In the spirit of the good old cowboy quick draw .... I must admit that I have a certain fondness for my .44 Mag S&W revolver. I had to splurge and get the nice hand tooled leather holster and all .. there was a place going out of business and I swooped right in there ... LOL! Saving up for a good lever action cowboy rifle ... someday!
I got a 30-30 lever carbine thinking that would be cool, but it runs hot enough to fry an egg after two rounds, and it kicks like a mule. There is probably something wrong with the interior geometry. The 45 WinMag pistol is supremely accurate and has 1/2 the whomp of the 12 gauge with mag slug at the muzzle, very similar to the 44 mag, but for just fun the 45 Colt single action can hardly be beat.