Now that’s what I love about FR the quick facts right at everyone’s fingertips. I do tend to prefer a bolt over lever (though I always wanted to do the rifleman thing from tv as a kid). I was leaning toward the 30-06 but hadn’t realized there was an accuracy delta. First info I was looking at just had max ranges as similar.
The Chuck Connors “rifleman swing” is a bad idea. The muzzle of the rifle crosses your torso, and an accidental discharge at the wrong time would ruin quite a lot of your days. He could do it only because he had real long arms , and they made sure it was empty when he did it. They dubbed in the sound track of him firing, and you get the sound of 13 rounds firing with him working the action 11 times.
“I always wanted to do the rifleman thing”
There was/is a youtube where they show various semi-autos in use (AR15, AK47’s, etc.). Then this guy in his cowboy hat and 30/30 lever comes in. Looked like he kept up an okay rate of fire. And while moving to the next target was reloading the tube on the run/walk.
There might be a case for having an “old style” lever gun over an evil black gun when the FED comes looking. But I’m guessing that will be the time to USE the gun rather than hiding it.