Some improvement often occurs by relieving pressure on the barrel due to the forend/barrel-band/magazine connection. Doesn't matter exactly which "traditional" lever-action it is, whether any of the various Winchester models, or Marlins, or whatever. I described these techniques in my chapter on the .348 Winchester in the first Big Book of Gun Gack.


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