Thread: floorplate vs detachable magazine

For hunting, i must say i do tend to prefer my rifles that have a flush hinged floor plate, I have a number of Model 7's and a semi custom Rem 700 and my full custom rifle that i specified every part on it and i chose to run a hinged floor plate mag on it too. I do have a couple of T3's and an older Tikka M595 as well which all run detachable mags. I lost the mag of the M595 once while hunting which really pissed me off, not easy to get replacements and quite expensive. About 3 years later I did actually find the lost M595 mag again, which i couldnt believe.

Im now always worried about loosing it again, so much so that when using that rifle i have a wide rubber band slide over it so even if the release gets bumped it will not fall out.

The rifle i use the most is my Model 7 7mm Saum which has a hinged floor plate, and its just easy, nothing to leave behind or fall out. You watch under these new rules of having bolts out of rifles while in cars etc, there will be tones of cases of people leaving the bolt in the glovebox or where ever you keep it.

I can imagine that a detachable mag on a target rifle or varminting rifle can be handy though.