You all have seen my posts over the years about my classic "old school" Savage .308 rifle and the equally old, basic, common, Bushnell 3-9x40 scope (ain't nothing fancy...)

I took a drive up to the big family owned gun shop here in town called Green Top. They've been around for decades here, north of Richmond along Route 1 almost to Ashland, VA along I-95. They started out as a simple mom 'n pop store with a green roof (i.e. Green Top), but grew and grew, and exceeded fire capacity many times in their old building. It was asses & elbows almost every single day. Forget Saturdays, as you wouldn't be able to find a parking spot! They took over the old, abandoned Gander Mountain building, and grew and grew to rival Cabela's & Bass Pro.

Getting to the point: I stopped in there looking at new Vortex scopes, Leupold scopes, etc... to upgrade the old 20+ year old Bushnell. I showed this young kid a photo on my phone as seen below of my 1997 (as per serial# lookup from Savage) Model 110, and the old Bushnell scope. He looked at it, like (W)hiskey (T)ango (F)oxtrot? (Most likely my rifle was probably as old as he was! LOL..) I had to "educate him" on the sad history of Savage back in the 90's where they were faced with Chapter 11...

They took all their rifle stocks, and to save money, they made EVERYTHING long action. 30-06, .270, .308, .243, .25-06, 7mm-08, etc...
For the "short action" rounds, they installed a metal block, in behind the internal magazine, to fill the space. It works well for what it is!
Mine is kind of a hybrid, long action/short action style rifle. I keep my .308 sighted at 1" high at 100 yards. That's good enough for me.

Anyone remember these? If I was to swap out the scope... Vortex Diamondback or Leupold VX Freedom? Hmmm.....