Actually, shoot enough cast bullet in your barrel and that will polish it for jacketed use.........will take a while though. You can also hand polish using Flitz but make sure you clean well with solvent to remove all the Flitz. J&B Bore Paste can also be used. Make sure your barrel is free floated clear back to the barrel nut. Even though your "tupperware" stock is pillar bedded, I would still glass bed the action. There's a wealth of information in the technical section but you must be a paid member (12/yr) to access it.
Before doing anything, shoot the rifle from the bench to see what kind of accuracy your getting out of the box. For scope mounting, I use the EGW Picatinney base, it solid and has enough adjustment points, you can easily get proper eye relief with the ocular especially with the latest shorter tube scopes. THe EGW can be ordered directly from their web site. There's a dirth of ring sets out there. My preference is for any of the windage adjustable rings so I can leave my internal windage adjustments alone when mounting the scope (Weaver, Millet, Burris, etc).
If your going to stay with a sporter weight barrel, and use the rifle for hunting, the Sierra match bullets will not perform on game as they were not meant to. The A-Max does do well on game and is extremely accurate. I don't believe I wouild waste the money on the factory "tupperware but, you can replace the recoil pad with a prefit Decelerator, your shoulder will than you for it. If It was me, and I knew the rifle shot well, I would replace the factory stock with a B&C Carbelite (glass bedded of course) or a Boyd laminate.
There's so much you can do with a Savage, I could go on and on. Become a paid member and read all the tech articles and decide what you want to do. Everyone here will help you when you run into problems.
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