If I had to pick just one super-duper lever gun and a cartridge to go with it, it would be the Winchester Model 65, in .218 Bee.
As much as I love the Model 64, the little 65 is still the "Sultan of Slick", in my book. My favorite version has a 22" rapid-taper barrel, semi-beavertail fore-end, half magazine, pistol grip stock with shotgun butt, and a bolt-mounted peep sight. If I was a gopher, that's the way I'd want to be taken out. Bees rule, ... Hornets drool.
Second place (or is it third?) goes to the Savage 99H carbine, with barrel band, chambered for the .303 Savage cartridge, ... just 'cuz it's so dayumn cool.
