Well since its savage vs. remington, ill take the remington since its got home field advantage, LOL.
In all seriousness, I am a Rem 700 guy. Have been since I acquired my first 700 which I still have, an old ADL in a .222 rem. It'll shoot 1/4" groups at 100 yards off a bench more times then not. Since then, I've had about 10 different 700s and all of them have shot to my expectations of MOA or under at 100 yards with nothing more then a trigger job to around 2# and my reloads with ease.
On the other side of things, I've bought and played with I think 3 savages now and everyone turned out to be the biggest turd I think anyone could get. 1 of them was not even out of the box "shootable", the other 1 wouldn't shoot a 1.5" group or better at 100 yards with close to $200 spent on bullets/powders/primers/OAL combos, and the other would shoot 1/2" some days, then other days I'd shoot a 5 shot group at 100 yards and have 2 of the 5 not even hit the 8x11" piece of paper. On top of all that, they just feel like a childrens rifle to me, like a big plastic toy really. Shake the gun and you hear things rattle, I just cant get to excited about Savages anymore.
So I've bought and played with 3 savages and none were even close to my standards of how a rifle should shoot. I know there ugly and cheap, but if they shoot I wouldn't really care, however when there ugly, cheap, and dont shoot, I have absolutely no place for a rifle like that in my house.
Only Rems and Wins for me anymore...Looking at 3 rem 700s and 1 win 70 right now. Good looking, good feeling, well put together rifles that shoot even better then they look.