After really sitting and looking at my rifle, it seems to be a bit of an oddball. Its a Savage 111 in .308. It has the original barrel stamped Savage 111 .308 so it was originally a long action, the stock is for a long action but the mag well is obviously for a 308. Just kinda strange that they would have a cartridge that can take advantage of a short action bolt and throw it in a long action rifle. Was this common practice in the pre-AT models? I really don't know of any advantages of having a long action over a short unless I planned on having various calibers, but even still I'd have to change the bottom metal as well as the barrel.