Neighbor bought an Axis in 350 Legend. It would misfire 50% of the time. He took that thing apart and worked on it till he was blue in the face. Had a weird firing pin spring problem near as he could tell. Washers between two springs rather than a single spring. He tried different washers, polishing, etc. Of course, every modification required another trip to the range to try it, only to be hopeful that this was the solution and this time it would work, then to be let down again, and again, and again. Savage wasn't very helpful and he finally sold it to a friend that knew about his trouble.
As a shooter of an old 110 I swore I wouldn't touch a new Savage, mostly because they weren't helpful in solving the problem.
By comparison, I recently bought a new Weatherby in 338 RPM that refused to feed. I sent Weatherby a short video of what it was doing and they fixed it at their expense shipping both ways. I guess when you sell $300 guns you can't really afford to do that.
Not sure what the solution is. IMO, Savage got a reputation as of late for building cheap rifles. Thy may build some great rifles but public perception may keep them down some. So the Weatherby factory solved my feeding issue, now if it would shoot like a Savage we'd all be happy.
_______________________________________________________ An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack
By comparison, I recently bought a new Weatherby in 338 RPM that refused to feed. I sent Weatherby a short video of what it was doing and they fixed it at their expense shipping both ways.
I've had the same experience with Remington in Illion multiple times.
Both are as good as shooters as my Tikkas. Very happy with both rifles.
"...aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one." - Paul to the church in Thessalonica.
I do not. I bought 2 of the AxisII LH rifles (223 and 25-06) on sale from Buds a few years back and had problems with them straight out of the box. They both made trips back to Savage...the 25-06 went back twice. Feed, extraction, and ftf problems... the 25 had super excessive headspace.
That pretty much soured me on new production Savage; traded them both off once I got them back in working order.
IMO Savage's glory began and ended with the 99. Everything else they touched confirmed their dedication to being "King of the Hardware Store Guns", accuracy in some ( a lot) of them notwithstanding.
"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz "Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty
2 years ago when Walmart had the Axis rifles discounted down to 99 bucks ( and Savage was giving $50 rebates on top of that) i bought every one i could in my area. To flip of course!! I think i bought 9 total. The 3 i kept were all excellent shooters. The only one i still have is a 223 that i shot a 5 shot group covered by a penny at 100 yrds. Thats plenty good for me 😁
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