I don’t worry about headspacing off the belt. I treat them like unbelt cases 0.002” shoulder bump.
Over sizing belted cases will lead to case head separation in a hurry.
Good to hear you got an update on your barrels.
I’ll be lucky if I see my barrel by the end of the year. With no tooling in sight , I was told they were going to try to find me a barrel before then. Not sure what to read into that "find me a barrel”
When you borescope a Savage barrel , one wonders how they even could hit a target. They are the roughest bores I’ve seen and doggone they shoot well.
With the barrel nut you can change barrels at will.
I wonder those who have 8-10 year old loaded ammo , what would be the outcome of squeezing the trigger on one of them.
You would think Hodgdon would buy back all that powder before someone finds out the hard way.