Quote Originally Posted by DrThunder88 View Post
Yes and no.


Mechanically sound - It may be cheap to make, but it's hard to find anything wrong with the Axis design apart from being unrefined. Even the most radical departure from de rigueur bolt action rifle design--the recoil lug--isn't bad by any means, and history hasn't borne out a plague of failures or poor accuracy stemming from it over the last eleven years.
That is one area of the Axis I do question. I don't think it matters much in the lighter recoiling calibers but I wonder if it is as good as the 110 style in the bigger calibers. Maybe it is, I am certainly no expert.