Maverick1
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I do not dry fire my rifles. But I have noticed the exact same thing when I use practice round “snap caps” in my Tikkas. The bolt just becomes stiff and harder to operate. I’ve never really given it much thought, though. Just thought I would share that I have three Tikkas that all have the same stiffness to the bolt operation when using the snap caps. Good luck!While dry firing today it developed an extremely hard bolt lift. After you cycle the action it is fine, smooth as always. You dry fire and you almost need two hands to lift the bolt handle up.
I took the bolt from my other Tikka and it runs in the gun just fine. I put the problem bolt in the other gun same thing so I assume it has to be something with the bolt I just can’t see what the hell it is.
I don’t know if I can attach a video but I’ll send it to whoever thinks they can help.