Brand new to forum and thanks in advance for any help here. I am a green newbie as all of the junting I have done previously I have borrowed by brother in law's guns and binos. Now my sons are getting older and I bought "us" a Savage combo 308. I know the scope with it is not much so I also purchased a Nikon 4x12x40. Being a newbie I scoured this forum last night for about five hours and decided on the game reaper mount for us. I talked to them today to figure out exactly which one and the gentleman said that a 308 is a short action but sometimes the will use a long action setup on the 308. ????? Also I am assuming that since I do not have the Accu Trigger I have a flat back portion. But I don't know how to tell short or long action for mounting the scope. Thanks again!!!