That is the usual suspects.
The most common issue is NOT removing EVERYTHING first. Countless people leave scope bases on, shear a screw into the receiver, then lock the barrel in place. Don't be those people.... I'll lend you my T-shirt from the club :)
Next is the nut it's self. They can be Sweet-baby-jesus tight. I have had to get a dremel and cut them off.
Otherwise, the only real *trick* is properly holding things when you tighten the lock nut(barrel nut). Lots of hillbilly engineers don't properly hold the action/barrel properly, and when they tighten the nut; inadvertantly change headspace.
You may or may not, have magazine feeding issues. That gets chocked-up to Savage crap QC. I've changed a 7mm Rem Mag to 22-250 and everything was fine. I've taken a 30-06 to 264WM and had to tweek things.
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