It is primarily the stock. Axis are great guns, except for the stock.
It flexes in the wrist area. It flexes in the forend. You can see how it moves just pulling the trigger, imagine the forces on it when it shoots.
Shooting it off a bipod makes the flimsy stock twist differently every time and jump. A bipod is so stiff that the forend moves severely under recoil. If the bipod is on a hard surface, try putting it on a pad, carpet, or cushion to shoot. That can affect point of impact.
When you touch off the shot, the stock needs to hold and cradle the action perfectly still until the bullet leaves the barrel. Most find that accuracy improves if you shoot it off bags, but move the bags just in front of the trigger.
The general answer is to put it in a Boyd's laminate stock and you could have sub-moa accuracy. It will likely settle into about MOA with a better stock, maybe even better.
Seriously, do a search for "axis" and "Boyd's" and you will see...
Also, there is a tutorial on stiffening the Axis stock, but from experience, it really isn't worth it...
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