Savage reciever not straight at scope base... wtf?

[J.Baker]

there hand buffed and sometimes its Friday afternoon. bed it or go with 2 piece base & Burris Signature rings.

Ddepends on the age of the action we're dealing with Greg. As the pic's show, this one is a round top so clearly it's 2003 or newer.

It was around 2004 or 2005 that Savage started using the rotisserie vibratory polishing system - the same time that they came out with the high luster bluing on the then new Model 14/114 Classic's. While the high luster finish is no more, Savage still uses this process. Only difference between the "standard matte" finish and the "high luster" finish was that the high luster guns went through a second process in a second unit that had a finer grit of stone in it.