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Post by budd on Oct 9, 2020 15:48:44 GMT -5
A friend moved here from Washington, I let him use a storage unit for the summer free of charge. A month ago he decided to move to Mississippi and asked me to come down to his storage unit and take whatever I wanted for free. I noticed a rifle barrel sticking out of a box and it was a Savage Axis in 25-06, stock was broke in half. He said a week after buying it he was crossing a creek on a log and fell breaking the stock. It has a Vortex 3-9x40 crossfire11 scope. I ordered a Boyds Spike Camp Thumbhole stock with aluminum pillars $183.79 with shipping. Today I ran 5 different loads through it and was surprised at how well it grouped with ALL the loads. I settled with Federal 120gr bonded soft points. Im sure the groups could have been tighter, I was shooting off the hood of the truck with a rolled up jacket at 100 yards. Good enough for this country as most all shots here are less than 50 yards. Sometimes I get the 250 yard shot across my foodplot. I traded it to my son for his Model 7 in 260 for my wife, will be installing another Boyd stock with shorter trigger pull for my wife.
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Post by esshup on Oct 10, 2020 20:45:44 GMT -5
Good deal and good shooting!!! I need to play with my cousins Rem Sendero 25-06 soon so I can give it back to him the middle of next month.
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Oct 11, 2020 10:13:18 GMT -5
The Axis rifles are pretty ugly, but that stock makes it look real nice! Should serve your son well.
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Post by jajwrigh on Oct 18, 2020 21:54:33 GMT -5
Nice!
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Post by steiny on Oct 19, 2020 9:08:31 GMT -5
Looks like you made out good.
Boyds makes some pretty nice stuff. The stock is the weak link on many of these modern cheap bolt action rifles and a new stock improves them a bunch.
I hunt IL a lot and they are still a shotgun only state. Have been using a Savage 220 which shoots real good and never really liked the butt ugly black plastic stock. Just saw the other day Boyds makes replacement stocks for that gun. Think I will be putting a walnut stock on it soon.
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