Just plan on cleaning the chamber with solvent and the chamber brush , leave any polish work up to gun smith if that's required.

Got it on the feeler gauges, continue to scratch my head they would not get on this.

Concepts are well internalized, just not used to applying them to this, new and interesting area.

I won't mention in detail about a Fire Pump we got turning backward because of a revere water flow and the engine started as it had a fuel source (failure of some kind)

That's the sort of thing that your brain twisters in a pretzels over for sure! A bit similar as had not heard of or experienced it but the Savage has got some aspect to it on the bolt I had never seen and different from others.