Driftwood's cautions are excellent and accurate. Good job, as not every body is 'up' on the assorted changes that have happened within the last decade, regarding pressures and suitable actions for them.
There is a board named leverguns.com that has some real life experts in normal, daily residence. You are quite likely to run into Jim Taylor, John Taffin, Paco Kelly [it's his board, in fact] and other lever luminaries under nom de plumes. John
Barsness is available at 24 Hour Campfire [ask the writers], and Mike Venturino -- who should get more respect for his real knowledge, is available thru Rifle/Handloader. Not to say that there aren't other equally worthy resources out there, but that these folks come to mind.
The Buffalo Bore owner, BTW, does extensive pressure testing thru an independant lab, and his site makes interesting reading. He most definitely reconizes the disparities in the assorted pistol and rifle models, of which all may be chambered for a common cartridge, but which mos' def are NOT suitable for all the different pressures in which that cartridge may be loaded.
On a personal note, I've found plain old .38 Spec's fired in a little Marlin .357 carbine, to be great and economical centerfire fun. Yup, I do brass brush that chamber regular like, too. One of the Marlin CAS .38 Spec-dedicated levers would just be great, but that's a lotta money for a plinker. DeLuxe, tho, if ya can do it without wincing in the wallet area.
Ok, back to the salt mines.
