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This is a new magazine style for the Axis/Trophy lines – basically anything that uses the plastic magazine base. Aside from the “Savage” logo molded in, the latch is a big upgrade. The newer style has a “divorced” latch that is pinned into the magazine bottom with a small coil spring in between. This newer style latches in with a much more positive hold. Either magazine style will work in any of the guns designed for the magazines with the plastic bottoms. These are being rolled out going forward, to my knowledge so folks may see both styles mixed out in the field for a short amount of time as the older style gets phased out.
They are backwards compatible on the vast majority of models. I can’t say all because we had some troubles with the older long action calibers wood stocks on Axis models.