT RATHER TO SKID IN SIDEWAYS, TOTALLY WORN OUT SHOUTING "HOLY $H!T...WHAT A RIDE"!! |
Originally Posted By Bigger_Hammer: My son & I have always had matched rifles. We started him deer hunting with a Stevens 200 (Savage 110) in .270 (bought a pair of them from a Texas member here) so we had matched rifles & scopes. When WAY back when WalMart was doing blow out clearances on guns before all the craziness, I bought us a pair of camouflaged Axis 30.06. between the Clearance Price and the Rebates I think they were under $90 each and that included the scope & mounts too... We upgraded from the included Bushnell scopes and they have been great deer & hog hunters doing everything we expect if we do our part. Very happy & have been surprisingly accurate with a range of 150 - 165 grain 30.06 loads. BIGGER_HAMMER View Quote Yeah, I couldn't find any ammo that I considered inaccurate. I also noted that I really didn't get any zero shift between loads at 100yds. |
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Trusting your life to the benevolence of an armed criminal is not a strategy, it is stupid!
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I recently got a new savage axis XP. The scope is a weaver that came with it. I tried the Leupold single piece base and the screws didn’t fit. What base did you use?
For a short action, the bases are faaaaaaaar apart. |
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Trusting your life to the benevolence of an armed criminal is not a strategy, it is stupid!
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Trusting your life to the benevolence of an armed criminal is not a strategy, it is stupid!
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I have one of the older Axis II in 25-06. It’s very accurate. Have shot deer, pigs, and coyotes with it. It came with the Weaver Kaspa 3-9x40 scope which surprised me at how clear it was for a cheap scope. They are good guns. I’ve been thinking about using it to hunt with this season. It’s more accurate than I am for sure.
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Originally Posted By wild_Texas: I have one of the older Axis II in 25-06. It’s very accurate. Have shot deer, pigs, and coyotes with it. It came with the Weaver Kaspa 3-9x40 scope which surprised me at how clear it was for a cheap scope. They are good guns. I’ve been thinking about using it to hunt with this season. It’s more accurate than I am for sure. View Quote I actually put the weaver on my 1903 sporter in .270. It has worked well in that roll. |
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Trusting your life to the benevolence of an armed criminal is not a strategy, it is stupid!
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I rattle wherever I plea-he-he-hease...
LA, USA
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Originally Posted By 20229mm: I recently got a new savage axis XP. The scope is a weaver that came with it. I tried the Leupold single piece base and the screws didn't fit. What base did you use? For a short action, the bases are faaaaaaaar apart. View Quote |
“Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we dream.” -T.K. Whipple
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Originally Posted By 20229mm: I recently got a new savage axis XP. The scope is a weaver that came with it. I tried the Leupold single piece base and the screws didn’t fit. What base did you use? For a short action, the bases are faaaaaaaar apart. View Quote @20229mm Think i read that savage changed the thread pitch on the mounting holes on the axis.fyi My axis ii heavy barrel was supposed to be a bargain entry into CM but turned into a project gun. Love it. |
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FWIW. I just came back from a tour of the Savage and they told me the barrels on the Axis is the same as what they put on the 110 with the exception of the obvious Proof barrels etc.
Not sure if that good for Axis owners or bad for 110 owners. |
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Originally Posted By JDatTOA: FWIW. I just came back from a tour of the Savage and they told me the barrels on the Axis is the same as what they put on the 110 with the exception of the obvious Proof barrels etc. Not sure if that good for Axis owners or bad for 110 owners. View Quote Given the accuracy I'm getting, It's probably good for everybody. |
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Trusting your life to the benevolence of an armed criminal is not a strategy, it is stupid!
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i dumped the Axis years ago because of the magazines, maybe they are worth a second look now that it's a new type.
I'm all about the .243. I't the rifle caliber I load the most. Your 58 Gr bullet is my favorite. |
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Originally Posted By John-in-austin: i dumped the Axis years ago because of the magazines, maybe they are worth a second look now that it's a new type. I'm all about the .243. I't the rifle caliber I load the most. Your 58 Gr bullet is my favorite. View Quote Yes, the new style mag and Ergo stock make a huge difference. You do still need to insert the mag back to front for proper engagement. It is night and day to the Axis .223 I had about 10yrs ago. That one got sold off quickly and was the only Savage I've ever owned I'd describe as inaccurate. I suspect the older style more flimsy stock was not allowing the barrel to free float. This again is corrected. With the .243 I'm making 300yd + shots off the Bipod on woodchucks. |
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Trusting your life to the benevolence of an armed criminal is not a strategy, it is stupid!
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Biggest upgrade we did on our Axis(s) was to replace the factory two piece bases with a monorail to allow for better placement of rings for various scopes.
While the Factory Bushnell 3x9 scope was perfectly adequate for easy deer hunting, it had an extra LONG body and many other scopes would NOT fit between the two stretched out rings due to the long action receiver. Thus - replace with a Rail across the top and put the scope & rings you choose where you choose to. Since the top is enclosed anyway, no reason not to run a rail across it. It's not like you are choking off the loading - ejection port on a typical open at the top action like a Remington 700 or Ruger 77 BIGGER_HAMMER |
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LIFE'S JOURNEY IS NOT TO ARRIVE AT THE GRAVE SAFELY IN A WELL PRESERVED BODY,
BUT RATHER TO SKID IN SIDEWAYS, TOTALLY WORN OUT SHOUTING "HOLY $H!T...WHAT A RIDE"!! |
Originally Posted By Bigger_Hammer: Biggest upgrade we did on our Axis(s) was to replace the factory two piece bases with a monorail to allow for better placement of rings for various scopes. While the Factory Bushnell 3x9 scope was perfectly adequate for easy deer hunting, it had an extra LONG body and many other scopes would NOT fit between the two stretched out rings due to the long action receiver. Thus - replace with a Rail across the top and put the scope & rings you choose where you choose to. Since the top is enclosed anyway, no reason not to run a rail across it. It's not like you are choking off the loading - ejection port on a typical open at the top action like a Remington 700 or Ruger 77 BIGGER_HAMMER View Quote Yes, see photo above. The vortex would not fit with factory bases. I bought the rail on Amazon for like $12 and it's been very adequate. I put the factory weaver on my .270 1903 sporter and it has been adequate in that role. |
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Trusting your life to the benevolence of an armed criminal is not a strategy, it is stupid!
