Winchester has a new ammo line intended specifically for lever-action rifles. Which is fine, they're fun to shoot, and can be downright handy. Which reminded me:
One day a older couple came into the store and were looking at, well, everything, it being their first time there. Wound up with the wife talking to me while the husband was getting details on something, and the subject of self-defense arms came up. She said that they had some land in California they were thinking of retiring to, and what kind of firearms did I think might work well?
My suggestion was a couple of .357 Magnum revolvers, and a lever-action in the same cartridge. Reasons being:
You can load both revolver and rifle with anything from the lightest target loads to the heavy, stomping magnums.
Those magnums, out of a 16" rifle barrel, gain damn near 400 feet per second velocity, with a significant boost in energy.
Make that rifle a saddle-ring carbine and you can clip it to a single-point sling and carry it slung over the shoulder, nice and handy.
And even Californicated has not tried calling lever-actions 'assault weapons' that I know of.
So you've got arms that use the same ammo, with the rifle giving the hot stuff a serious boost, all reloadable(if you do so), and still a very common, easy to get ammo.
I still think that's a good combination for most places. If you're in a place where you might have to deal with bear a heavier cartridge might be better; at best a combo where handgun and rifle both fire .44 Magnum, which gives you .44 Special for lighter loads. Yes, I know, heavier for the rifle if you really need to worry about big game, but you'd lose the 'same ammo for both' option, which could be a problem for some.
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