Ruger is very set on how they are going to do things. They have been screwing in the barrels on their revolvers too tight for decades so that you have to lap/firelap them for best accuracy. Smith somehow managed to stop pinning their barrels without incurring a similar problem. I would have thought they could have elevated the sales price to do whatever was necessary to make the Red Labels dependable and still sold a bunch, but they were bound and determined to do it for 'X' price or nothing.