Now there have been 44 responses and I have yet to see anyone mention the one widely known issue of Failure to Fire with many Axis rifles, mine included. The issue seems to revolve around the guns firing pin spring and has been well reported on the Savage forum. Mine I tried reloading using CCI #41 primers and ended up with a 50% FTF rate. With all other primers I get about 3% failure with what looks like very light primer strikes. I still refuse to eliminate this gun.
These issues usually seem to pop up ("edit" randomly) with axis rifles, I've read about them more than once. Ive also never read about a generally agreed upon "cure".......or seen the problem in any that I've worked on for that matter.Not doubting what you say, but I own 2 and have sighted in 6 more this season that I don't own, haven't seen the FTF problem yet, maybe they fixed the issue. Mine and all the others I shot are less than 2yrs old.
One of the things I dislike about the axis isn't he goofy striker spring, but generally it works fine.
I also kinda wonder if the number of crap primers is higher now than it has been in the past. I've had maybe a dozen failures over the last two years and never seen a single one till then.
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