What a pleasant surprise! I wasn't expecting that. Nice touch. I'm looking forward to getting out to the range.

PS: You need to advertise the awesomeness of your skeleton buttstock. I only found out by accident that the hole in the butt pad allows all those great adjustments for recoil pad height placement and cant. That made all the difference in the world.

Quote Originally Posted by MDTcorp View Post
The oval washer is there because there are 2 different hole spacings on Savage rifles. We highly recommend AGAINST bedding in our chassis.
When installing, make sure that the recoil lug is pressed firm against the chassis prior to tightening the bolts.

You should not need to open up that washer. The lug will touch the chassis before the action screw touches the washer.... But if you want to be very sure, it does not hurt!