Lever Actions.

Lever Action 260 or 6.5 Grendel. These are some great calibers offering great performance. This would also be a great weapon for youth shooters. Great teaching tool, and not as abusive on an 8 year old as a 30-30.
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Pointy rounds in leveractions can cause firing in the mag tube during recoil unless the tips are sufficiently buffered. Hornady has done this with their Leverevolution rounds, but do not make these in either 260 or 6.5 Grendel.
 
To keep the post on topic. I would like to go back over the safety thing. Testing is being done, and all options are being looked at. Intentional detonation is being attempted. As well, Federal Ammunition makes 30-30 Ballistic Lead Tipped Partition rounds at 170gr. These are not soft, or flex tips. They are lead ballistic tips. Factory ammunition for 30-30. So moving away from the worries of safety, we are talking strictly performance.

I understand how to reload, and I know how to develop a soft load. I am specifically looking at the ballistic capabilities of different rounds chambered in a lever action.
 
I don't think either caliber would sell. Both calibers are not all that popular with the shooting public. {and probably will never be.} Savage introduced the shooting public to their idea of a hot little cartridge in their model 99. 250-3000th and it wasn't all that big a seller. Neither was the 243 marketed in the same model. Marlin ventured once into producing a couple of their lever models in smaller calibers that were discontinued because they too showed so little in interest and sales. (25-36--256 Mag) Thus the 6.5 Grendal and any 26 cal designed to fit a lever application would probably not gain enough momentum in the Board Room. Unlike our elected Officials. Firearm manufactures do lean from their mistakes.
 
While not a .260 or 6.5, you can definitely have that kind of performance in an existing lever action platform.

Browning BLRs are available in both .243 and 7mm-08.
 
Lite 30/30

Federal makes 125 gr load for 30/30. 10 year old girl , 65 lbs shot 1 st deer with
Marlin 30/30. Lots of kids and women have shot this load with no kick complaints. Pistol calibres limit range and are harder for novice shooters to
judge shot because of rainbow trajectory.
 
against the grain

I'm gonna go on record that I am not a fan of traditional lever carbines, with or without a safety, for newbies. Now I realize that many of us started on the venerable Winlin carbine, many likely w/o the safety and that I will likely draw some flame on this.

But safety or no, I think that having to lever all the rounds in and out of the chamber to empty the tube mag to clear a Winlin, and lowering the hammer on a live round, and proper use of the traditional half cock safety on older rifles, are complex operations for newbies. It also requires a bit of hand strength and understanding that youngsters may not have, or petite women either. I have seen that with bamaboy at a young age, and bamawife as well and a Marilin .357. I also firmily believe, cause I have seen it with my own eyes, also, that there are experienced folks that do not understand the old half cock as well.

For that reason, I always suggest a moderate bolt rifle, say 7.62x39 or .243, with removeable mag or drop floor plate as a first deer/medium rifle.
Manual of arms is easy, and requires only 2-3 moves. Yes, the best safety is using our heads and the 4 basic rules, but less manipulation is a help as well.
 
I agree. Back when there was a lot of hunters in PA, there would always be a shot before daylight on the first day. At first I thought it was somebody with a spotlight, but eventually I figured out it was someone loading a '94.
 
I have long suspected that the detonating tube magazine was a rare fluke. It would be more possible if a combination of heavy rounds loaded with pointy bullets and sensitive primers in a tube magazine with a weak spring. That could allow a kind of slide hammer effect under strong recoil. Those long coil springs do need replacing occasionally. I've had to do that in a couple of guns.
 
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