Bought a .223 Axis when it called the Edge. Shot decent for accuracy out of the box, despite its heavy trigger pull and the plastic stock that had a flex in it that caused the cross hair in my scope to climb up to 1/2" on a 100 yd target before the trigger released when shooting from benchrest. Had a couple of other guys at range take the rifle to their benchrests and they verified the upward cross hair movement when pulling the trigger. I solved this problem by making a wood stock for the rifle and also tinkered with the trigger to improve its pull. By the way, never was happy that in order to eject the brass in my Axis, it took a firm-fast pull on the bolt handle.....otherwise, brass would fall off bolt face in the receiver.
I purchased a .223 Heavy barrel Marlin XS that was more accurate with a better factory trigger. So, my Axis is now a 6x45.