Okay, I expect to get run out of town for my comments but I have no affection for the big looped levers: I hate how they look and feel (granted, an entirely subjective opinion) and I don't like the fact that they won't fit into a normal sized scabbard and/or gun case. The few times I have handled one, I found them to be slower to operate the lever to fire repeat shots than when shooting with rifles having conventional size levers. Finally, though I have fairly large sized hands and often wear gloves when hunting deer, I have never experienced a problem getting my hand inside the levers of my Winchester Models 94 and 1886 rifles nor into the lever of a Savage Model 99 I own.
Okay, I've had my say, and I'm on the way out of town and will try to stay ahead of the posse.
