Neat looking rifle. Always fun to play with an accurate .22.
I don't know a lot about 52's,,,You mention it being from a a 'B' series. Did that require the bbl set back? Or perhaps just done to get a new chamber and clean rifling in an otherwise used bbl.
I've got an early 52 around too that was destined for sporterdom but as of yet hasn't achieved it. Someone made a speed-lock out of the early style. Wish they had left it alone.
If you want a sporter,,I'd go for it. No matter what 52 target you buy for the project, you'll just be buying it for the action anyway, unless the original bbl is to serve as a blank to be turned to sporter. Then you can count that as part of it too.
I don't recognize the engraver. But the little (wriggle) cut in the last curl of each scroll as a shading cut is vagely familiar. I can't place it with anyone specific,,and little things like that get copied from one engraver to the next. Especially teacher to student.
