Personally, I would get it without the scope. I went shooting with a fellow modernmuzzleloaders member Saturday and he was trying to dial-in his Savage. It was brand new and came with a Simmons scope that was supposedly boresighted. He fired 10 shots and made over 45 clicks in elevation adjustments and still couldn't get it to hit paper. The scope was tite and centered. The only thing we could come up with was that the scope had to be busted. The scope that comes mounted from Cabelas may be different but I wouldn't want to chance it. A ML as nice as the Savage would get a quality scope mounted on it.