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I have never cared much for a floor plate. So ADL is what I would choose. Just my 5 cents…
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I have never cared much for a floor plate. So ADL is what I would choose. Just my 5 cents… Do you have any ADL style rifles, are you familiar with them?
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Adl with a stock designed as adl - ks, montana, ula/nula.
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Is there any reason/theory why ADL would not feed has well as a BDL?
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I have never cared much for a floor plate. So ADL is what I would choose. Just my 5 cents… Do you have any ADL style rifles, are you familiar with them? Absolutely, I have a Remington 700 SS, 5 NULA’s, 1 Forbes, 2 rebuilt CLR’s, a Kimber Montana, and an OutKast Arms Kimber custom. I also own at least 4 rifles with floor plates, a pre-64 Model 70, a Ruger 77, Christensen Ridgeline, and a Weatherby MK 5. There have been many others of both flavors as well, particularly the Kimber Montana and Mountain Ascent. I just like the ADL style better. No worries about dropped shells and no metal plate to make your hand colder. AKwolverine makes a very good point about stock design.
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Either. Unloading an ADL is more time consuming.
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Adl with a stock designed as adl - ks, montana, ula/nula. Good point. An ADL on a stock that is "squared off" on the bottom to handle the BDL bottom metal doesn't feel right in the hand in ADL configuration. A bunch of Manners' stocks are like this. On the other hand the stocks you mentioned are more rounded under the action and carry nicely in the hand.
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Either. Unloading an ADL is more time consuming. To me, often when I open a floor plate, multiple items land on the ground, including spring and follower, I’ve never owned a gun with ADL setup, Don’t mind BDL, just don’t see the usefulness of it.
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Either. Unloading an ADL is more time consuming. To me, often when I open a floor plate, multiple items land on the ground, including spring and follower, I’ve never owned a gun with ADL setup, Don’t mind BDL, just don’t see the usefulness of it. Often?
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“Often”, I don’t open the floor plate often, but percentage wise, when I do, it happens too often.
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All my rigs are ADL and that is what I started with in the 70’s. I won’t go into why they might be better as it will start the “fire”. To each their own. There are some states that don’t allow travel with ammo in the belly. If I lived in one of these states I would consider BDL for ease and speed of unloading.
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Prefer ADL. Simpler and lighter. Plus, I don't care for Remington bottom metal. On other rifles I don't mind a floorplate. In fact, I've become a fan of a DBM.
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ADL vs. BDL isn't a big deal in my book.
It's easier to dry out a BDL-style rifle after it's been out in heavy rain and ADL-style rifles tend to be less expensive.
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Given the choice of 2 identical rifles on the shelf, I'd nab the blind bottom every time. That said, I live and hunt in areas that allow one to leave rounds in the belly in or out of the vehicle, so, its actually pretty rare that I DON'T have rounds in the magazine during season. Meaning I don't have to empty the magazine until season is over and the rifle is headed for the safe for a while.
I've only "mag-dumped" a hinged floor-plate once. I had a dead elk that decided to un-dead itself. I had the rifle sitting on the toe of the stock and a set of bipods. When I picked up the rifle, I tripped the release button on my M70 Classic SS. In the grand scheme, the elk died for good a few seconds later but it made things more sporting than they needed to be for a quick second.
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“Often”, I don’t open the floor plate often, but percentage wise, when I do, it happens too often. If your spring and follower are landing on the ground often, there may be other issues to address. That shouldn’t be happening.
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I don't know that I prefer one over the other. Have both. Seems my favorite riles have seldom had floor plates And I don't find them good or bad. Never had a floor plate fall open on me and never had one fall out unloading a rifle. Then again I keep one hand on the floor plate and don't allow it to fall open. I think if you just let it drop open your asking for trouble. Also if it falls open then the ammo in it all goes on the ground! I hate it if a case hits the ground! Even when I shoot an animal I use my free hand to catch the mty coming out.
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