A family in our hunting group where die hard browning folks , rifles shotguns down to .22lr pistols . The dad had a BAR and the son a BLR both in 7 rem mag going back to around '86 , maybe a few years earlier . They were no longer nice looking firearms then but hunted well .
I could never buy a gun that pretty to hunt with . If prefer to hunt in the rain and that's waaay to pretty to treat like a tool !! I'm not a lever gun guy . But I know you will be pleased with that rifle if you like lever guns in general .