How To Load A Hinged Floor Plate Rifle

Meateater s janis putelis gives careful step by step instructions for how to safely load and unload a bolt action rifle.

How to load a hinged floor plate rifle. See how easy it is to upgrade your trusty hunting rifle with. All are based on the same centerfire bolt action. Remington model 700 is a series of bolt action rifles manufactured by remington arms since 1962. Do you load 4 5 rounds directly into the hinged floor plate model through the bottom.

To unload there is a switch or button usually located by the trigger that when engaged will allow the bottom of the action to open and. The military style can be converted into a hinged commercial type. Both as stated before can be loaded while in the rifle. I purchased two savage factory walnut dbm stocks from nurmrich.

A hinge with it s mortise needs to be created for the front end along with some sort of latch for the rear of the floorplate. Find sportsman cha. As to prices it looks like the savage prices are cheaper than brownells or midway. Not sure if you want black or stainless the weather warrior has both dbms and hinged floor plates.

Watch along as larry potterfield founder and ceo of midwayusa makes a hinge and latch for a standard maser 98 floorplate. Nurmrich gun parts boyd s and stocky s all have dbm stocks. I use a one inch long piece of 5 16 keystock for the hinge laying it half over the forward inside edge of the floorplate extending toward the muzzle.