It happens to actual hunters crawling around in briar and brambles. Perhaps it doesn't happen to armchair hunters
ouch, I've never been called an armchair hunter before. I need to add that to my naughty names page in my diary. my average hunt involves walking, usually no less than 1 mile and sometimes as much as 13 miles over rough terrain, sometimes through brush, sometimes through thickets, sometimes through stubble fields, and sometimes up near vertical hillsides. I hope that disqualifies me as an armchair hunter. I still, have not lost a single magazine while hunting.
The point being is that there are loads upon loads of people who just don't know that detachable mags are useless as teats on a boar hog, because they are newb hunters or armchair hunters, and they're buying into the hype and marketing
personally, I love the idea of having 2 or 3 magazines in my pocket, spotting an animal which is not my intended quary, but still fair game and then picking the magazine which is most useful for that particular animal and firing without having to individually jack rounds out or catch them as they fall out when I unhinge the floor plate. that's not marketing, that's just practical utility pure and simple. infact I had never even thought of doing that until I went hunting with my little brother who had an enfield who had 3 mags, one of SSTs for deer, one of heavy round points for elk, and one of FMJs for coyotes... the practicality of that setup in a bolt action astounded me and I've been applying it to hunting ever since. I rarely go hunting without at least one big game mag, medium game mag, and a varmint mag. again, that is real world practicality not marketing.
And someday, when some of these newb & armchair hunters become actual hunters, a small but significant minority of them will be cursing the conventional wisdom when they lose a mag,
perhaps but this sounds more like the angered ranting of a single disenfranchised person that has had the misfortune of losing the batteries for his toy car and doesn't want to play anymore. as I've said, I have a couple hours out in the wide open spaces, I have not lost a magazine, but that's not to say I might not someday. however if I did lose a mag, it would be no different from a hinged floorplate coming undone, in fact I would likely lament the loss of the ammo in the mag more than the mag itself and the same would happen with the floorplate.
as for no utility at all, you apparently have never had a gun completely lock down on you. I have, bolt so tight it required a beating with a hammer, something which I would not have wished on anybody without a hinged floor plate or detachable magazine because when it happened to me, I still had 3 rounds in the magazine. I would not have even touched the damn thing if I had no way of removing the live ammo before hand. I'm sorry that you've lost a mag, but that does not mean that every person, or even most, will ever lose on in the field and to claim zero utility because you've had a booboo is completely narcissistic.
also we are getting off topic, topic is how terrible black friday is
