If I'm gonna deal with the length, weight, and storage issues of a rifle, I want a rifle. A pistol-calibre carbine only gives you the worst of both worlds; it's either an underpowered rifle or an enormous pistol, with none of the advantages of either. Leave the pistol cartridges in pistols. I know a couple of folks who use .357/.44 leverguns for close-range deer hunting, but that's the only such weapon that has any attraction for me at all.
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