I am most happy we can obtain lever guns from at least five manufacturers. It is comforting if ya happen to enjoy levers. I realize this is a Rossi enthusiast site and this is a Rossi lever love-fest thread, but some comments are warranted. I use examples from Rossi, Marlin, Browning, Winchester and Miroku/Winchester.
I am not jingoistic but I do enjoy Winchesters - good solid John Browning designs. New Haven Winchesters have some highs and lows in manufacture, depending upon era. Hunted for years with a 1980 era model 94 .30-30, despite it having a sintered metal receiver that resists touch up bluing.
I believe in the quip that one gets as much gun as they are willing to pay for it, generally. I must say that the Miroku Winchester levers exhibit a very high level of machining, bluing and fit & finish - inside and out. Stocks and forearms are of nice walnut. Butt plates are precisely fitted. I would speculate the manufacture is to a higher level than New Haven Winchesters. The actions are smooth, feeding is reliable from the get go, don't need to get an aftermarket CD to get the lever to function properly. Miroku/Winchesters are good to go the moment ya remove them from the box. Yeah, they cost more than a Rossi R92, but a quick search of sales tells me the margin in pricing between a Rossi and a Miroku/Winchester is getting smaller. The overall quality, reliability and accuracy of the recent Miroku/Winchester 1892's cannot be dismissed. I will add that the Miroku/Winchester 1892 can sure hunt and it is not babied.
I do not get any more strident over the rebounding hammers and tang safety on the Miroku/Winchesters I do over the bolt mounted safety on the Rossi R92. The latter, however, can be disguised with an aftermarket plug, but the bump is still there.
The Miroku/Winchesters are not just Japanese made copies that are permitted to roll-mark the barrels, "Winchester". These arms, along with those marked Brownings are manufactured specifically for Winchester and Browning. It's just like the famous Weatherby's being produced by Howa for Weatherby or earlier Browning arms made by FN. They are all fine arms.
I am not a collector, but I most certainly appreciate a finely made working lever gun.
I use a 70's era Marlin 1894 that once was one stubborn sunuvagun to make run reliably, especially with semi wadcutters and .44 spl. I finally turned into a smooth operator by replacing the cartridge elevator with a current production version.
A Rossi in .45 Colt came my way and it was not even broken in. It was not a smooth operating action at the start, but it now feeds cast SWC if you vigorously snap the lever open. I didn't get the CD, but a few hundred rounds has smoothed things out considerably. It is not the true rendition of a Winchester 1892 either - just examine the contour of the receiver to know that. There is that bolt mounted top safety to deal with that's not part of the original 1892 design. The machining of some of interior surfaces is crude. The steel butt plate appears to have been bent or hammered into final shape and fit. it seems all appropriate, I suppose, to its price point. Getting past all that, the arm does now shoot well. I don't knock the results.
I don't have direct experience with either the Uberti's or Henry''s.
It is a little sad that the Lever Action Carbine is an American developed phenomenon, yet other than Henry, none of the classic 1873's, 1886's, 1892's, 1895's etc. are manufactured domestically, but that's life - at least we can still obtain renditions from other countries.