A friend of mine is looking for his first deer rifle- I'm taking him deer hunting this fall.

He saw an ad for a remington 770 (Remington 710 with a new name as far as I can tell) and was impressed with the price, but I steered him towards a Savage. He owns nothing but Brownings, but he doesn't want to pay $1000+ for a left handed model. He's currently interrested in either a Savage 110 or Savage 116 in 30-06. He wanted me to try to find out what kind of scopes came with the Savage 'package guns' and whether or not the scopes were decent or if he should jsut buy the rifle and spend a few hundred on a Leupold or Burris scope instead.

Anyone buy a Savage rifle package? Can you comment on the scopes that come with them?