Thanks for the compliments gents, its definitely a nice rig. To top it all off Santa Clause brought me a Rifle Basix trigger!! I am going to polish and soften some of the surfaces and remove to fine machine marks in it but other than that I dont think it will need much. Cant wait to run it with the new trigger.

Thanks Santa J

Maddog I honestly dont know much about the Savages to be honest with you. I know Bert thinks they are great guns and that was kind of the deciding factors in buying this one, that and the fact that I shot Irvings and for the money how could ya go wrong.

Also another update, I was able to sell the stock on eBay for almost $90 so that can come back off the total now too. For whatever reason that stock is really desirable, obviously if someone is willing to pay $90 for a bone stock plastic POS stock. I updated my OP to reflect the sale of the stock, stock.