1949-1999 50th Anniversary M77 Mark II rifle ???

[chet15]

I do not recall a special M77 Mark II rifle model that was produced for Ruger's 50th Anniversary in 1999. But an avid collector recently found a blue M77 Mark II in .257 Roberts with walnut stock and a floorplate that has Ruger's traditional style floorplate engraving (of later models) with a 50th Anniversary 1949-1999 motif laser engraved and in gold. Anybody else seen a rifle like this?
The kicker is, the gun is serial number 781-94804 and when plugging that into Ruger's serial number lookup page we find it was shipped as a barreled action model 9277. I suspect the gun was put together, the floorplate perhaps coming from Numrich (maybe Ruger sold their one-off pieces parts to Numrich??)

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[douglastwo]

I've not seen a rifle like you described, but I have one of the 1 of 1000 264 win mags made in 1998 for the 50th anniversary. It's a KM77RP M77 Mark II stainless with zytel stock and engraved floorplate serial number 786-67559. I think they were made for GO Sportsmen and AcuSport.

[chet15]

I've not seen a rifle like you described, but I have one of the 1 of 1000 264 win mags made in 1998 for the 50th anniversary. It's a KM77RP M77 Mark II stainless with zytel stock and engraved floorplate serial number 786-67559. I think they were made for GO Sportsmen and AcuSport.

Its not so much the rifle, because the blue .257 in question shows as being shipped as an Action Only.
I'm just curious about an actual 50th Anniversary 1949-1999 M77 Mark II rifle.
The 1 of 1000 guns in .264 are in stainless, but the machine engraving on this blued floorplate appears identical except is with the "1 of 1000" at the bottom.
Chet15