444 Marlin is a BEAST - First Shots and Sighting In 

My first time at the range with a 444 Marlin!!! This thing has some boogie!!! My knife Schrade TRUIX alnk.to/9T8yeFO

My first rifle was a Marlin .444, I got it for Christmas 1980. I took my first Deer and Moose with it, and I've still got that rifle.😊

First rifle i ever shot at 8 years old. Was sitting Indian style, (legs crossed), opened eyes after firing and was looking at the sky, kept the rifle in my hands though lol.

That's a Bigfoot cartridge! You know what you have to do now Who Tee, the clay block comparison test between the .444 and the .45/70!

I have had my 444 scout for about 4 years, and I love it. Mine has a Leupold Freedom 3x9x40 scope on it. I have used mine for hog and deer with great results. Since most 44 bullets are made for 44 mag handgun velocities, I have found they often over expand or break apart in game when used in the 444. I now make my own core bonded bullets on a Corbin bullet swage press. I use a harder lead and a thicker jacket than most factory bullets. Mine expand, but so far, they have not broken apart. Enjoy your scout!.

I have two .444’s. A Marlin 444-P and a Handi Rifle. For all practical purposes, the .444 is too much gun for white tail. However, due to the straight wall cartridge regulations that we have here in Ohio, the .444 has become one of favorite calibers. My preferred cartridge is the Hornady 265 gr. flat point. Unfortunately, the flat point is getting phased out in favor of the FTX. If you ever find the flat point ammunition on your dealer’s shelf, stock up. You will not regret it. The Hornady 265 gr flat point features a thicker copper jacket in comparison to typical .429 caliber bullets specifically designed to handle the additional velocity featured by the .444. Comparing the .444 to the .45-70, the .444 traditionally features a lighter bullet traveling at a higher velocity. Meanwhile, the .45-70 offers heavier bullets and a larger caliber at the expense of a little velocity. There is not much real world difference inside 150 yards. Enjoy your .444 and best of luck to all this hunting season.

These cva scouts are the must underrated rifles on the market. Great price, compact size for the barrel length, and fantastic triggers 💪

The good old .444 Marlin. Most definitely a 'cannon'!

Just acquired a marlin lever gun in 444 marlin, very excited to see some new content on the capabilities of this cartridge!

Love my CVA in 444 marlin. Then I bought a Marlin in 444. Magical gun. Love my lever guns

Welcome to the 444 club. Mine is an old H&R Handi-Rifle that I won at a QDMA dinner. I love that little gun and it is a great pig getter for sure.

For a very short time in the early 90's I had a Marlin 1895 in 444 Marlin. Sold it to get a pair of Sig P220's. I think that round could stop a train. Never had a problem with brush and tree limbs when hunting in central Alabama. If I didn't already have a Marlin 336 in 35 Remington, I might consider buying another one. Thanks, as always WTW, the video was great.

Always nice to buy our self a birthday present, that way we always get what we want. I do the same thing.😉

I hunt during Primitive Weapons Season in the swamps of Louisiana with the 444 Marlin Hornady “Red Tips”. We call em “lipstick” bullets cause they look like a lady’s lipstick but don’t let them fool you, they will go thru all kinds of brush and still kill a big ole hog! Beast of a round!

I have several Marlin lever action 444’s. Love them stubborn mules , they kick like one. Watched this couple days ago , ordered mine , should be in by the week end. Also bought a cva 35 whelen last year after watching you videos on it Keep up the good work Thanks

I have had a marlin 444 since the 70,s and its quite the thumper. I have taken deer,bear,and elk with it.

This is going to be great, love watching your videos.

2023 deer season for me was the year of the single shot. First gun was the gun your using with a Zero 240g. hp reload. 2nd was a cva 35 whelen and the third was a new england 243 win. 3 shots 3 kills.

Love the .444 I have it in Marlin lever

Happy Birthday, Adam. Many years ago, a good friend of mine took a black bear at about 20 feet with his 444 Marlin. No questions as to its authority.

Happy birthday Adam. It’s great that you could give that bing-bang a happy home! 👍🏼

Nice rifle! 444 was my dad's favorite deer rifle.

Great shooting Hootey. Awesome calibre and your rig shoots like a tackholer! Thanks for sharing 🙏

That’s some power, very accurate for such a powerful cartridge!

Got to love a Marlin ❤ And woo 444!

i remember 30yrs ago, JD jones called the 444 marlin a "sledge hamer" for deer.. groups very good!

Nice one who Tee. I always like the single shot. Thanks much, stay safe and healthy!

The 444 Marlin is the first rifle i had gotten, my uncle gave it to me was I was 14 years old. I have shoot my first deer with it and so many more. I still have the rifle and I reload my ammo for it and I can hold a super tight group with it at 100 yards. I love that rifle and will never get rid of it. Oh yeah it is a Marlin lever action with a 3x9 lepold scope. hope you enjoy yours and will make lots of memories with it.

