I'm gonna swap it over to a Marlin XL-7 action but need to take .008" off of the breech to get it to headspace. .
Are you sure? I know it got bantered about a lot, years back on the Marlin forum. But I've re-barreled a pair of my XL-7's with a few different Savage prefits, and had no issues setting headspace.
Maybe you got some funky stack tolerances?
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