Shot an email off to one of my few remaining contacts at Savage Arms with some questions regarding the sale, so we'll see what I hear back.

That was the one downside of the sale of Savage to ATK/Vista - they made it a point that they wanted media types like myself to deal with them (Vista) and not Savage directly. The folks I dealt with were in Minnesota - far removed from Savage, so any time I had a question I had to go through a middle man which made it all but impossible to get answers to follow-up questions or discuss common quality issues raised here with those who could actually do something about it. Hoping this sale will get the communication lines opened up again as they were in the Ron Coburn era.