Very nice Frank! Looking good!
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Very nice Frank! Looking good!
Thanks Elgin.
Already packed up & ready to head out to the swamps for the obligatory trial run. I can already hear my 'ol lady yapping about them being too heavy, cheek rest too high, grip too fat, color is doesn't match her boots, camo scheme is off for this time of year....
Outstanding
drybean
Nice looking at the pictures and info. It will help when I add some furniture to my 308 Axis.
Thanks Jim.
And Mr. B52 - Try a little reinforcement in the barrel channel & some weight in the butt end. You'll like your Axis a whole lot more. Granted, it doesn't equal a good stout stock but a few mods to the stock will change the way it feels quite a bit. I was reluctant to change out these two after all the modifications I did to the original wiggle wobblers. They served & performed well in the few years I used them but now, with a nice piece of lumber under the action it feels like an expensive rifle. I just hope they still shoot as well as they did before replacing the stocks.
Look great! Really like that bolt handle on your 25-06!
This is what the bolt handle on the .308 used to look like. The one that Jim calls my turd flusher. Its a toilet flush handle from an antique toilet I removed during a remodel I did a few years ago. I saved it all these years thinking I'll use it some day...
I didn't like the chrome so I got out the big file, grinder & went to work on it. It's solid brass so it worked out pretty easy. I squared it up, a little flat black paint and what you see is end result.
http://i1075.photobucket.com/albums/...handles004.jpg
The bolt handle on the 25.06 was made by a former member (stangfish) of this site. He did a really nice job on it. Like nothing I could buy anywhere. The extra sharp angle & length make it real easy to chamber a round quickly.
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s...psfc242797.jpg
My .223 and the Boyds Prairie hunter in Pepper. First kill at 200 yds
My .223 just finished with initial build. Rifle is stock, haven't even shot it yet. Just go the base mount in the mail today & mounted the scope, a Nitrex TRE-1 (3x9-42) with a Boyd's Prairie Hunter in Nutmeg. Plan to get it out shooting next weekend.[IMG]http://i1147.photobucket.com/albums/...ps90976289.jpg[/IMG]
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Went out early this morning before the wind got up. Wanted to do some load development for the .223. I am going to swap to a 16x scope as 10 just isn't enough for these old eyeshttp://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s...ps865898ce.jpghttp://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s...pse3191562.jpg
Gun looks great,all my scopes are high power because of my old eyes..I also love seeing the green grass,none up here yet!
Am i first? Here it is wearing a boyds tacticool...http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/d...ps02aae341.jpghttp://i223.photobucket.com/albums/d...ps7039ac2d.jpg
Sorry for the terrible pics...i only had about 10 mins to throw it on there before i had to leave. Ill get some better ones later
That looks great,can you post your scope choice,scope mount,and ring height? A jeweled bolt inlayed in black,and a tactical bolt handle would look very cool! Is it a 308?
New to the club, just joined the Savage family! Axis .308
I can't stop staring at it! hahahahaa where do i find those larger mags??
http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/k...ps7fcd43c3.jpghttp://i276.photobucket.com/albums/k...ps7efb14f5.jpg
Yes,Sharp Shooter Supply still doing them.
Got my last two Axis builds almost finished (just need to decide on scopes for them).
Here are all three of them.
Top to bottom:
308 - 20 inch fluted heavy Savage barrel, Weaver 3-15 FFP scope, Leupold rings, Warne rail, Accu-trigger, extended knob, extended mag, Boyd's Pepper Laminate Prairie Hunter
243 - 20 inch heavy McGowen barrel, Burris rings, Leupold bases, Accu-trigger, extended knob, extended mag, Boyd's Tacticool.
223 - 22 inch heavy Savage barrel, Warne rail, Accu-trigger, extended knob, Boyd's Tacticool (painted grey).
http://i1029.photobucket.com/albums/...ps89eb414f.jpg
Elgin - Lemme know how those tactical looking things feel & act when you take them out.
I think I see one or two in my immediate future.
