I have one currently and really like it for Indiana deer hunting, I handload and am shooting Hornady 240 gr. XTP bullets over a charge of Winchester 296. Only taken one deer so far, a button buck at 60yds. he was a bang-flop. Accuracy wise I am well satisfied with the 77/44, like the one you're considering mine is a blued wood stock model. The only negative I can think of is the later rifles had horrible triggers but there are aftermarket replacements that are really nice. Both of the 77/44's I have owned have been earlier models and had good triggers, I put an aftermarket trigger in my BIL's later modes and it was a vast improvement over what the rifle left the Ruger factory with.
Is the rifle fairly light? I have been trying to find specs for the wood stock ones, am only seeing the synthetic stock ones at 5.5 pounds.
