What a great end to the story, eh? If it took that treatment to get the safety to move it's likely a bit messy inside and should be dismantled for inspection and cleaning.

Pictures,
 

Tom,

Please post pictures so we can all see your find.:)

Welcome Tom.

This is an outstanding group of folks and a wealth of honest, helpful knowledge and wisdom.

I just received my member package today. Very nice package and Thank you. Larry, I just got a new Mac up and running a few days ago so I was just loading some pictures on it. I can email them to someone if they would post for me as I have never posted pics yet. This new computer is quite mind boggling. I was wondering if the checkering on this gun is factory nor if a research letter would tell of extra checkering on the (cheek)? area of the stock. Thanks again for all the help and the material.
Tom

Tom,

Your welcome to send your pictures to me.

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Pictures from Tom Will.

Stock looks like it's original but the cheek checkering is not. Tom, quite often the cheeks are checkered because the stock has split where it mounts to the receiver. Look closely at the checkering for evidence of a wooden plug.

Great wood!

Chuck, thanks for posting the pictures for me.I only have a hand held magnifying glass but I can't see where there is any kind of repair. There are no cracks that I can see in the stock anywhere. So I guess that someone that owned the gun at some point must have checkered it. Although the coloring of the stock and checkering seem completely uniform throughout the stock. Hopefully I can get over your way or somewhere that some of the Parker guys are shooting for an in hand inspection. Thanks again

We have also seen the entire cheek as a laminate and checkered over - again, to hide a stock head repair. Look closely for differences in the grain of the wood. stock head as compared to cheek piece. Those cheeks do look a bit exaggerated around the aft edges.

I agree with Chuck, the rest of the stock is original and very nice.

I'm glad my suggestion got your safety moving and allowed you to test fire your gun. Continue to follow good advice and take your gun to Darlington or Larry DelGrego and Son for further cleaning and checking. If there is a factory part broken or missing, you may be better off at Del Grego's. The cheek checkering on your gun is more attractive than factory cheek checkering (in some viewers' eyes). Great gun, get it fixed.