I've got a Boyd's prairie hunter stock on my Savage 116, when I received it, the front mount didn't seam to be drilled out.
turned it over and, it is drilled, but not all the way, just a tiny bit left. Took a dowel and pushed the remaining piece out.
Then the magazine didn't want to release...
You know, it's fairly easy / inexpensive to convert it to a DBM.
Call Savage and order a DBM "bottom metal" for a .308.
The plastic "bottom metal" runs about $15, metal parts run about $120
Then call Boyd's stocks and get a laminate stock, which run under $100.
With the plastic DBM, stock and...
While it's not a hog hunter, I have a Marlin XS7 in .308 with a 20moa rail.
It's a blind mag like the Savage and I have no problems loading or unloading the weapon, and it ejects the spent shells with no problems.
Have the Same rail on a Savage 11 270wsm and it works the same, although it does...