I was faced with the same problem. I own 2 Remington shotguns and 3 remington rifles. I had been looking at the savage 300 win mag in stainless or the fairly new remington CDL. I was torn between the two. A friend of mine just bought a used Savage 300 win mag and was having problems getting it to group. Not a typical problem for Savage as they are usually great right out of the box. He also wanted the new accu-trigger installed on the gun, as the old trigger had a lot of creep to it. When he called Savage they more or less told him to go pound tar. They said any models made prior to (I believe it was) 1994 they will not stand behind because they did not make them. Savage apparantly changed hands around that time, but kept the name. Before all this went down another friend of mine ordered a left hand Savage 300 win mag. For him, they won't install the new Accu-Trigger, for some reason. Also, he's gotten the run around from customer service, and they are charging him an arm and a leg for his left handed model over the right handed version.
On the other hand.......REMINGTON. A friend of mine bought a remington model 700 30.06 in 1964 (I could be off a year or two on the date of purchase, but I believe it was 64) in Japan while he was in the service. He recently called remington to have the gun worked on. This gun has been fired countless times. Remington's customer service was very helpful, in fact what he got back was more than what he wanted done. They installed a new trigger assembly with the keyed trigger lock on the trigger, found on newer Remingtons. They cleaned, polished and repaired the gun back to new-like condition, FOR NOTHING! They also changed the safety which makes you able to open the bolt with the gun on safe. Prior to that the early Remingtons had to be on fire to open the bolts. They will make this change free of charge for anyone with an older Remington. Best of all you don't need an FFL to ship back to Remington using UPS.
Now, I know people are saying Remington is cheapening up their line of guns. I personally would not buy the new model 710, but I would buy any other gun they manufatcuter. After seeing three of my friends deal with Savage and Remington, my mind is certainly with Remington. I have a Remington model 700 ADL synthetic in 30.06, the least expensive 30.06 Remington made at the time I purchased it. I mounted a Leupold VXIII on the gun. All I can say is the gun can shoot better than I can hold. At 50 yards it places a 3 shot group pretty much in the same hole and at 100 yards it's about an inch group. Unless you are shooting for competition, the model 700 unworked from the factory is a great hunting rifle.