Thanks guys appreciate the feedback.

Accuracy Testing:
For this I was going to get two boxes of Hornady Whitetail just to get them on paper, then a box of Custom Lite and a box of ELD-X. I do hand load, but never for the 7mm Rem Mag. These are my first in that caliber. Any other factory ammo options that would be better for evaluating each gun?

Mags:
Most elk hunting around here is spot and stalk, so either type of mag doesn't bother me. We pretty much know where the elk are going to be at before we go out. For deer hunting I can do a lot of driving from one place to the next, so a detachable mag is my preference for deer. It's a bit of a pain to get out of the truck and load up, walk 1/4 mile to check out the clearing only to walk back to the truck and unload.

Clean up:
I cleaned up the first one (blind mag). It was really gummy. The safety was hard to operate and the trigger was stiff. The bolt had some dried gunk in it. After a good cleaning and a light coat of oil, it is a whole new gun. This one came with a scope mount. I checked it and the rings weren't aligned, so that got fixed and I lapped them while I as at it. I'm really liking the tang mounted three position safety. I may end up keeping them both and rebarreling one to something else. Now to clean up the second and see how it is.

Stocks:
I have a couple of Howa 1500 mini-actions is Boyds At-One stocks that I really like. There were pillar and epoxy bedded so that was my plan for the 7mm as well.

Quality Control:
The first one (blind mag) was made between 1995 and 2001 (high "F" series). The second one was between 2001 and 2009 ("G" series). Was there any known QC problems during either of those years that I should be watching out for? Searching the forums I saw that the Axis 7mm-08 barrels tend to be problematic and that Savage may have had some bolt QC issues during the 1980's, but I didn't see anything that pertained to these two rifles.