How does the hinged floor plate magazine work on the Remington 700?
Can anyone tell me how the hinged floor plate magazine works on some of the Remington model 700’s? Since it is an upgrade to the detachable magazine, I’m assuming its all one piece? If anyone has any pictures of this gun with this type of magazine that would be appreciated as well.
Inside the trigger guard (towards the front) is a button that, if pressed, will release the "trap door" floorplate. It actually opens sort of violently since it is under spring pressure. Anyway, that floorplate has a spring attached to it (in the form of a folded piece of flat springy metal) that is connected to the follower.
In function, it works exactly like a detachable magazine, except that it is not detachable, and that it can be unloaded from the bottom. I am partial to floorplates because they are flat and smooth, and therefore less cumbersome. Of course, they have a much more limited capactiy. My Remington 700 CDL can only hold four 7mm Rem Mag, and that includes one in the chamber. Enough to hunt with, of course, but if you’re looking for some other applications a larger capacity would be desired.
I’ll try to take some pictures of mine when I get home and find a way to post them.
Edit: As promised, here are two photos of mine. Yahoo is being weird about not letting me submit this link to photobucket, so I’m splitting up the URL. Just take out the spaces and paste it into your address bar.
http:// s292.photobucket. com/albums/ mm9/texaspride_photos/
September 29th, 2009 at 3:48 am
It’s like a rectangle door, slightly bigger than the size of a loaded cartridge. Then there is a flemsy piece of metal attached to the door so it goes inside the chamber when door is closed. The piece of metal is folded over once and attached the other end of it is the floor plate where the cartridge sits when the door is closed. There is a little push tab in or near the trigger guard (on mine). Picture here: http://www.gunsandammomag.com/long_guns/GApair_042205H.jpg
Edit: Oh, and I forgot to mention that the folded piece of metal acts as a spring so the next round will push up once you expend the empty cartridge you just shot.
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I have a Remington model 700 .30-06
September 29th, 2009 at 4:04 am
Inside the trigger guard (towards the front) is a button that, if pressed, will release the "trap door" floorplate. It actually opens sort of violently since it is under spring pressure. Anyway, that floorplate has a spring attached to it (in the form of a folded piece of flat springy metal) that is connected to the follower.
In function, it works exactly like a detachable magazine, except that it is not detachable, and that it can be unloaded from the bottom. I am partial to floorplates because they are flat and smooth, and therefore less cumbersome. Of course, they have a much more limited capactiy. My Remington 700 CDL can only hold four 7mm Rem Mag, and that includes one in the chamber. Enough to hunt with, of course, but if you’re looking for some other applications a larger capacity would be desired.
I’ll try to take some pictures of mine when I get home and find a way to post them.
Edit: As promised, here are two photos of mine. Yahoo is being weird about not letting me submit this link to photobucket, so I’m splitting up the URL. Just take out the spaces and paste it into your address bar.
http:// s292.photobucket. com/albums/ mm9/texaspride_photos/
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September 29th, 2009 at 4:15 am
You feed your cartridges into the gun one at a time through the open bolt. If you need to reload the gun, rather than cylcing the bolt 5 times to kick the 5 cartridges out, you simply open up the floorplate and 4 cartridges spill out, then you work the bolt once to eject the cartridge that was in the chamber.
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