The way I see it, I bought the Axis for a "Beater" and my grandkids who are known to leave their equipment at home when headed to my ranch during hunting season
The load I developed is a couple grains under maximum, easy on the recoil, and plenty accurate enough for shots under 200 yards.
I have no obsession with hitting a paper target at 1000 yards or shooting 10 shot, one ragged hole groups.
To each his own!