Very cool gun. Plenty of power! Pretty darn accurate!

Sold mine 23 yrs ago. Nothing to kill around here. So many people couldn't shoot it more than once. I loved it but not the cost. Hits like no other !

Color me old and odd. Probably about the age of 12 or 13 (1972 - 1973) I caught the interest of firearms and hunting. I landed on the Marlin Model 444 and thought that was the game getter for me. Fast forward to ???? and at a SHOT Show Winchester offered a 94 chambered in .444 Marlin. End of year company bonus afforded me the wherewithal to purchase a Winchester Black Shadow Big Bore AE chambered in .444 Marlin. Only wish Marlin (yes, owned by Ruger) would reintroduce the Marlin 444. In a heartbeat.

Happy Birthday. I’ve been wanting one of these as well.

I have one since 1996 love it good kick

Haven't been able to find any 444 ammo in stores in quite a while but they aren't hard to find online at a fairly decent price ammoseek is very helpful

So glad someone besides me likes it.

I bought a lever gun from Marlin .444 Marlon. I was 20. Shot a dear. It jumped up 3 feet's...lol went 2 steps life was over for that baby. I also took it on a bear hunt. Black bear about 350 lbs one shot. It went out with me one more time, my friend was going to kill a Grizzly with a knife. (Ik stupid but I wouldn't) I was back up in case he got in trouble and he immediately got in trouble and fell on the ground and I had to take a shot add him the bear that is i hit the bear bad spot we tracked the Grizzly for hours. It bleed out. But he claimed he killed it by knife and all our friends were impressed. Me I stayed silent because he paid for my complete trip, all expenses. Then later on that year he took me to south Texas for a Russian red boar hunt. All paid for by him. Nice to have dumb friends. But you will love that gun. Idk if they make a lever gun any more. I paid $225 for that gun. Still have it today. Beautiful gun.

Make sure your scope is rated for high recoil! I have the same gun, it ate the reticles out of 2 scopes before I shelled out the dough for a good scope! Also, the 444 Marlin has much better ballistics than 45-70 if you look at 200-300 yards!

Well, that's getting up in caliber! Big jump from the last few months, lol. Looks like another fun one, WTW!! Have a great weekend, sir.

Living here in Florida I very rarely get a shot over 100 yards. The furthest I get to shoot on my property is 250 yards. Most of my scopes are 3x9 great video as always

I’ve got one in the handi rifle and let me tell you, it pokes some big effective holes in a whitetail. All I’ve ever used is the leverevolution and it works very well. Sometimes I take it for a walk even when it’s not “primitive” season because it works so well.

I owned a Marlin lever-action .444 Marlin in the '70s and '80s. Loved the beast. Sadly, it was stolen by the mover driver when I moved across country (long story, I had to move in a hurry for my job and my wife was snookered by the driver who told her that all firearms had to travel in the cab.) FBI, ATF, and law enforcement at both ends were totally unconcerned.

Love it! I have a pre safety Marlin in .444 it will make a whitetail take a seat

Was waiting for this. Ps you have a good birthday.

The 444 Marlin had a lot to do with me getting into reloading when I was 15 in the mid '80's. Dad bought me a Marlin lever action 444 for Christmas that year and laughed at me the first time I shot it 'cause it nearly jumped outa my hands! The Remington 240 factory load did not do the best in that gun. It wasn't very accurate and it would jam when feeding because of the bullet nose being so wide. I handloaded the Hornady 265 gr and it shot much better and fed flawlessly and really pole axed the deer - it was like a piano fell on them. I also loaded the Hornady XTP 300 gr hollow point and it shot and functioned very well despite the slow rifling twist but I never ended up hunting with it - I think it would have been awesome.

I have a marlin 444s, original JM model. Love the rifle. The hornady cartridges are not a pistol bullet. They also have an interlock flat point at 265 grains. It's a superformance load moving 2400 fps. Cheers and enjoy

Ah maannn! Now I’m wanting a 444 Marlin Marlin!

Sternum crusher, great video and a great birthday gift to yourself

Great group!

Love the .444 !!!!

I've known a few hunters that hunter with Marlin 336 lever guns in 444 Marlin and they all have said that in anchors deer very quickly on shots out to 125yrds and is deadly out past 200yds with proper ammo and placement

I have one in a marlin 336. love it.

Looks fun!!! Big boy toy!!!

Great cartridge I have two marlins in it in factory loads I think the 444 outdoes the 45 70. I have had great results with the hornady 240gr xtps pass through on broad side hits. Darren

Love mine its a beast.

That's a big'un. Cool stuff! 😀

Pretty rifle!!!

