Mine's a Rossi 92SRC. Blued, 16" barrel, normal lever. Same 1892 design platform, which I prefer to both the 1894 and the Marlin designs. I like it so much, a few years ago, I bought one for my father-in-law for Christmas; his is the short-barrel .44 mag, with the large "Trapper" lever. (He's a huge John Wayne fan.)
Back seven or eight years ago, I borrowed a chrono and did some tests with mine, alongside my 4" smith 681. I knew the carbine barrel and closed breech would increase velocity, but didn't realize how much. Don't recall the load data off hand, but I tested some of my own .38spl and .357 loads out of both. What just flat shocked me was that a normal .38 spl 158-grain swc from the carbine was faster (and therefore more powerful) than my 158-grain .357 magnum load was out of the handgun. Don't recall the numbers, but that stuck with me; one of those "hmmm" things, since a .357 handgun is commonly accepted as ok for our size deer, but .38's in a lever gun would be reflexively laughed out of deer camp. Go figure.
Using rifle powder (AA #7, iirc), it'll push 125-grain bullets over 2,000 fps, and even 140-grain bullets to right at 2,000. To be fair, you do get somewhat flattened primers at those levels, but nothing major enough to noticeably shorten case life for reloading.
I've had some lively go-rounds on-line when pointing out the pistol-caliber lever-action's capabilities: (Isn't that right, JD...?

) The gun itself is smaller than any other shoulder gun I own, including my .22LR's. Using .38 spl loads, you get 8+1 capacity, greater-than-357 (handgun) power, and literally almost zero blast or recoil.
If you got the gun with a normal 20" barrel, these advantages would be even greater. Even more velocity, even less recoil and blast, greater magazine capacity, etc.
With a tube mag, you can top off the magazine anytime, without dropping the ammo that's in it. There are no "loose" pieces to keep track of (magazines, etc). No question it's slower than an auto, but a lever's preferable (imo) than any other action type. I've short-stroked a pump gun; never have a levergun. It's accurate enough for any defensive or hunting needs out to over 100 yards; a Marlin would be good for even farther out.
To carry one step further, consider a lever gun in .454 Casull. SAAMI chamber pressure max on this caliber is 63,000 cup, same as the .300 win mag. Factory loads from a revolver can get a 240-grain bullet to 2,000 fps from this caliber. (Hornady 240 XTP-Mag). Let's assume a sealed-breech action and an extra foot of barrel only increase that by 20%, which is probably conservative. That'd be 2,400 fps; or
3,068 ft/lbs of energy, enough for anything up to elk. But say you don't have elk in your area, and don't want or need that much power. OK, drop down to the lower .454 loads, which give 1,600 or so, which give 1600-1700 ft/lbs in a handgun; say 2,400 in a rifle. Or the CorBon "+P" .45 Colt load, which gives around 600 ft/lbs in a handgun; figure 800 or so in the rifle. On & on, all the way down to the .45LC "Cowboy" loads, that give 300 or so in a handgun and 400-500 in a rifle. And those are just factory loads. If you reload, you can have literally ANY power level you want in between.
In the one gun, with no conversion kits, no chamber adaptors, no different magazines, no aftermarket or add-on parts at all, you've got a gun with anywhere from 300 to 3,000 ft/lbs of energy; think about that. One gun, you could use for anything from rabbit to elk. If Rossi's .454 lever gun had existed at the time, I'd have bought my father-in-law that, rather then the .44 magnum. The .454 would be much more versatile, plus it's available in stainless steel.
In all honesty, if someone made a box-magazine-fed, semi-auto carbine in .454 (not likely, with a rimmed cartridge), my CAR-15 wouldn't be carried nearly as much, at least off-duty; and my M1 carbines might never get used again. [/blasphemy=off] :duck: