I bought a (used- very little) Tikka T3 338 Win Mag off the internet from a person in AK in January.

The guns shoots fine, except it doesn't want to extract the spent cartridge. The bolt will rotate without a problem, but I have to stand it on its but and pound the opened bolt to get it to eject the cartridge. It will eject an unfired cartridge like it is supposed to.

I have shot Federal 225 grain TSX and TBBC in it. Bought a box of Winchseter 225 Accubonds to try.

It does appear the Fed cartridges are growing a little, will find out soon if the Winchseter's work. If they do I guess I would contact Federal, if the Winchesters dont' guess I send it to the manufacturer and hope for the best.

Anyone had similar problems that can shed some light?

I had a similar problem with a Rem 700 in 7mm Weatherby. It would feed and fire but I had to stand on the bolt to get it open. Once it opened it would eject just fine. We traced the problem to a rough chamber, after much polishing of the chamber the problem disappeared.

were the federals factory or reloads? i got the same problem from federal and reminton brass from my reloads. usually the 3 or 4th shot on the reloaded brass,it would do the same thing.

winchester brass dosent seem to expand as much. let us know what you find out