Savage Axis recoil lug.

[Polinese]

Ordered an Oryx chassis today. Plannning on doing a total rebuild on my Savage Axis. Does anyone know where I can get a recoil lug for the axis? I've got it in a boyds stock right now but the rifle is about 4 hours from where I am right now so I can't easily check to see if that one will come out of the stock easily. I did check with boyds and they can't sell me just the lug.

Any help?

 

[stagpanther]

I'd call Savage, it's surprising that they are hard to find. Lacking that, I'd call PTG and ask them to make you one (several, to be on the safe side). I thought of numrich but they appear to be out of stock at the moment.

 

[Polinese]

Thanks for the suggestion! Turns out I gotta call em anyways to verify my shank size since mine is the earlier "edge" version before the name change. Some stuff I just read implied the shank size may have changed on them at some point.

 

[stagpanther]

If you measure your lug gap between the receiver and nut I can tell you if that matches my axis rifle's. I don't know if the shape changed but I kinda doubt it.

 

[Polinese]

I dont believe the shape changed. My understanding is the name changed due to a copyright or trademark issue. Next time I'm visitng my folks I"ll dig the rifle out and look at it, and see if I can just pull the lug from the boyds stock. The chassis is backordered anyways.

 

[reynolds357]

I have a few Boyds stocks. They are OK quality wise and not too great customer service wise. I have one of their stocks where they used plastic where steel should have been used. The plastic warps and will not function. I e-mail them and tell them the part warped and should have been made of steel. They e-mail me back and tell me they now make them out of steel. They will be happy to sell me one for $33 or 35 or maybe $38. They will only charge me $14 to ship it. We are talking about a couple ounces here. They might have got that $50, but they wont get another cent of mine.