What kind of Lever Action do you own? I have 3 myself...
I have a very sweet and pretty rare Marlin 335, octagon barrel 30/30 saddle gun.... Purchased brand new in a Roseburg OR gunshop back in 1973, for the total sum of $95.00. It kept a lot of venison in the freezer back in the day.... Most of my hunting back then was on horseback, and the little Marlin was almost always a certain one shot kill. Deadly accurate with it's open buckhorn sights.
Although I haven't even fired it in many years, I can't/won't likely ever let it go.
FLc