I bought the axis too a few years back... The Stock on the axis is super flimsy and if you pinch the stock and the barrel together, they will probably touch. My first suggestion is to put a CBI barrel on it and a Boyd's stock at the very least. If you don't want to go that far with it, then you can try sliding the rifle into your shooting bag pretty much all the way to the trigger guard. That will keep the pressure off the for end and may help prevent the stock touching the barrel under recoil forces. The other thing is that the Axis has a lot of flex in the grip area and I could feel the gun flex under my palm when I squeezed the trigger.
I went the CBI, Boyds route on mine (Pillar bedded and glass bedded) and she'll put 5 in a nickel @ 100 Yards now. However, If I had to do it over again, I probably would have chosen a better platform to start with. IE the 110 or 111 series.
You could also try to epoxy the for end to stiffen it up and you could also fill in the butt stock with expanding foam to help stiffen that up... I even put fishing sinkers in the butt stock to add a little weight.
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