Will a modern made Lever Action survive 6000 rounds over 3 days without issues?

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A competition near us run by a bud of mine is looking to run a couple stage guns, based on the number of stages they'll be used in an the number of shooters it is antipated that they'll have 3000 to 6000 rounds put through each of them.

A bolt action wouldn't struggle at all with this, but will a Lever Gun such as the Rossi M92 do ok?
 
My M92 is a mid 2000s era production stainless 38/357. It’s seen 4-5000+ rounds of 38 loads without issue.

Ran hard and fast by multiple shooters in a short span, I wouldn’t be so confident. I’d like to think it could handle it, but wouldn’t be surprised if something failed also
 
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I don’t think you’d need to worry about a catastrophic failure but I would guess you will have issues with stuff like extractors/ejectors failing just due to the volume of use. That kind on schedule doesn’t seem conducive to regular cleaning. To be fair though I wouldn’t be surprised to see a lot of bolt guns struggle with that either.
 
Marlin or Winchester might. Rossi to me isn't a good quality manufacturer, but I guess there's only one way to find out. And make a video showing it too!
 
If it's cowboy type loads you are hardly doing more than cycling the thing each time you fire. If you have balls out max pressure loads I wouldn't expect much difference. Whatever failure there is would probably be minor.

Why is this in B&G rifles? If we are counting levers in this section now we are even worse off than I thought.
 
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Any gun can be expected to have issues with such a grueling firing schedule. 6,000 rounds is the standard endurance test for any US service gun, and even those are not expected to get through the test without some stoppages and parts replacement.

I would not expect bolt guns to be trouble free. Any discussion I've seen says most centrefire bolt guns need new barrels after 3,000-5,000 rounds. I don't know what your friend is trying to accomplish, but the course of fire you're describing is basically going to use up the entire service life of any gun that enters it.
 
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A competition near us run by a bud of mine is looking to run a couple stage guns, based on the number of stages they'll be used in an the number of shooters it is antipated that they'll have 3000 to 6000 rounds put through each of them.

A bolt action wouldn't struggle at all with this, but will a Lever Gun such as the Rossi M92 do ok?
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I don't know about a Rossi, I'd be surprised.

Henry, Marlin/Ruger, or Winchester and I'd be surprised if there were any problems.
 
With 3 to 6K in ammo with multiple shooters over a short period of time, I'd be surprised if any gun didn't give you some kind of grief. Short cycled, busted extractors & any kind of self inflicted jam trying to load or unload come to mind. Whatever your choice, I'd really like to hear about the outcome & if it comes out of it trouble free... Then I want to know when Glock started making lever actions... LOL!
 
The “competition” wouldn’t even last a minute with an M134 minigun. No action, just filling the donut with cream 🥯 🥲
 
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A competition near us run by a bud of mine is looking to run a couple stage guns, based on the number of stages they'll be used in an the number of shooters it is antipated that they'll have 3000 to 6000 rounds put through each of them. A bolt action wouldn't struggle at all with this, but will a Lever Gun such as the Rossi M92 do ok?
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I'd ask the folks who do Cowboy Action shooting.

My gut says that if you used quality ammunition, and you cleaned it regularly during the match, it might do fine.

I would not assume that any given bolt action would be fine with that kind of round count. Plenty of bolt guns would have barrels shot out well before that, not to mention wear and tear on the action. They're generally just not built for high round counts.
 
Bolt action is superior within repeaters. There's a reason that it was selected by military all round the world and lever action was not, except extreme cases of need. With two equally good made rifles - lever and bolt action, latter will last longer, will work more reliably, will require less maintenance.
 
My experience with my Marlin levers is that after a few rounds of standard velocity ammo, once the barrel heats up, accuracy flies out the window. I suspect it is pressure points and perhaps the wood stocks and forearms.
 
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