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.
How to load hinged floor plate rifle.
Cartridges are loaded with the bolt in the open position and pushed down into the mag well area of the stock.
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The first hinged floor plate models came out in 1962 and were a big disaster.
Supporting the firearm with one hand position your other hand under the hinged floor plate.
Savage never made a hinged floor plate for your rifle.
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The military style can be converted into a hinged commercial type.
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.
Due to a design flaw the floor plate would open upon recoil dumping the magazine of it s contents.
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Push the release button as shown in figure 7 to unlatch the hinged floor plate.
Slowly allow the hinged floor plate to rotate downward releasing the cartridges into your awaiting hand see figure 8.
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