Took my axis 223 to the range to sight in a scope I had just put on it. Several people there asked about it and I let them shoot it. Everyone was very happy with it's performace and looks and the groups it shot. My gun is a youth axis with the trigger spring upgrade and the trigger housing epoxied on and a small amount of weight added to the butt stock. I'm using a centerpoint 4-16x40 scope and pmc 55gr along with some herters 55gr ammo. The gun was shooting very well and one of the shooters went right from the range to walmart and bought one himself. He brought it to the range this morning and was showing it off. He's got a simmons 22mag scope on it and he let me shoot it, it's a shooter right out of the box. He was using hand loaded ammo though and his groups were slightly smaller than mine.