Ive never converted a Savage, but I have done a few Remington 700 ADL's to BDL. It was never a problem in a wood stock, but I tried to do a synthetic ADL coversion once and found out they mold them stocks with minimal amounts of material and the bottom of the stock was thin around the trigger guard and I cut through the bottom inletting for the full lenght bottom metal. Now it was covered by the bottom metal but the only contact points was where the screws went through. In the 700 it wasnt to much an issue, I have a bedding block of the trigger assembly and was able to use black Acraglas to fill the area and bed the bottom metal. Im sure Savage is the same way, Im sure they use the same internal inletting on their wood stocks for both internal and external mags but they use two different molds for the synthetic.
Im pretty sure it can be done, but I'd check the bottom of the stock and see how much material you have to work with first. If the stock has pillars in it that may be the biggest pain getting them cut down to fit the bottom metal.
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