I am very biased to not messing old guns up, and while that may not be a collector, its certainly a very fine old gun. (I really don't know if there are collector Savage rifles of that era)

Note that it has the 110 on the Receiver, now its on the barrel and its the Generic model, not the specific one.

As my brother said in some consternation, how do you really know what Model you have? On this one you sure can.

That is a beautiful wood stock. Goes with the gun and the era. My take is it should be kept as is. If its not a Fajen stock its modeled after one. Really nice cheek riser and note the Thumb slot. Classic front of the stock with that reverse angle.

Modern optic is fine, keep the old scope though. You don't see Iron sites very often. Take the barrel off and you will probably not get it indexed back on with the sight alignment right.