Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles What are the advantages of a blind magazine vs hinged floorplate?

Yeah. More "campfire logic".

I like not having my hand on the metal when carrying.
And i dont cycle rounds through the action to empty a blind mag rifle.
Do the bump n flip. Learned that as a kid w my 660 in .222.
Have owned several BDL. Just never used the floorplace feature.

Just something cold to get scratched up IMHO.

I don't think I will ever own another centerfire bolt rifle without AICS pattern mags. Never saw the attraction to blind floorplates, and hinged floorplates are only moderately less annoying.

No , nobody talks about that one much. (Day in question I had just walked back to camp several miles in one of the worst rain storms I had been out in while hunting, clearing my rifle to clean it, I just noticed mag box full of water and thought "interesting, never thought about that".

If people can’t figure out it was a joke...

As I said I only owned 1 ADL and it was a shooter
BUT was never in that situation.


I think guys need to know that’s possible.


Jerry

Blind or hinged floor plate are both good to go. I've had three with rifles with drop magazines including an AR, BLR and a 700DM. I got rid of them. Only rifles like an M14 work well with a magazine that drops out, IMO.

I must be the luckiest sumbuck that walks.

I have 2 rifles with DBMs and most with
Floorplates (hinged) and to date

NOT one has opened on its own
NOR has 1 DBM dropped out.


Frankly I don’t believe ALL the horror stories
some, yes all no.

Blind magazines are on the BOTTOM of my list.
I actually prefer DBMs.

Jerry

What's your definition of "work well?"

As in no problems what so ever. Detachable magazines on the other hand are abominations.

With some exceptions some rifles a detachable magazine is the only way you can get it. But for instance a model 700 with a detachable magazine is the worst idea that came out of Illion.

A M14, M16 and such was necessary for quick recharging of a weapon. In a hinting rifle it’s just junk, IMO.

I like my abominations, and based on the current trend of off the shelf rifles, so do a lot folks. AICS pattern mags work. All the time, without drama.

The fact that your benchmark for magazine fed rifles is the M14, however, is fairly interesting.

I own rifles with both and prefer a floorplate or box magazine for the handiness of it.....Hb

+1!
Very easy to pop the rounds out without cycling.

Not a fan of blind magazines. I want easy access to the well should problems arise.

I don't like the looks of blind magazines and do not purchase blind magzine rifles.

I think there is advantages and disadvantages;

Advantages
1. Don't have to spend enormous amounts of money on new magazines which aren't even available today anywhere
2. you can't lose a blind mag

Disadvantaages
1. takes more time and effort to unload. We still drive deer and have to be unloaded on the road when we come out. Unloading and loading is really the only disadvantage i see.

Realistically, none.

Laughing! PTG bottom metal sucks and if that was my only option I’d have a blind magazine on every rifle I owned. They are wonderful at unloading themselves on your boot tops. Hate them.

Agreed. Not worth a cold puddle of piss.

I’m very inexperienced, buuuut, make mine adl, bdl in a pinch. No “clips” or magazines here…👍