The leverpowers were written up in a gun mag in the early 1960's and apart from that single article, I have never seen another reference to them except that I saw one at a gun show in the 1960's. It was an M-94 with a wierd scope mount that allowed the scope to be mounted directly over the receiver, but it was rigged up so that it roated off to the side when the lever was worked so as not to interfere with the top ejection of fired cases. It was a very complicated, Rube Goldberg type of contraption. If you ever saw it, you would understant why it never really caught on. It was heavy and working the action was kind of unnerving with all of those gears and levers and the scope swingiing off and then back in alighnment again.
I never understood why he didn't just rechamber or modifiy a Marlin 336 to the .30 leverpower because you could mount the scope right on top of the solid top receiver and not have to mess with a wierd, complicated, unnecessarily convoluted scope mount for use on the M-94 that swung off to the side when you worked the lever and then swung back over the receiver when you closed the lever after ejecting the fired case.
Better yet, just buy a Savage M-99 in .308 or a Win M-88 in .308. Both rifles were still being made then and were easily attainable.
Now we have the .307 Winchester if you absolutely have to have something more powerful than the 30-30 in a classic lever action so the need for a wildcat on a 30-40 Krag case (shortened and blown out) is questionable. I think the rims on the 30-40 case had to be turned down even apart from all the other hassle involved in modifiying the case.
It was a wonderful handicraft project for people who like wierd, off the beaten path type of cartridges and just making the cases would be a separate hobby all its own.
