maxinquaye
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I have a couple old milsurp rifles and a decent shotgun, but I would like to round out my collection with a good semi-auto and a lever action. I have seen a lot of levers and some carbines that fire handgun rounds - from the Ruger PC9 to the winchester levers that fire .44 mag. I would like to pick one up for the obvious advantages of the ammo being compatable with my pistols and possibly cheaper then rifle, depending on calibers. But I have my (unfounded?) doubts about the power, range, accuracy of these rifles. I guess I just cannot imagine that firing a pistol round through a longer barrel would give you comperable performance to a rifle round like .223 or .308, etc. Am I wrong? Please explain to me the relative merits of carbines and the ballistic differences.