Quantifier range not working in lookbehind

Okay so I'm working on a project where I need a regex that can match a * followed by 1-4 spaces or tabs and then followed by a row of text. Right now I'm using .* after the lookbehind for testing purposes. However I can get it to match explicitly 1, 2, or 4 spaces/tabs but not 1-4. I'm testing against the following block

*    test line here
*   Second test
*  Third test
* Another test

And these are the two patterns I'm testing (?<=(\*[ \t]{3})).* which works just as expected and matches the 2nd line, same if I replace 3 with 1, 2 or 4 however if I replace it with 1,4 forming the following pattern (?<=(\*[ \t]{1,4})).* it no longer matches any of the rows and I honestly can't understand why. I've tried googling without success. I'm using the g(lobal) flag.