in my experience there is no ugly when it comes to the M77. compared to a walmart shelf remington nodel 700 they are a little spendy averaging $650-750 but they don't have the neglegent discharge problems of the rem 700s, the QC issues of a winchester mod 70 and the poor aftermarket availability of savages.
they are plenty accurate, well weighted, pretty loyal Mauser derivatives, strong actions and I love them. all of my brothers and I grew up hunting with remington 700s and they were much better than the crap remington cranks out nowadays. the rems hardly ever leave the safes anymore, I own a ruger M77 MKII in 30-06 that is a tack driver, easily MOA with good ammo and a better person behind the trigger. my older brother has M77s in 357 mag, 223, 7.62x39mm, and a MKII in 7mm rem mag.
needless to say his opinion of them is quite high as well.
