Never heard of such a thing. You know about "Righty tighty, lefty loosy", right?

Sorry.

I would contact Savage and ask them to accept a return for them to deal with. I csay it can be removed, but only if I knew why it was so tight to begin with. If I didn't put it together, can't say for sure. If you do remove it, there's no telling if you will need it enlarged and rethreaded. Dang thing is too inexpensive and cheap to make it worth risking having to mess with that possibility.