If, and this is a big if, if my Marlin had looked like an old Marlin, (it was a late 70's), with a slender, sexy forearm instead of a sow bellied hunk of walnut missing only the faucets, and a clunky butt stock, that goofy white circle with a black dot, I may have devoted enough time and attention to it to make a shooter out of it. Yeah yeah, I know Micro-Wave or Micro Groove can be made to shoot, but when it wouldn't even group jacketed for my brother, well it just wasn't worth the angst. It didn't last 15 minutes on a gun show table.
If I want to play short cartridge lever guns vs. white tails I have a Model 92 octagon barrel rifle in .38 w.c.f. and it is all sighted in and it looks like a rifle should from 1910.