Trailer - you want to improve the accuracy of your savage. I just got a sear assembly from Rifle Basix (Model SAV-R). It has a trigger pull of 9 oz o 1 1/2 lb. Its a hell of a far cry for the monsterous trigger pull on the factory trigger. It comes with complete instructions and you can put it in yourself in about 20 mins.
As for the scope, I mounted a Tasco 3-9 on mine. Works pretty good. Good enough to head shoot a turkey this past fall at about 50 yds.

there are alot of different opions on optic's everywhere on the internet, lots of people are brand loyal and will talk down about other brands tassco's for one make fine optics i have a couple and they work great and hold zero fine, i also have a simmons that dose the same. the leupold i also have is great. I have herd of people getting good bsa's that will work fine but alot of others say there junk. go for whatever best suits your price range and what your going to be using the gun for. on my marlin 917vs i mounted a simmons prohunter 4-12x40AO and its perfect for gopher shooting.

Remember, recoil is nonexistanton this little round, but it does have to hold zero from one day to the next. On my 22lr's i run 3-9 x 40's in "solid" rings. your not going for something outragous. I run leupolds on my prairie rat rifles, ziess on my seven mag, and simmons on my 22's. I have a friend who had a BSA on a 22-250. this was 4 years ago, and when we compared it to the leupold that another had on a rifle, we swore never to save money on glass again. there was no comparision for optical clarity. However, both rifles were 22-250's and the scopes both handeled that minute recoil fine. several hundred shots a day didn't phase the bsa in that case. On that note, the first scope I had on my seven mag was a simmons Pro 50, never again. I love my simmons on little guns at close range, not on anything big.

It also depends on the range which you plan to shoot it. Out to 150, 200 yards, optical clarity isn't as much of an issue. Light gathering might be considered, but again maybe can be down played. what are you shooting? pop cans, paper, gophers, prairie rats, or rabbits?

Also, price has alot of weight in this equation. Can you afford a 500 dollar scope, and is it right to put a $500 scope on a $250 gun?

finally there is the "looks" of the whole package.