Editing Lever-action rifle (section)

==Advantages & Disadvantages==

===Advantages===
*Very cheap, can be bought with starting money;
*Can often be found lying around the map;
*Very accurate;
*Interruptible reload, easy to sustain fire;
*Very high single target damage per shot;
*When wielded, quick taps to grenade button allow you to stack blasts;
*Reliably decapitates specimens with headshots;
*Can lock a [[Scrake]] in a [[Glossary#flinch|mini flinch]] state even off-perked without penalties if accurate on headshots;
*Onperk headshots can [[Glossary#flinch|heavy flinch]] a Scrake at level 4;
*Onperk headshots [[Glossary#stun|stun]] a Scrake at by level 6;
*Fleshpounds have only 25% resistance to its bullets on headshot;
*Stuns a [[Husk]] with a headshot even from off perk;
*Can stun a Stalker or Clot with a bodyshot;
*One-shots a Crawler at any given difficulty.

===Disadvantages===
*Limited fire rate off-perk;
*Slow reload off-perk;
*Contant need of reload in dense chokeholds;
*Require assist fire or bridging weapon switches to maintain damage output against large crowds;
*High recoil and high deviation;
*When emptied, forces two bullets to be reloaded to shoot from hipfire;
*Rather heavy compared to a pistol;
*Missing will get brutally punished by big specimen;
*Stunned specimen will still clog teammates' or behind specimen path;
*Other onperk weapons are rather more suitable when dealing with big targets;
*Shots do not pierce, ineffective against Patriarch's minigun stance;
*Unsuitable for dealing with close up swarms.