1st shots with an Axis !
Posted: 24 Jun 2017 12:36
I picked up a left hand Savage Axis in 223 for my girls.
I don't have many new in box anything . I shot 30 rounds of cast ........ Yeah well that's on me so I've got a box or 2 of Factory ammo to start over .
The intended idea was a light PB 22 mag type load . Well the NOE 225-37 doesn't look like the answer there ......I guess I'll have to run the checked 225-55 .
At 1800 fps it's still a pretty quiet load , it just doesn't carry enough lube to make it to the muzzle . I will have to spring for some of that blue stuff that comes from the 2500 guy .
Back to the rifle . I ran a couple of brushes and patches with some Hoppes down the bore after the receiver got a quick bath in WD-40 and a fat mop in the chamber . Although it's marked 223 Rem , but it's fired brass lends itself to being 556 comparable .
The mounts seem to be drilled parallel to the bore . I find the stock ugly and plastic but it is comfortable . The trigger isn't match grade but it is pretty good , probably about 5-5.5# and no real movement .
The short 39 gr bullet I believe is the bug with the feeding studder . The removable box mag is a center feed . The bolt is smooth and quiet . Aesthetically I don't care for the bolt shroud and more so the cocking indicator sticking out the back .
As another negative , neither the long action nor short action 1 piece mount seem to fit so buy the 2 piece mounts for faster mounting of optics . These come slick bbl'd with sling studs .
All and all the price and accuracy offered out weigh the aesthetic whining I might do . At least as far as a fall in mud youth rifle goes it's a bargain . I've seen package guns at Walmart from $289 to the big sports stores at $349 . I gave right at $333 Tax , tile , doc .
The mounts run about $8 and the scope is a Tasco pronghorn that lived on my 06' for about 20 yr . It fogged at deer camp about 3 yr ago and I replaced it . I don't foresee the oldest girl running out hunting with me in teens weather in Arkansas so that scope should hold her over for a couple of years .
Of course the real value of rifle is that for the cost of a new bolt head and an appropriate magazine it can go from the lowly 223 to a 308 , 7x57 or 06' having those bbls on hand unless I steal the 7x57 for myself .
I don't have many new in box anything . I shot 30 rounds of cast ........ Yeah well that's on me so I've got a box or 2 of Factory ammo to start over .
The intended idea was a light PB 22 mag type load . Well the NOE 225-37 doesn't look like the answer there ......I guess I'll have to run the checked 225-55 .
At 1800 fps it's still a pretty quiet load , it just doesn't carry enough lube to make it to the muzzle . I will have to spring for some of that blue stuff that comes from the 2500 guy .
Back to the rifle . I ran a couple of brushes and patches with some Hoppes down the bore after the receiver got a quick bath in WD-40 and a fat mop in the chamber . Although it's marked 223 Rem , but it's fired brass lends itself to being 556 comparable .
The mounts seem to be drilled parallel to the bore . I find the stock ugly and plastic but it is comfortable . The trigger isn't match grade but it is pretty good , probably about 5-5.5# and no real movement .
The short 39 gr bullet I believe is the bug with the feeding studder . The removable box mag is a center feed . The bolt is smooth and quiet . Aesthetically I don't care for the bolt shroud and more so the cocking indicator sticking out the back .
As another negative , neither the long action nor short action 1 piece mount seem to fit so buy the 2 piece mounts for faster mounting of optics . These come slick bbl'd with sling studs .
All and all the price and accuracy offered out weigh the aesthetic whining I might do . At least as far as a fall in mud youth rifle goes it's a bargain . I've seen package guns at Walmart from $289 to the big sports stores at $349 . I gave right at $333 Tax , tile , doc .
The mounts run about $8 and the scope is a Tasco pronghorn that lived on my 06' for about 20 yr . It fogged at deer camp about 3 yr ago and I replaced it . I don't foresee the oldest girl running out hunting with me in teens weather in Arkansas so that scope should hold her over for a couple of years .
Of course the real value of rifle is that for the cost of a new bolt head and an appropriate magazine it can go from the lowly 223 to a 308 , 7x57 or 06' having those bbls on hand unless I steal the 7x57 for myself .