Thanks lads,the parker hale looks nothing like yours uk roe hunter,your rifle looks like someone looks after it and its ten times better than i one i went to see,the gunsmith rang me yesterday to tell me he found the problem with the parker hale,it was the spring in the bolt,he said it was worn and he had to order one before i could get a second look at it,he said it might take a week or so for it to arrive,as for the CZ.223 i was really impressed with it,i found it easy to handle and not that much recoil either,and it was new aswell,now as uk roe hunter said,the parker hale went out of production in the early 80,s so this rifle could be nearly 30 years old,a friend of mine told me that the gunsmith has that parker hale a long time and found it very hard to sell,