One of the interesting things about long guns and competitive PR action shooting sports are the variety of guns, stocks, scopes, reticles, and in short, solutions out there. An AXMC is a big gun to get around. Kind of like just how big an AR10 feels to an AR15. When you're moving your rifle from position to position, under time you may significantly feel the cumbersome bulk of it. Additionally the weight in the rife isn't puut in places to enhance balance, it's engineered into different places for a different reasons. So a 20lb comp rifle will feel much more balanced and likely even lighter than a 20lb AXMC. I have an AT in an MPA chassis. Weight and balance wise it feels very similar to my TL3 in the MPA. Both have the same chassis, bipod and scopes. But when shooting the TL3 with tuned mags and the crisp single stage trigger and light bolt lift and close, it just feels so much more refined. The bolt on the AT action is very smooth front to back but the hard lift and heavy "clunk" on close is just a different feel. I like to experiment with different cartridges and things. So just getting a feel for a different rifle might be interesting for you. Imagine this, two different multi-cal rifles, done in two different ways. Custom action with swappable bolt heads or bolts allowing you to capitalize on the smaller cartridges like 6BR, 223, 6GT, etc and a larger AXMC shooting 338, 300PRC, and some crossover to the smaller 308/ Creedmoor based cartridges.
