Wow! This is great! 56 posts and only two called it a clip. Perhaps we are getting better.
I'm a southern yank by birth and we called them clips sorry I still do
And yes I know the difference.Magazines feed ammo into a firearm, clips hold ammo and are used to load magazines. Unlike you guys growing up we were allowed to put more than 5 rounds in our semi's and autos so actually used clips to fill the mags.
I still use clips to load magazines. All of my enfields still have the charge rails on them and for fun, I sometimes use them. I also use clips constantly on my SKSs ans especially when we have qual shoots at work. Have to charge with stripper clips.
Detachable magazines in hunting rifles...why?**Poll Added**
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Hunting has a pretty broad definition under the Act. I have no interest in being charged with hunting before legal time, based on walking down a trail with my gun loaded. If its not loaded, I doubt they would charge you. If its loaded, good luck.
It couldn't get any more subjective. Its pointless to debate esthetics.
Not in my experience. I usually carry the DM in a pocket, with nothing else to rattle against. Insertion is typically a mild 'click', and removal nearly silent. Messing with a floorplate is considerably noisier, imho.
I think that'd be just as often the other way around. Tikka and Lee Enfield come to mind as prime examples.
Not in my experience. CZ, Tikka, Sako .. all work well for me.
This is probably the biggest attraction of the DM for me. No loose rounds to fumble with, and the speed and safety of a quick load or unload.
Biggest drawback of the DM? Don't leave home without it!
exactly.
- Location
- Southern Alberta
I don't like cleaning my dropped shells before trusting that they have no dirt on them AFTER they drop out of my floor plate onto the ground, or into the snow.
I hated doing the partial load to remove them from my Savage lever too.
Detachable in my mind is clean, easy and safe.
I also don't get into the magazine/clip debate. I KNOW it's a Clip cause I shoot a Remington 7600 and it has CLIP stamped right into it!
I hated doing the partial load to remove them from my Savage lever too.
Detachable in my mind is clean, easy and safe.
I also don't get into the magazine/clip debate. I KNOW it's a Clip cause I shoot a Remington 7600 and it has CLIP stamped right into it!
Here is what I have done...
Bolt rifle with a hinged floor plate:
Walk to truck, put hat on truck hood or hold hat under hinged floor plate with the same hand holding the rifle.
Unload floor plate over hat, prove rifle safe.
Gather ammo in hat, put hat on, get in truck and go.
Works well with an SKS or Mosin as well.
Lever rifle...
Hold upside down and cycle ammo into hat as above.
Swedish Mauser put safety in the up/middle setting, tilt rifle onto right side, cycle action and catch rounds into hand holding the rifle.
Surely most of you folks wear a hat while hunting.
Bolt rifle with a hinged floor plate:
Walk to truck, put hat on truck hood or hold hat under hinged floor plate with the same hand holding the rifle.
Unload floor plate over hat, prove rifle safe.
Gather ammo in hat, put hat on, get in truck and go.
Works well with an SKS or Mosin as well.
Lever rifle...
Hold upside down and cycle ammo into hat as above.
Swedish Mauser put safety in the up/middle setting, tilt rifle onto right side, cycle action and catch rounds into hand holding the rifle.
Surely most of you folks wear a hat while hunting.
it is legal to walk in the bush trail with a loaded gun before hunting hrs begin. and it is safer for the carrier! I know this ain't Africa, but it is Mb in the wild! An empty gun is absolutely useless! I hope you don't learn the hard way!
Here is what I have done...
Bolt rifle with a hinged floor plate:
Walk to truck, put hat on truck hood or hold hat under hinged floor plate with the same hand holding the rifle.
Unload floor plate over hat, prove rifle safe.
Gather ammo in hat, put hat on, get in truck and go.
Works well with an SKS or Mosin as well.
Lever rifle...
Hold upside down and cycle ammo into hat as above.
Swedish Mauser put safety in the up/middle setting, tilt rifle onto right side, cycle action and catch rounds into hand holding the rifle.
Surely most of you folks wear a hat while hunting.
but still, would you not agree that it's easier, smoother and quicker to:
>push button
>drop DM into hand and into pocket
>prove
hat stays on head the whole time, no goose s**t, snow or rain in your hair (or shiney spot) and your seeing eye glasses are not all speckeled up!
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What does that mean? If you are doing nothing wrong or illegal, why do you have to "unload quick" just because someone is coming?
I am swimming against the current here, right alongside the OP, because I don't want a detachable mag, or even a floorplate. The mag is just one more thing to lose/forget/drop in the mud. When I'm too old and feeble to walk away from the truck and have to road hunt...I still won't want a detachable mag! Do you guys actually have your shells flying all over the place when you cycle your action to unload? It doesn't take that much dexterity to safely catch them as you gently cycle the action in a controlled manner. A floorplate can be opened so as to dump the loads into your hand easily.
It's all personal preference. Is the detach mag more efficient from a purely practical, non-aesthetic point of view? Maybe. Is it more convenient? For sure...but it's also more convenient to buy meat than provide it yourself, in most cases. I, and 99.999% of us, don't go out with a gun because we absolutely need to kill something today in order to survive. We hunt almost entirely by choice. Under those circumstances, nobody's right and nobody's wrong.
yeah Kelly, they say that hunter's with the blind mag rifles have to use binoc's to watch for vehicles coming in order to have enough time! That takes away from valuable hunting time. They're not for me, DM's all the way, man! or I stay home!
dinsdale
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Just outside the Ottawa City Limits!
In Ontario, gun or bow or crossbow must be encased and unloaded before and after hunting hours.
2012 MNR Hunting Regs said:
That's not the same as road hunting, is it?
am I understanding this correctly, you are the driver of the motorized vehicle, the engine is running and you have forward motion, you are searching for big game, rifle is handy as is the ammo, but it's not a loaded gun at this time, correct?
Could you get a buddy to take some pics, get one of the rifle and ammo inside the cab and with you at the steering wheel, be sure to smile, pics turn out best with a happy face showing, also a pic from the front or the rear showing the lic plate number on the vehicle. Jack is anxiously awaiting pics for his big album of Hunter's in Motion, I believe he call's it. Just post them here, that's fine, he'll pick them up.
Its not the unloading of my floor plate rifle that bugs me so much, its when I get out of the truck and have to fish five cartridges out of my pocket that might contain more then just those five cartridges. Then individually load them into my rifle while picking off any junk that also fell into my pocket on the last push.
But what I dislike more is hunting that way in the first place, I think there is a reason I haven't shot a big buck yet.
But what I dislike more is hunting that way in the first place, I think there is a reason I haven't shot a big buck yet.
