458,
Yes, you are probably right in that if I had to do it over I would ask them to just send mine back and get it fixed at my expense. But when I told the woman who called me from Ruger "customer service" that there are at least several videos on Youtube from other owners who had the same problem, and they seem to have fixed those, her response was " You can't give any credibility to Youtube, they also have videos of pythons eating people".
So I told her Ok, send me a brand new gun that you have supposedly worked the kinks out of, and I will get on the various shooting forums I belong to and report my experience with Ruger.
At least this time I will get Alan to make it a free-spinning cylinder.
Edit to add: Have owned quite a few Rugers over the years including a Single Six, Mark I, Security Six, but this is the first one that had to be sent back, although a M77 in 243 did need to get a Shilen barrel before it shot acceptably.
