zombies
Grizzly zombies.
What are you guys going after to need to top off?
If a couple of rounds don't take care of it, you brought the wrong gun.
jim
Why deliberately hamstring the gun with a crappy load method, when you have public domain intellectual property to integrate the loading gate into the receiver?
I think having the load gate near the muzzle is inherently dangerous.
Also, if you actually send 2-3 rounds downrange at something (like a griz, or a zombie, or a pack of griz zombies), it's a good idea to top off. Leaving aside the gun safety issue of putting your hand near the muzzle on a loaded lever gun... that barrel is HOT. And you gotta touch it to manipulate the magazine's spring plunger tube.
I hate that the Marlin 60 shows up on Appleseed lines more often than the Marlin 795. Identical rifles... you can even convert a 60 to a 795 and vice versa. But the tube magazine is an anachronism that needs to die.
Yes, I own two tube guns... a Winchester 94 in .30-30 and the afore mentioned .450... But the box magazine is safer from a drop-perspective, from a handling perspective, from a loading/rate of fire perspective, and from an accuracy potential perspective.