wyo: good news, re: parker reassembly. now comes the critical part. once you get your gun back together, it is most important for your personal safety, that you test fire it with heavy field loads to insure that the receiver metal has been correctly re tempered. if not, the receiver may be as brittle as glass and may in fact blow up in your hands like a letter bomb. the old tried and true method of test firing a questionable firearm is to tie it securely to an old tire. then, attach a 50 foot or so lanyard to the trigger; get behind a barrier such as a tree or stone wall and then, touch her off a few times and see what happens...good luck and of course let us all know what happens...
