Magazine help

[pdog06]

Your rifle was built in 1997.

You haven’t said what caliber it is? Or verified the action screw spacing. It should be 5.0” for a long action.

However,
From one of our articles on this subject,

“From 1988 to 1997 all Savage bolt-action rifles were made on long-actions. Those chambered for short-action cartridges have a shorter magazine port cut to work with the existing short-action magazine boxes from previous years. As such, even though the action is technically a long action you can not mount a long-action cartridge magazine to it without having the magazine port lengthened.”

So basically before buying a follower and spring you will need to verify the action screw length, and if it has the full mag box cutout or the shortened mag box cutout.

With A picture of said action we could tell you in a second.

[big honkin jeep]

Is there a magazine box attached to your action?
Should be attached with tabs front and rear that fit into notches/recesses in the bottom of the action.
If you dont have the box youre going to need one in addition to the spring and follower.