no improvement for me..magazines

[slim rem 7]

 removable mag ..is what im speaking of... usually a rifle with a removable mag is a little more money.. then a little more when i lose that mag...an so on... i know they lock in ,,i also know ,,sometimes when you think they locked in you look at you rifle an the dang thing is gone..
 i know theres plenty here thats never lost one... but me,, id pay  more for built in...
 if im hunting something thats gonna take more than four 180 grn 06s ...i aint gonna be there no way.. slim
 hike to you stand,,get set up ..look at you gun an its a single shot now...jmo we all got that right ...right slim..
ps i know ...if you lockum in right they gonna stay...but i don t always do everything right ...
 know thy self

[MGMorden]

I'm with you on this.  Magazines on semi-autos that are supposed to have a high rate of fire make sense.  Magazines on a bolt action serve no purpose for me.  I pretty much never need more than 1 shot anyways.  The only advantage I see vs blind mag is that you can unload the gun without cycling the bolt, but IMHO a hinged floorplate is a far better solution to that problem. 

Far too often I see mag-based rifles converted to single shots anyways, after the owner looses the mag and reverts to slipping rounds into the chamber by hand.

[Graybeard]

My ARs have removable mags as stated due to the high capacity fire power which is their reason for being. I won't own a bolt action with one other than a rimfire and I think I've bought the last rimfire I'll own with one also. Nope I've never lost one but dang I hate those ugly protruding noisy things.

[Sensai]

I like the looks of a built-in box, but I also like the safety and convienience of a hinged floorplate for emptying the box.  I really don't like shucking rounds through the chamber to unload a gun.  I guess it's just one of my hang-ups, and I've never heard of an accident caused by it; but I just don't like it.  Oh by the way, I agree that magazines hanging down off a sporter is just plain Uuuuuugly.

[Siskiyou]

I much prefer centerfire rifles with a removable magazine.  I have three magazines for my Remington 760.  I bought the last one because I was afraid that at the age of the rifle they might be hard to find.  I have had the rifle over fifty years and I still use the original magazine.  The bluing is gone but it still works.  But then again I have some fixed magazine rifles that have thin bluing on the floor plate.

I have Savage 110CL and I own to magazines for it.  It is over forty years old and I have never lost a magazine for it.
I have a M788 and two magazines for it.  I have never lost one.

As a law enforcement officer, I carried a magazines fed Sig 220 along with spare magazines.  I crawled around in marijuana gardens conducting surveillances and never lost a magazine.

I think they are a great safety feature.  As a kid I started out with a Winchester 94, and then a Savage 99.  Levering rounds out of some lever actions is not as clean of operation.  It is far simple to load and unload a firearm that has a detachable magazine. 

As a tactical hunter if I fire one or two shots at a deer and need to follow-up on a track I quickly replace the magazine I partially used with a fresh one.  It is to my advantage to have one in the chamber and still be able to put a full magazine in the rifle.  Sometimes I am hunting with more than one tag in my pocket to be filled.
I must admit that I have worried about losing a magazine but never have.

I have a M77 with a hinged floor plate, nice for unloading, but it does nothing for fast loading.

[charles p]

I have a Browning BBR rifle with a hinge plate and a removable magazine.  The magazine attaches to the hinge plate.  Mostly its a pain in the butt.  I don't mind shucking a few rounds through the chamber of any of my bolt rifles because I do not cam the bolt closed.  I use the bolt to strip the cartridges only.

I have an old Rem 742 that I bought in 1967.  I soon ordered an extra magazine.  I've never lost the one in the rifle but I have no idea what became of the extra - which is lost.

At my bedside I have a loaded 15 round mag in a pistol, and an extra loaded mag.  Lord help someone if I ever need the 16th - 30th rounds.  There's likely to be a lot of hurting going on, and I assume if I miss 15 times it could be me that is hurting.  My wife has a revolver on her side, so maybe she can make one of her six count.