Hard to beat a Parker Trojan for a great field gun- inspite of the few flaws you noted, there is always one basic truism in owning/shooting a Parker Trojan- Can't be "upgraded" and passed off as a higher grade Parker, as I have seen done with some Vulcan grades- What gauge, chokes and barrel specs??
A new scope for a M70 pre-64 in .220 Swift? Delivered by the "Little Brown Santa Claus"- aka- UPS driver perhaps?? Sounds good. What make and series scope and mounts are you using on this 500 yard range "Gopher grinder"?
I love to snipe prairie doggies and woodchucks- I have a "hybrid" Winnie .220 Swift-my late father also loved that type of rifle shooting, and in 1935 he bought a M54 SuperGrade in that great 4000 fps. Mach whatever caliber- After it came to me I rebuilt it to a 1940 style bolt, release and safety- Thanks to Maynard Buehler, installed a Timney trigger and replace the sheet metal trigger guard and floor plate with a Blackburn forged series- No drop down floor plate of course, but this M54-70 "dinger" is basically a single shot bolt action, of course I can eject unfired rounds by cycling the bolt too- I have a 4x14x44 Vari-X 111 leupold on it now, Dad had an older Stith 12x with the spring adjustment bases- barrel and throat are as new, 26" stainless barrel- if I had a $1 for every round through that old Winnie since Dad bought it, I would have Warren Buffett listening to me on occasion.
Sorry about the bladder and knee business- one of my good friends from our Hunt Club is a spry 81- shoots either Over-under or M21, and has had a reoccurance of prostate cancer- treatable, but that radiation process is no picnic- can't put a price tag on good health and good vision, even if you aren't an avid shotgunner as I am-- priceless
I'll pass on the Famous grouse (or infamous when you miss one in the thick stuff and he roars away like a F-16 with Chuck Yeager as the pilot)-- but Yukon Jack and Tullamore Dew are the winter's fireside sippin' choices- always think about Yukon poet Robert W. Service and writer Jack london when I look over the bottle's label-- "Oh I have clinched and closed with the naked North, I've learned to defy and defend-- Shoulder to shoulder we have fought it out, but the North must win in the end"--
