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>looks better
debatable. and most guys when they go hunting don't fill the tube anyway because it makes the gun front heavy. boomer gunblue mentioned filling up his lever gun the first time he went hunting, getting made fun of by a turbo boomer and then taking the extra mags out because it made the gun front heavy
back in the old injun days where injuns could attack you capacity was important and I guess it doesn't matter much on a trapper, but even by like 1886 (actually earlier than that) you see hunters like teddy Roosevelt getting longer barreled button mag rifles