Lever action 444 Marlin... for woods hunting, both still hunting and ground blind, the area i hunt is quite active in bow season, but deer mostly nocturnal when gun season comes around, so need a bright optic for first and last light...

I've got a 2-7 leupold on mine. No complaints

sent pm of 1 I have I'll sell, scout scope

You need a bright optic and you need to be able to see the reticle. That spells illuminated for those first and last legal minutes of shooting.

Same

Look here

Doug at CL has something in the 1-4 range

https://cameralandny.com/shop/tags/...0134-d8f9-00163e9110c0?variation=1439283

That could work

I’d run a quality fixed 4x on it and rule the world.

I have K4's on each one

No problems (yet)
They're more than adequate for the
legal shooting hours here.

2nd one I had after stupidly letting the
1st one go away had a low power variable.
Don't remember what kind, but it didn't
make a hundred rounds before the rattle-rattle
came about. I bought 2 K4's ,and the 3rd one
got one of them when it came home

Good Luck with whatever you find

I've got a Burris 1 3/4-5x on mine. I sent it back to Burris and had a heavy duplex installed.

The Japan made Weaver 1x3 is a nice scope. Have 2 on 10-22,s

I agree. I just mounted one up on a 17 HMR when I robbed the scope off it for another rifle. It's a neat little scope.

I too have a 2x7 on mine

I bought a couple of Holosun HS510c on Black Friday... I am loving them so far.

Wish'd Weaver still made 'em.....great scopes for the money

This one on my Marlin 45 Colt

VX2 2x7 here also

Trijicon TR-24 1-4x.

Leupold 2-7 heavy duplex or German #4 hard to beat.

Really like the color case hardening. Never seen one like that before

My Marlins have Leupold Shotgun 2-7x33 with heavy duplex scopes on them.

thats all ya need

Brought it to Doug Turnbull and had him do it hes 45 minutes away from me

Man dats nice !

Bushnell 1.5 x 4.5. shotgun scope.. with a circle X reticle...

My .45-70 Guide Gun has had a 1-4 Leupold shotgun/muzzleloader scope with coarse duplex crosswire and 75 yard parallax-free setting since it was new (probably more than 25 years. It’s held up to hundreds of hotrod 400 grain loads and killed a truckload of deer. Small profile, doesn’t disrupt the handling qualities of a lever action rifle. In my opinion and experience it’s the ideal scope for a powerful lever gun.

+1. I had a Marlin 444P with an IOR 4X. Perfect for me for the woods hunting I did.

I agree. a good 4X and you'd have a perfect scope for that gun and caliber.

I'd go 2x7.

We have antler point restrictions to deal with.
I need XXXs to sort points from brush, binos waste valuable time.

He does great work for sure. Congrats for a great looking rifle.