Rifle magazines blind hinged or removable

bniz said:
Been watching You-tube again and can't help to wonder about what most people on that site have saying about magazines. Now most of these people are a lot more knowledgeable about inner workings of firearms than I am as matter of fact some of these people will forget more than I will ever know. But the one thing I cannot agree with is some of them are saying a detachable magazine is better than a hinged floor plate or blind mag. I know it is a matter of preference and mine is clearly a blind mag. It goes like this. Your out checking your traps and you know the little woman back home is expecting you to bring home some meat (happy wife happy life) low and behold you see a nice fat moose that was feeding on some willows now looking straight at you. You know he is not going to stand there for ever and you have work to do. You have one chance to get this done right now. You jump off your skidoo and go for your rifle which is tied in to your toboggan on top of your blanket where it does not get beat up pull it our of your nice beaded gun case your woman has made to fit your rifle and the mag falls into the snow which is 2 feet deep. You go to retrieve it and the moose is gone. That is why I like blind mags and wish they were optional on all bolt guns. We all know that will never happen. I say keep it simple.
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You got it right on all accounts,
Rip her open, drop a trouser pocked warm Shell right into the Barrel and Boom.

100% no Clip for me, floor plate fine but I don't use it. 40years+commercial hunting, I remember a few Clips gone or bent Lips.

Cheers
 
I have all three types , but I lean towards blind mags . I've never lost a mag , but I've known a number of people who have . I even found a Parker Hale mag full of 30/06 rounds on a cut line once , very handy as I owned one at the time . To be honest , I've never felt it made a huge difference for how I hunt , YMMV .
 
If I had to choose on just one system it would be pretty tough. On a lightweight mountain rifle there is a certain amount of wisdom to ditching the floorplate entirely to save weight. If you're being miserly with the ounces this is a serious consideration. But on a traditional wood and blue hunting rifle a floorplate is almost a requirement. But if you're someone that is in and out of a truck or boat, or you're constantly climbing over fences then perhaps you'd want a detachable mag. Of the three, the detachable mag is my least favourite due to the possibility (not that I didn't say likelihood) of loss. I wouldn't rule a rifle so-equipped out, but I would have reservations. That said, if it was a rifle that I particularly wanted I would be hard-pressed to stop myself, DBM or not!
 
nomad 68 said:
Unless your a road hunter or a real crappy marksman, I can't see a need for detached mag personally. Having said this, I do own rifles with detach mag as well as all other variants. Hinged floor plate is my preference. I know more than a few who bought 1 or more extra mags for their hunting rifles and some of whom carry them on them full of ammo while deer hunting. I could never figure that one out lol.Must be expecting a stampede.
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Just bad shots LOL
 
Have 2 extra mags. do a lot of logging road hunting/stop and scan . easier to pop mag in and out.
like driving, make sure your wheel lug nuts are on properly......
 
I don't like the feel of the detachable mags in discount model guns like the Axis. So unless it's an expensive rifle or a Lee Enfield, I'll stick with hinged floor plates.
 
Daver_II said:
I like the old A-Bolt design... hinge plate with a box magazine... flush fit, easy to load/unload and clean lines.
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This system, in my experience is the worst abortion of a magazine ever foisted on the shooting fraternity.

9.3mauser said:
I prefer hinged floorplates. I like the option of being able to dump everything out the bottom and start over if something gets jammed up. Plus you don't have to cycle everything through the action to unload.

I've had friends lose their mags just in time for deer season, and I've lost count of the number of firearms I've seen come up for auction with no magazine. I do own a couple, but it's my least favourite way of loading a firearm.
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This I agree with wholeheartedly. EE.
 
I was a big detachable mag guy. Now I've got 2 hinged floor plates and 1 detachable that is probably going to be sold in the spring. Depending on how I hold my detachable with the sling around my weak arm will shooting unsupported I can trip the mag release. Also I have missed fully seating it once and so cycled the bolt without picking up a round. I've put 1250 rnds through the rifle, so not a regular occurrence, but the floor plate with ammo in an elastic holder on the stock works for me.
 
My main hunting rifle is blind. I keep 9 on the stock in one of those cheap fabric shellholders. I haven't lost any off the stock yet but it is a possibility, no way you're going to lose 9 though. Once I'm on foot it gets 3 down, and if its not super rough country, 1 in the pipe.
 
Daver_II said:
I like the old A-Bolt design... hinge plate with a box magazine... flush fit, easy to load/unload and clean lines.
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I've had to change the spring steel catch that holds the mag to the floorplate, not sure if it's from leaving the mag in the rifle all the time or what but it gets squashed and wont hold the mag. I ordered 4 of them from brownells and just the other day I noticed it's doing it again. I very rarely load the mag on this gun and it sits in the gun 24/7 365 so maybe thats it.
 
POPS said:
Have 2 extra mags. do a lot of logging road hunting/stop and scan . easier to pop mag in and out.
like driving, make sure your wheel lug nuts are on properly......
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I only have the one mag for my rifle, and finding a spare is expensive, around $100.00 from what I see. When did mags get so expensive....
 
If you're a person that is prone to losing things then a dbm isn't for you. I'm not prone to losing things and I prefer dbm rifles. Maybe just because the rifles I happen to like are designed that way. I like tikka mags, nice and flat and always feed reliably and won't fall out on their own. Plus I always have a spare mag in a pocket or pack so if I do happen to lose one it's not the end of the world. I have both against blind mags or hinged floorplates, I used a blind mag rifles for hunting for nearly 20 years. My only hinged floorplates rifles have been ruger 77 mkii rifles and they were both so stiff that you could barely open them with a fingertip. You almost need to use a cartridge to press the release button so I treated those ones as blind mags most of the time.
 
If I like the rifle enough to buy it I work with whatever it is, blind, hinged, or removable mags.

I wouldn't bother changing a hunting rifle over to DBM but I wouldn't worry about purchasing one with it either.

The only rifles I go out of my way to change to DBM are long range precision rifles.

Either way, have lots of extra mags around and NEVER go out in the field without at least 2 spares.
 
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