Thank you for that. I was thinking that would be appropriate $ range,so I am not far off even with the slide issue as gun is very nice/original overall. Serial # is 45xx MR range, by the way
I want to shoot it badly as I have had several M52s and never shot them-tried to once but Ihad some of my wadcutter reloads that I use in revolvers but had left slight lead exposure and they have to be absolutely flush to feed (as most everybody but me knew), and was too lazy/busy to load more at the time.
Thanks again.S&W forum is #1...