thank you all for your answers. money is not really the issue. I work at a gunshop and I can get the sako for about $760 when the regular seling price would be about $1100 plus tax. The savage would still be cheaper about $500-600 or so but how else could you not justify getting a $1100 rifle for just a few hundred more than the savage?

I will put a Burris Sig. 4-16 electro-dot or a burris FF2 4.5-14 lrs bal-plex.