The price is right...
A couple pics that are a little better of the .308 w/ Boyds tacticool
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/d...psb9b1a3fe.jpg
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/d...psd4376817.jpg
http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/k...ps5d1d829e.jpg
Just picked it up today!
Savage Axis Camo chambered in 30-06 Sprg
Centerpoint 4-16x40 Scope (Probably going to be switched out)
I have been talking to: Jim at Apache Gunworks for a 20" Threaded Medium Bull Barrel; Frank, for (2) 10 round, Long Action Axis Magazines; and Boyds I have been looking at either a Tacticool Stock or Classic in Nutmeg... Maybe you fellas can help me out there on which stock to go with! I hope this goes better than my Stevens build because that sucked and I ended up selling it haha So far both, Jim and Frank, have been excellent to talk to and I can't wait to actually place my orders with both of them and get this ball rolling!
Rick
Rick - Shoot it with the factory "Flex-O-Matic" stock first.
After that even strapping the action to a 2x4 would feel good.
Good luck with the new toy.
30'06 is my most favoritist caliber in the world.
This week, anyway.
Thanks, Frank! I had it on my table to try and get a good cheekweld and set the scope up, even tried prone. It feels like that stock is a mile long! I had my scope back pretty far and still had to stretch my neck out. I am sure with some range time I could work something out with it. Not too entirely worried about it with plans to swap it out
Here's mine 223 booger cut down 17 1/2" and the ugliest green paint u have ever seen.
http://i483.photobucket.com/albums/r...ps6aczkmeg.jpg
Wow , you are correct about the paint
Well it is certainly different! lol
Kudos on the first one I have ever seen like that.
That's some serious greenish yellow color ya got there, kid. Did you happen to pick that up at Juan's Gun Emporium in the south Bronx?...
Dwa, love the paint.
Here my new Boyds tacticool stock.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/09/zumy4e5u.jpg
The knob doesn't work. Its an entire handle for a 110 but no primary extraction so I'm changing it back to the stock handle. Found it on eBay.
No still shoots great
Hypothetically, it should shoot better or the same after cutting the barrel, correct? (so long the crown was done properly)
I am in so much trouble haha
Jalmeter29's photo of his Tacticool makes me want that one soo bad but the Prairie Hunter in Pepper Laminate is also screaming my name!
Awesome looking set up by the way! Too bad the 110 Bolt won't work.. Can you just swap out the Axis bolt with a 110 bolt and be done? (Im assuming not but thought id ask)
You cam bolts on any 110 handle and it cycles but its hard to extract a spent case because there is no primary extraction. I didn't trust it so I'm back to the factory handle.
My brother has the prairie hunter in pepper. Much prettier stock overall than the tacticool. But i love the geometry of the tacticool. He shot 2in group at 400 last week in the 243. And mine got a 3.5 in at 500 with the 223. Love the axis. Why bather with any other gun. Booth are steel pillar bedded, glass bedded and free floated.
[QUOTE=jalmeter29;260146]You cam bolts on any 110 handle and it cycles but its hard to extract a spent case because there is no primary extraction. I didn't trust it so I'm back to the factory handle.
My brother has the prairie hunter in pepper. Much prettier stock overall than the tacticool. But i love the geometry of the tacticool. He shot 2in group at 400 last week in the 243. And mine got a 3.5 in at 500 with the 223. Love the axis. Why bather with any other gun. Booth are steel pillar bedded, glass bedded and free
That is some good shooting. Are both of the axis rifles mentioned above factory rifles? What load land bullet are you shooting out the rifles?
Yeah both axis 223 and 243. Factory barrel. Boyds tacticool on 223, Prairie hunter on 243. Acutrigger on 223. Booth with ss10x42 scopes. Booth pillar and glass bedded. Some minor trigger work done to the factory trigger on 243.
223 likes the 53v-max 3175fps 26.5gn varget. 243 likes 87gr vmax I think he's using h4841
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/05/12/e6urary8.jpg
Here's mine. Chambered in .308