Well, I will go against the grain here and say buy the package. What is to lose. Usually the package deals are less expensive than buying the same exact rifle without the scope. I bought a savage .308 package deal and the scope has been great. Taken deer with it already. Only needed a minor adjustment to get it sighted in where I wanted it.

The sling was crap though and I bought a comfortable sling from wally-world for 10 bucks.

I will eventually change out the simmons scope and mounts on it but that will be this summer. I have a burris sitting around doing nothing. Then again I might just leave the simmons on it until it starts giving me grief then change it.