One reason I don't like tubular magazines is that, in Nebraska anyway, you can't transport a loaded rifle in a vehicle. So unless you are shooting in your back yard (which I can't inside city limits) you have to unload to get to where you are going and unload again to get home. Or if you drive over to the next field, etc. Lots easier to just pop the mag out than to empty the tube and then refill it again, one at a time. Maybe I'm just lazy? All I know is that my buddy slows me down :p