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If you HAVE to close the bolt on a chambered round (say some fool dropped one in the pipe), do what Paul Mauser designed it to do in that situation.
With your right hand pushing the bolt forward, use the fingers of your left hand (palm aganst the left side of the stock) to squeeze the extractor bow towards the bolt body. This will lift the nose of the extractor enough to clear the case rim.