I wonder if that dog's head buttplate might not be original to the gun...?

Remington didn't necessarily follow every detail of Parker Bros. protocol when building their Parkers.

Does anyone else have a Remington Trojan with a dog's head buttplate I wonder?

We discussed this here before and I was told that it was common to pencil or mark the last couple numbers of the gun on the inside of the butt plate. I pulled the plate and there was nothing but it was not shiny new. LOP is 14" to front trigger so it does not appear that the gun has been shortened. Fit of the plate is very nice. Gun seems to fit and length is good so I may not need a pad. Will shoot it first. I can always put a trojan plate on it as there seem to be some originals pop up and I can get a repo if I want.