I bought my 116 and VX-2 at Cabelas. They guy who mounted the scope, said Savages are a problem for mounting Leopold scopes. The base cantalevers over where you have to load, blind magazine too. The rear ring is not over the receiver, but where you load.

Is there going to be stiffness problems? At firsts I thought maybe the guy had the wrong bases, but since the rear is so far forward the bases don't matter.


So can you mount a Leopold on a Savage without this morphidite setup? 5 1/4 between bells. So I am not seeing how. Front ring is right against bell, and rear rings is about 1/4 from dial. Was there something different about 116s?

I must not have enough post to put up pictures, since the attachment button is not available to me.