Just saw the photos of you M-77 TS 458 WM. Quite a piece of wood you have there! To my untrained eye it certainly seems like Circassian, with the grain pattern very reminiscent of the Ruger RSMs.
My TS 458 has a totally unremarkable, plain but straight-grained and dense light stock. Its DOM is 1978 and it too has a steel floor plate. These are nice rifles. My biggest peeve is magazine length set at 3.340”. My rifle’s ramp configuration is unfriendly to FP monolithic, so I feed it Barnes RN 500 grain solids when the situation calls for it. However I prefer to shoot Berry plated RN 350s in this one and reserve the FP Solids for the Hawkeye.
Very nice rifle you’ve acquired to launch your Square Table quest. Kudos, Brother Knight. I’ll leave the formal welcome to Sir Ron.
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty of give me death! P. Henry
