Barrel was not indexed at the factory mainly due to the barrel nut headpacing process. Also the scope base holes are not parallel with the bore, but this would only affect windage.
The barrel was not straightened good enough causing the indexing issue.
You can either send it back to Savage and they'll fix it, or you can get yourself the Burris Zee rings. The Zee rings have inserts that can be used to offset the direction of the scope, meaning you can get withing a few moa of zero with out even touching the scopes turrets.
They also make them in Tactical 6-cap Zee rings. Another advantage of the Zee rings is that they squeeze the scope tube very uniformly and don't leave any marks on the tube.
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