Model 70 upgrades

 Other than tons of practice, a good shooting sling and a good rangefinder should round you out pretty well as far as equipment goes.

 I think the thousand rounds of practice ammo might get you to upgrading your scope, though.

 

That's just exactly my point- you'll need to do a lot of 600-yard target shooting before you'll be able to know that you can consistently hit a deer in the lungs at that distance. I give this same advice every time I hear anyone talking about quarter-mile plus deer "hunting", and it always sounds condescending or preachy, which isn't my intention..  But I don't care as long as you eventually come to realize what it entails before gut-shooting half a dozen deer.

 Friendly advice, glad you are taking it as such, and good luck to you in your quest.

 

As far as my budget goes:  I am currently deployed to Afghanistan (deployment money is great), so I would probably drop about 1K on it.

 

I do like the Nikon 2.5-10x44 Tactical Mil-Dot too, but it comes with a nice pricetag as well.

I am perhaps alone on this, but holdover reticles in second focal plane scopes only work well and easily in marketing videos.

As far as reaching 1000 yards.  I do not think the scope magnification is the limiting factor.  People shoot out to 1000 yards with 10x scopes all the time.

As it happens, 3-9x40 is a good configuration to start with, but I would go with a better scope than Trophy if you can afford it.

Something along the lines of Bushnell Elite 4200, Sightron S2 Big Sky, Vortex Viper or Weaver Grand Slam would fit the bill perfectly:

Any one of these is a major step up from the Trophy scope.

ILya