Savage Axis vs Ruger American & the reason why I went with the Savage Axis over the Ruger American.

l rock 30 odd 6 here uh today i'm doing a video on a clip of a previous video i've done in a comparison of uh two rifles a savage axis and the ruger american and why i decided to go with the savage access it's a quick five minute video uh you can look at and have comparisons of the two rifles and make an informed decision so here we go with my video when i went shopping and looking at the two rifles okay the one thing that made me go with this rifle over the ruger american okay was that the um bolt in this one is machined a lot better so when the bolt was machined a lot better the action was a lot smoother like when i cycle this bulb it's a lot smoother it just flows okay so if you're shooting off a lot of cartridges in the row trying to put an animal down you want that to be just you know second nature and and just flow right so when i look at the ruger american it wasn't this smooth it didn't flow like this you had to fight with it a little bit and it made this um noise when you cycled the bullets it almost sounded like if you were sharpening a knife and now it's because that bolt there is not machined as nicely as this one it's a bit more rougher so there's more friction when you're cycling that bolt but the bolt itself it was if it was machined better it would be a really nice bolt i mean does have a nice features but that's where ruger american was came short with that rifle was not machining the bolt enough the other thing that got me to go with this savage access over the um ruger american was the safety um this safety here even though that's kind of loud the ruger american safety was actually louder okay so you know if you're out in the field and you're hunting you want to be as quiet as possible um so that was the other thing that got me to go with the savage axis now the barrels are two different types of barrels that they have okay two different style barrels but they're both the same in accuracy so i mean that i gave as a tie um this barrel here seemed a little bit more robust than the other one but not much okay um the butt stocks on both rifles uh this one here wasn't as soft as the other one so that one there i think ruger american the butt uh the butt plate um was a little bit more uh softer um what i like about uh savage access a lot of the components in this one here this uh clip this magazine sorry is um metal and then it's uh polymer on the bottom where in the ruger american it's all plastic but um in the ruger american the magazine actually goes in feeds in a lot better than it does on this one um not a lot better but a little bit better but this one actually comes out a lot easier so i mean you know it's a 50 50 thing but this seems more robust and solid the other thing i have to say uh with the uh stock on the outside the stock quality um i would say is about the same but if you do your research you find out about the betting of the two stocks the betting in the ruger americans better than it is in the savage access um so that's something to think about so i mean that does help with accuracy having betting better betting in the stock but the thing is you can buy a more better stock and replace this one and do glass bedding with these rifles and do trigger work and get a nice scope and instead of it being a 300 yard rifle it could be a thousand yard rifle because uh if you get a better stock i mean with the hardware that's with this rifle um it's endless what you can do with these guys i mean for a thousand yard shot that's amazing with a 500 budget rifle so the other thing i have to give to ruger american was the trigger trigger was a bit better on that one than this one but now the the new savage accesses the access to they have what's called the accu trigger which is uh pretty comparable or if not better so in that video neglected to say was um the original access that has uh the lesser trigger uh there is a kit you can buy online it is uh 20 and what it does is uh changes the spring and uh more or less stabilizes the trigger where it's a nice trigger pull and then two triggers would be comparable uh the trigger pull would be uh three and a half pounds if i remember correctly uh furthermore um i didn't think i gave enough information on the two different types of barrels all right so the savage axis has a 22 inch barrel it's made of carbon steel and it's button rifled the uh ruger is a hammered forged barrel and has a nice blue oxide finish which is really nice i mean that's that's big pluses for the ruger american so i mean these two firearms are very very comparable i probably would have went with the ruger american if the bolt was machined better but to me that was a big big thing that really turned me off with ruger american if they machined that bolt back better i'll be probably owning a ruger america instead of savage access but i'm the type of person when i shop for firearms i always look at the hardware first like the heart of the firearm which is like you know the bolt the um all the hardware the the barrel and stuff like that because stocks can always be changed you can always upgrade your stocks and make them better improve proof of the stocks with betting and everything that can always be changed but can never change like you know the hardware of the firearm so um that's how i shop maybe you're different you put more emphasis on the stock and everything but to me uh the hardware hardware is like the pistons of the engine it has to be high quality so that's what made me go with the savage access everybody has their own preferences so my opinion to everybody is to go out look at the two rifles uh see what you know attracts you to that rifle and make an informed decision but that's some information to take with you and look at both of these rifles that are really nice okay elrock 30 odd 6 over and out

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Published: Fri Jan 28 2022