I love my Marlin 336 30/30. It had a 4X scope on it when I got it for xmas at 15 yrs. old and this past year I took the scope off and had new open sites put back on. I never did like it with a scope on it since the gun is so short that it was hard to shoot free standing. With open sites though it feels right. Its amazing how accurate those things are with open sites. I am conteplating picking one up in .44 this next year.