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I ran matches for many years. We had an event called Cowboy Silhouette. Used lever guns and single shots, rimmed cartridges only, on handgun steel critters, out to 200 meters.
I got to see a lot of lever guns in pistol cartridges shot by some good and not so good shooters. The best to shoot and the most accurate was the 357. After 40 rounds, the 45 and 44 just beat up the shooter to no end. The 357 shooter was still smiling and was still whacking away.
The little Marlin is great and a tip off scope mount with a 2x or so scope is a real winner.
Oh, and if you reload, you are not stuck with pistol bullets and pistol velocities. The 180 and 200 gr rifle bullets in a 357 rifle do work good. You just need to watch the OAL in a lever gun, so they will function through the action.
Ed
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