Gerald Dilgard
Hammer Time Executive member
On Black Friday we stood in line for about 2 hours at BPS to get their "Deal" on a Savage Axis. The add said it was the XP model so that would have the accu-trigger. Wrong, it was the plain Axis. I got it home and starting going over it. The factory trigger was so bad that when I dry fired it, I stopped and checked to see if the safety was off. It measured out to 8.3lbs. We may have a record here. I quickly got on line and ordered a new trigger spring kit from MCARBO for 19.95, but wait, it was Black Friday and they were $16 so I ordered two. I got them in the mail the following Wednesday and replaced it with the 2.5 lbs spring. It comes with three choices but since it will be a hunting rifle I felt that 1.5lbs may be a little light with heavy gloves on. I also did a little grinding on the barrel channel. While I could slide a dollar bill all the way down I just touched it up till I could slide an index card all the way down. The so called scope that comes with it is a cheap Chinese Weaver. I take them off and throw them away. I had a 4x12 Leupold to replace it with. I laughed in the store when the clerk told me they were bore sited at the factory. I could turn the scope in the rings with just a couple of fingers. I replaced all of the mounts with a top rail and still used the rings from the old scope. Cleaned the factory gunk out of the barrel and took it to the range. Sat down at the 25 yard range and got it on target with just a few shots. Moved over to 50 yards to fine tune it some. Took it home and cleaned the daylights out of it. Back to the range a week later to put some more rounds down the barrel. Just using a light load of 48 of IMR 4064 and a Hornady 150 SP at 2700 and it shot that very well. As it was below freezing it may not have been my best shooting but back to back groups under an inch isn't bad. A good cleaning and maybe a few 124 HH over some Varget and we'll see how she likes that. If anyone has an accurate load for that combo please share. So far I am very happy with how this $300 dollar rifle shoots. That trigger spring makes all the difference in the world on the accuracy that you can get from it.