Hard bolt closing on brand new tikka

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Lil-Rokslider
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So my buddies son just bought a new 7mm08 tikka. Bought several boxes of Barnes vortex ammo. It is hard to close the bolt on that thing. I went down and shot it after they were telling me about it.
I own 3 tikkas and have never had any of those issues. This all just happened an hour ago so not a lot of problem solving yet. First I was going to bring my tikka 08 down there and see if I had trouble closing my bolt. I was going to bring my calipers and check the rounds.
But what do you guys think is wrong? I often hear of chambers tight but tikkas? I’m thinking the ammo?
 
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Lil-Rokslider
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Yeah I have been googling since. Like I said I just went down there to see what was up. He just had a brand new rifle that’s being picky. I told him we will figure it out
 

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I only ever had this issue with some Hornady ammo, tikka and a M70 were the rifles. 243 and 270win. After resizing non issue. And didn’t experience anything odd or concerning after firing the factory rounds.
 
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