Great cartridge 🎉

Used to own a Marlin lever action in .444! Yup,what a thumper. Would roll me onto my back when sitting on the ground to sight it in.

Seems all your CVA rifles are super accurate. Awesome for the price, wish we could get them here in Botswana 🇧🇼.

Awesome group for a big bore mate Cheers Rob

Nice. Been looking at these in 4570

Always great videos.

Dang, that 444 folded my shoulder blades together just lookin' at it!

I bought a cva derringer in the late '70's. It was a lot of fun until the sear failed and shot a ball into my leg. The sear was made of brass and soft as butter. The replacement from cva was worse, lasting a few shots before failure. Wishing you good luck with your cva scout and I sincerely hope cva improved it's QC and internal parts. Love your content!

Another Great Video Adam 💯 , Thanks for Sharing 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

I have been hunting Iowa whitetails with a Scout in 444 with a Bushnell 3-9x40 since 2017. Definitely loud, I need to add a can to mine. I prefer the Hornady LE round to all other factory loads I have tried so far.

I have the 45-70 and 243. Both are taking drivers. I role my own for both. The 45-70 with 250 Hornady ftx over a big load of a1680 will get those 444 velocities and even better.

That sure is a cool rifle, I know how much you enjoy those CVA rifles!❤❤❤

Silencerco or gunbroker should have the adapter you need, ran into similar issues with a Chiappa 44mag lever action a couple years ago.

Greavt info , THANKS

Pretty cool 🇺🇸👍

Man I'm telling you that thing is really righteous

Have had the exact gun for about ten years now at least one deer per year never had to go look for it they drop where you hir them at least in my experience out to 220yrd

I like it! Wouldn't move that scope at all. Inch high at 100 is perfect for it.

Sweet Rifle. Very Accurate

I got my Dad one a few years ago cause off and on through the years he mentioned the idea of having one. CVA was the cheapest route however, got the non muzzle brake one, and that thing with Hornady leverevolutions will rock ya lol.

Enjoy the video as always love CVA rifles never owned a 444 but had a friend that did and it was devastating on deer with hand loads

it is a very under rated bullet,,,,,,taken several deer with it back in the 80s,,,,,,,,,, marlin rifle,,,,,,,,,,,

I've been waking up in the morning for several days at exactly 4:44. I think it's a sign that I need to add something to my firearms stable.

I’ve got a CVA scout in 35-Whelen and it can blow a huge hole in a white so I can’t even imagine what that one does but can’t wait to see

Man that looked like alot of fun! I'm impressed with that group, just gotta remember that hammer!

Nice, good for a deer with that pattern

I've had mine in the marlin 444 for 26 years. It hammers deer in the heavy cover. I load the hornady XTP 240 gr. Hollow point and it drops them in their tracks so they don't run onto neighbors farm. Made some exit holes you can stick your fist in. Lol

When I bought my Marlin .444, I could have chosen the 45-70 as well. In TODAY's crazy world, I can't find .444 Marlin ammo locally but can buy 45-70 ammo and at cheaper prices than the .444 Marlin costs (IF I could find some). I still remember the Remington catalog presentation when they rolled out their .444 Marlin rifle and fell in love with it. Again, in today's crazy world of sky high gun costs and low availability of even sky high ammo costs I will keep my .444 Marlin but if money were no object, I would buy a 45-70 just so I could have something in this range to shoot on a regular basis.

Cool!

444 marlin ❤❤❤

My understanding is that the 45-70 was all but dead in the early 60s so Marlin developed the 444 as a replacement. They basically stretched the 44magnum case by 1 inch to get the 444. If this is incorrect, please correct me.

Good group

Ya that's dialed in !

👍💯😊

The 444 is a kick-ass caliber, one of my favorites for serious thumping of stuff. You should try the Hornady load with the InterLock boolit. Next birthday, you should get a matching BFR revolver in 444 from Magnum Research!

That's four of the scouts I have seen you shoot, every one so far are deadly accurate. Even the pistol.

444 Marlin lever action rifle are great elk rifle.

i have both a 444 and 4570. both are lever action marlins, i call them the twins. they are original with jm on barrels, my cva scout is a 350 legend

Clay block Test! .444 vs 45-70! Nice rifle!

Nice rifle and accurate too. The 444 really needs a good 300 grain bullet but the twist rate on most rifles can't stabilize it so accuracy suffers. Maybe the Scout is different because it is so accurate with the ammo you used. Reloading with a 300 grain bullet might be worth a try. Thanks for another excellent video.

My cousin uses a 444 for deer hunting up here in South Dakota

Nice round 💪

I just bought a cva scout 444. Hope it shoots as good as your's! The 444, 265gr should out perform 325gr 45-70 standard loads. 45-70 +p loads run about 300fps faster than standard loads, so they are a step up. Either should put a stomping on a Whitetail buck. Keep up the good work on your videos.

I like that.