Mikemyers, Admittedly I don’t have a 52 but I found your adding weight to the barrel to damp the barrel’s movement interesting. I learned to shoot with black powder guns back in the 1970s and heavy barrels are used on BP guns for exactly the reason you added the weight to your 52-to damp barrel movement during ignition. A BP gun’s ignition process is decidedly slower than a centerfire gun, even with the fastest BP lock-time, so a heavy barrel is more likely to stay on the point of aim longer during the ignition process due to inertia. Frankly, to this day I prefer heavy barreled handguns like 10-8s, GP100s, and 686s to pencil or taper barreled handguns like 10-5s. The same with rifles.