Caleb, you made a great choice, Savage makes a great rifle, and single shot definitely instils the "make each shot count" mindset in the shooter, plus with that rifle, you can shoot multiple different lengths of .22, Short, Long, and Long Rifle
Welcome to THR, and the start of a wonderful, addicting hobby, and make sure you have Jeff Cooper's "Four Rules" burned into your mind
Definitely hold on to this gun, I made the mistake a while back of trading my first .22 that I got got for *my* 16'th birthday for a "bigger, better" firearm, because I was in my ".22's are too wimpy" stage, that "bigger better" gun is long gone, as I never liked it, I really miss that little Marlin 25 .22, and now, at 39 years old, I've come back to .22, and enjoy shooting them *more* than my "bigger" guns, out of all my firearms, the "lowly" .22 sees the most use, as it's simply the most fun to shoot
I have a Savage Mark II-G (the 10-shot bolt action version of your gun), and I absolutely love it, growing up with the Marlin 25 (which looks almost identical), that little 7-shot Marlin taught me to make every shot count*
Welcome to the sport, be safe and have fun
*in fact, I have a hard time playing first-person-shooters on my computer because I simply *can't* "spray and pray", I want to line up the shot, and squeeze off one single, effective round, and always end up getting shot because I'm taking too long