I own several Parker Reproductions that I shoot regularly. One of my Sporting Clays Classic's has digested tens of thousands of rounds without a lug failure. I've had a serious and keen interest in Parker Repros since the dark ages, the one shown on the PGCA Forum with the failed lug is the first one I've ever heard of in the five decades of owning, shooting and following them.
Wild Skies, you belong to the Parker gun club ''Union'', ask them how many Parker Repro's are falling apart,
and while you are at it, get it documented. As for the the number of Repro's made, all records were destroyed in a hurricane
in 1999. Jack Skeuse,some years later, gave the number of Repro's made by memory. ''NO DOCUMENTS ON IT''
Dirty Harry