In the Savage catalog they state "with new hinged floorplate". To date I have not seen one with a hinged floorplate. All I've run across are the clip fed or blind magazine. When I ask the "experts" behind the counters of some of our foremost outfitters ,etal, I come out thinking,(knowing) I just left them with more information than they could possibly comprehend in any given 8 hour shift. So with that said I've come to the Savage forum at Greybeard to get the info I need. I'm asuming by hinged floorplate, their talking about something similiar to say, Ruger or Winchester, fixed magazine w/floorplate or are they keeping the clip "on" a hinged floorplate? Or is there something I'm not undersatnding here. Thanks in advance. CRASH87