Is there a physic bore Doctor in the house....................
How can any determination be made without the bore being inspected with a bore scope, anything else is just guesswork.
Clean the bore with foam bore cleaner until it no longer turns blue, then scrub the bore with J&B Bore paste or Iosso bore polish. Try changing bullet manufactures and powders, meaning if you are using a single base powder switch to a double base powder.
You can't break in a barrel if the bullet is gliding over its own jacketed copper material and sticking to itself.
Below is a bore scope photo of a button rifled bore like your Savage has, yours could be better or worse and without being bore scoped everything is just guessing.
I'm not an expert but I collect and shoot milsurps with frosted and pitted bores and a rough bore will eat the copper right off the bullet and leave it stuck in the bore. I clean these frosted and pitted milsurps with foam bore cleaner and when required with J&B bore cleaner. Bronze or copper brushes just get eaten alive in rough bores and get you nowhere fast and just add more copper to your bore and false copper readings. Use the foam bore cleaners and let them do the work without scrubbing and brushing followed by J&B or Iosso.
As you can see in the above photo until you wear down and smooth the high spots in your barrel it will continue to eat copper. You can do this slowly with a shooting and cleaning regiment or by fire lapping, BUT I would want to know what the bore looks like before I decided to fire lap the bore.
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[img width=600 height=434]http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o254/bigedp51/firelapping2.jpg[/img]
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