Thank you Dave for the pictures, now I clearly see the difference when they’re posted side by side; completely different and hard to mix up lol. The one I ordered online didn’t show up, and my local gun shop has been waiting on a big Weaver order since Christmas. “It’ll be in next week” . Canadian Tire has the old model one piece rail, but not the new one. I haven’t had a chance to call my other localish gun shop 1.5 hours away to see if they have.

I actually emailed Savage to get the exact date of this model rifle, but they didn’t reply. That was December 27, they were short staffed and very busy in an earlier conversation I had.

Thanks for the reply LHitchcox, I find it odd that these rifles are very common and yet the 8-40 new model bases are hard to find.

My apologies for the late reply guys, I didn’t get any notifications on this thread