Without a baseline in just about anything you do you're just taking a "shotgun" approach and will never know the benefit or loss of your efforts. That's QC 101. If you're lucky you won't have taken anything away. Kind of a variant of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". I worked as a Quality Engineer for almost forty years and have an inkling of how to start evaluating a process, and this is a process. If you don't know where you are, how do you know where you want to go? If you got it for Ohio deer hunting, and if it should shoot moa out of the box (probably not with a lever gun), what are you trying to accomplish? I wouldn't criticize those who posted things you don't agree with. There just might be a grain of help in those posts. Hope you get it shooting to your satisfaction. Good luck.