Lever guns are not really designed to be paper punching, unless you are practicing off-hand, they are primarily a hunting rifle. Have owned virtually all makes of lever guns. For shooting spitzer bullets and ranges out to 4 or 500 yards stick to BLR, Winchester 88 and 1895 and Savage 99. Any of the tube fed guns are limited to flat or round nose bullets that have lousy BCs and generally are limited to a couple hundred yards.
I have a couple of Marlin 45/70s that will shoot well under an inch at 100 yards so accuracy from any lever gun can be pretty good. In terms of what ones typically group the best I would rate them Winchester 88, 1895, BLR then Savage 99, in that order.
If you hand load do NOT load your ammo hot. Locking up a lever is a really unfun thing to do!
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