MV:
Do take care not to load pointed tip bullets in a tubular magazine. BAD THINGS can happen when you do so. Like the recoil from a cartridge discharging those in the tube magazine, as the points act like firing pins. Never witnessed it, but it has been written about for decades.
More specifically, those accelerator & accelerator-like bullets and sabots use pointed bullets rather than the flat soft points usually loaded in .30-30 commercial ammo. The only pointy ammo safe for use in such lever guns with tubular magazines is the Hornady Leverevolution fodder with the rubbery tip. Rubbery & flexible, not plastic. FTR, the Leverevolution line is generally higher velocity than is usual for the cartridge.
Non-rubbery-tip pointed bullet cartridges are safe to load singly or singly and ONE in the tubular magazine (if it will cycle).
This effectively makes your Marlin a single shot or two-shot gun with accelerator or sabot bullets.
Accelerator:
Managed Recoil:
Rem Managed Recoil .30-30 stats (125gr@ 2150fps) look like a buffed up .30 Carbine. (110gr@1990fps). The flat soft point ought to be even more effective on 2-legged predators.
GUN LIGHT
Very useful addition to any HD long gun. A good idea someone upthread mentioned. I looked this up back a while back regarding wife's lever gun. I found two mount solutions: one sleek & functional and one merely functional.
Functional: Choate Universal Picatinny Rail Mount
https://www.riflestock.com/store/product/universal-picatinny-rail/
$13
I have this mounted on a HD shotgun fore end. Would work on a cheap Maverick shotgun, too.
Requires one to drill a couple pilot holes in the forend. If you don't want to permanently alter your forend, Numrich has wood forends for $35:
https://www.gunpartscorp.com/gun-manufacturer/winchester/rifles-win/1894-2
Sleek: Hill People Gear Lever Light Mount
http://www.hillpeoplegear.com/Products/CategoryID/8/ProductID/135
$110
Review:
https://jerkingthetrigger.com/2017/12/05/review-hill-people-gear-lever-light-mount/
I don't own this one, but sure looks slick.
When I use my own money for a gun light, I buy Streamlight:
https://www.streamlight.com/products/explore-products/weapon-mounted-lights
Entirely satisfied with the three (still functional) TLR-1 lights I have bought over the last decade+.