My Marlin 444 with a 22 inch barrel, with a 1.5 x 4.5 shotgun scope on top sure worked pretty darn well in my years hunting in Northern MN swamps, in temps as low as 30 below zero.... sometimes It didn't matter which side of a sapling the deer might be on...


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