I like the frontier pads (Dean Romig's suggestion). Wrap them around a 16 or so gauge brush and scrub the bores with a cleaning oil. Does wonders.
You might want to remeasure your barrels. The book shows it as a 32" barrel, so certainly not cut but a 32-3/4" length seems really odd for a Parker. Check to see if you mis-measured.
Final comment is that from the appearance of the bottom plate screw, I am confident that the gun has never been apart. That can be good and bad. I bought a gun of somewhat the same vintage and it looked in very good shape, but after working on it two weeks; nothing. The top tang screw would simply not come out. And I work on a lot of guns and have had two good gunsmiths over the years show me a lot of tricks. I had drill the screw head out, drop the trigger plate, soak for another week and clamp on with vice grips on the shank and finally backed it out. Be careful working on it.
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