Recently, I bought one of these packaged Savage rifles, a .243 in a youth model for the new hunters in my family.
I too am pretty impressed with the accuracy of this rifle. The shots were nice and consistent right out of the box-using the Winchester Super X ammo-least expensive brand! I have not bought too many rifles new, so maybe they all shoot that way now a days?
My rationale for buying it was based on the reviews on this forum over the past couple of years. If my daughters enjoy hunting, then, I will probably purchase another rifle and it might even be another Savage. And if the scope packs it in, then I will upgrade that as well. For now, the scope should be fine, I am hoping for a couple or three seasons out of it.
Aside from dropping it and other physical trauma . . . does anybody have any experience on the failure rate of scopes?