NO, I mean the EXTRACTOR. Ejection cannot occur, if the EXTRACTOR does not hold on to the case properly, keeping it in position against the bolt face, until the bolt is withdrawn to the point that the ejector can flip it out of the ejection port. On push feed actions, such as the Savage Axis in question, the ejector is only a spring-loaded pin which projects through one side of the bolt face. A very simple....almost foolproof device. As such, as long as the ejector spring is not broken, which almost never happens, the ejector will do it's job - AS LONG AS THE EXTRACTOR FIRST DOES IT'S JOB.
With these actions, it is almost always the EXTRACTOR that malfunctions, if a malfunction does occur. If, as I said before, the fired case is popping loose from the extractor, before being ejected, it will stay in the action as the bolt is withdrawn. That is an EXTRACTOR problem - NOT necessarily an ejector problem.