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A two year update.
My rifle was put up for the past winter with just a light coat of clenzoil on the exterior and a clean bore. On my first outing late March. I had a malfunction. Light primer strike. I had several more. After numerous discussions, I was resigned to send it back to savage and let them fix it. I then got the idea to put a few drops of clenzoil into the bolt and striker springs. Success and no further light strikes. 18 woodchucks this season to date, and still going strong. |
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Trusting your life to the benevolence of an armed criminal is not a strategy, it is stupid!
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Good thread @shotar.
During some gun room rearranging this past week I discovered that I have over a hundred rounds of .243 ammo and no rifle to shoot it in. I'd pretty much decided that I was going to buy a LH Axis II .243 to burn it in and possibly as a coyote rifle to keep in the truck. Nothing out there beats the price on these Savage rifles right now. |
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We're fucked.
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So yesterday, I bought another Axis in .223. This one is the older style with old style stock and mag.
I paid $200 and the seller seemed glad to get it. Everything looked good, but compared to my .243, the trigger was terrible. Smooth, but like 7lbs. I of course youtubed it and found a fix. I clipped 1.75 coils from the trigger spring and now have a crisp 3.5lb trigger. Shot a 1/2" group at 100yds with ammo loaded for my varmint AR. I will likely put this one in a boyds stock. I put a Burris 4.5-14 that I had on it, which seems about perfect. The woodchucks are just starting to wake up. |
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Trusting your life to the benevolence of an armed criminal is not a strategy, it is stupid!
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Pathetic earthlings... who can save you now?
TX, USA
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Originally Posted By shotar: A two year update. My rifle was put up for the past winter with just a light coat of clenzoil on the exterior and a clean bore. On my first outing late March. I had a malfunction. Light primer strike. I had several more. After numerous discussions, I was resigned to send it back to savage and let them fix it. I then got the idea to put a few drops of clenzoil into the bolt and striker springs. Success and no further light strikes. 18 woodchucks this season to date, and still going strong. View Quote A friend had repeated light primer strikes only about 1/3 going off with a 30.06 caliber Axis - brand new out of the box. When the gun was on safe, you could squeeze the trigger and see the tang that the safety is mounted upon physically move up and down. That sure isn't supposed to happen. He shipped the gun back to Savage for repair. Savage e-mailed him a pre-paid UPS mailing label, did the repair & sent the repaired rifle right back to him at his home. His rifle now touches off every single time and is very accurate. |
Pathetic earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would've hidden from it in terror.
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Originally Posted By Ming_The_Merciless: A friend had repeated light primer strikes only about 1/3 going off with a 30.06 caliber Axis - brand new out of the box. When the gun was on safe, you could squeeze the trigger and see the tang that the safety is mounted upon physically move up and down. That sure isn't supposed to happen. He shipped the gun back to Savage for repair. Savage e-mailed him a pre-paid UPS mailing label, did the repair & sent the repaired rifle right back to him at his home. His rifle now touches off every single time and is very accurate. View Quote I don't think my issue was that severe. Some oil or something likely had solidified while the rifle sat over the winter. A good breakdown and cleaning fixed it. No problems all summer after that. Lots of woodchucks down. |
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Trusting your life to the benevolence of an armed criminal is not a strategy, it is stupid!
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Trusting your life to the benevolence of an armed criminal is not a strategy, it is stupid!
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A side note, rather than spend another $200 on a Boyd's stock, I bought the Mcarbo stock stiffener kit for $24. I was skeptical, but it worked quite well. My barrel is fully free floated, and now stiff enough to use the bipod without issues. This fits my philosophy of a budget varminter. As this rifle sits, with my handloads, I am getting consistent sub moa groups for a total investment under $400 as pictured.
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Trusting your life to the benevolence of an armed criminal is not a strategy, it is stupid!
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Originally Posted By shotar: A side note, rather than spend another $200 on a Boyd's stock, I bought the Mcarbo stock stiffener kit for $24. I was skeptical, but it worked quite well. My barrel is fully free floated, and now stiff enough to use the bipod without issues. This fits my philosophy of a budget varminter. As this rifle sits, with my handloads, I am getting consistent sub moa groups for a total investment under $400 as pictured. View Quote I thought we told you they were pretty good for the price when you bought the .243. Tough to beat how much bangstick you get for the buck with them, even if they don’t have any bells or whistles. Glad they’re working out for you. |
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Originally Posted By FritzTKatt: I thought we told you they were pretty good for the price when you bought the .243. Tough to beat how much bangstick you get for the buck with them, even if they don’t have any bells or whistles. Glad they’re working out for you. View Quote I didn't actually buy the .243, vfd raffle. |
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Trusting your life to the benevolence of an armed criminal is not a strategy, it is stupid!
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Well, I now have a third in .350 legend. I paid full retail for it. Nice and handy deer killer. I'm getting right at 1moa with Winchester 180gr. I will likely not reload for this rifle as that is more than good enough for a 200yd max deer. More likely between 50 and 150yds where I hunt.
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Trusting your life to the benevolence of an armed criminal is not a strategy, it is stupid!
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