I think the RAR has replaced the 77 as Ruger's top seller. My 77 is a real solid rifle with pretty wood and steel and shoots terrifically (after a trigger job, free float of the barrel, glass bedding etc.) it is my favorite rifle but it is after all a tool, a means to an end and not an unfired safe queen investment piece.
The RAR I got this year in 30-06 will be an extra for me and my grandsons first big game rifle. I did have to put one of those Sims vibration rubber grommets on the barrel - not because I wanted to tune it - the barrel was just too light to balance right and hold steady. I shot 2 sub MOA groups today at 100 yards one with 150 grain factory cheapies and one with 180 partitions and the 130's my grandson shoots group just as well.
Ugly and effective is preferable to pretty and finicky for my hunting purposes.
