Straight grain, no dark lines, no feather, no gold.
Just medium brown all the way.
There's a 7 mag M77 like that at my LGS as well, grain lines even lighter..........looks almost like freakin' cinnamon stained balsa.
Have seen many a 77 like that, #3's and 10/22s. Quite a few black pad #1's.
Even my dad's '66 fingergroove auto is pretty plain.
My '67 10/22 fingergroove is darker, stronger grain line than the .44..........nothing great though (except it's factory checkered).
Red pad #1 is best chance at good wood..........the older the better. Pop's B is OK (first version). My old B was pretty good too, enough that I recognized it from a distance at a shop yrs after I sold it.
My RSI is a red pad.............boring as heck.
But then if I deer hunt it I won't feel so bad about adding character to it.
Ruger wood, on avg..........aint nothin to get excited about. Seen a bunch of them over the years. My cuz's 77 was equally bland.
I did have a tiger striped gold walnut BDL that was downright handsome (non skipline checkered- better looking). My 7 mag was skiplined and boring. Most horrible my bud's .35 Whelen Classic.
Did have another BDL that had light on the bottom, and a bit of dip in grain..........the coloration and line made it rather attractive.
Hell, nowadays most of my stuff is plastic and painted.
I let a '77 B model slide b y on GB a few yrs back. It had nice wood. Been haunting me ever since (would have been a chuck rig only so minimal risk of dinging up).
Oh well.