Going along with the Savage package deals i bought a Stevens model 200 this past year which is made by savage and is essentially the same just a different stock composition. It is chambered in .270 and i have been very happy with it. As far as optics are concerned I have no idea as to what the scope is. It is not labeled but if i remember correctly it was sport optics or something to that effect. Expecting to put a new scope on after a while i went ahead and paid the 15 dollar difference in the price from a bare rifle to a scoped rifle that was on sale. To my suprise out of the box with notweaking it was shooting around 4 inch groups at 100 yards. So needless to say ive kept it on there and took a nice buck with it. Overall im very happy with it I realize this may not have been what you were looking for but i thought since its the lower end of the economy scale of their firearms a little insight might help.