Savage Axis 2 XP 30-06 Sprg 4rd Hardwood Rifle

This Axis 2 XP is chambered in 30-06 Springfield and holds 4 rounds. The stock is hardwood, the older way of building a hunting rifle and still the way a lot of people prefer one to feel in the hand. Wood carries a bit more weight than a hollow synthetic shell, and most shooters find that helps rather than hurts once the rifle is on a rest.

30-06 Springfield entered service in 1906 and factory ammunition for it still covers a wide range of bullet weights, which is why it stays on the shelf at counters that carry only a handful of rifle cartridges. Nothing about this rifle is complicated. There is no chassis, no folding stock and no rail farm, just a hardwood stocked rifle with a 4 round capacity in a cartridge that has been in continuous production for well over a century. The hardwood is the difference between this configuration and the synthetic stocked versions of the same model, and it is the reason most people who buy one pick it. Axis 2 is the later version of the Axis line and XP marks this configuration.