XL: Let me get this straight: your old 10/22 shoots better than your new 10/22 (marginally, I guess?). So, they shipped you a new receiver, you installed the barrel into it, buttoned it all up, and then it still shot better than your new one?
If that is the case, it seems to reflect what I've read and heard: the accuracy of the 10/22 and 22 rifles in general depend on how the chamber is cut, and the accuracy of the rifle depends on the luck of the draw, regarding the condition of the chamber reamer on the assembly line.
I think that this also speaks very well of Ruger's system of retaining the barrel with V blocks. In many guns (the SKS, for instance), there are versions with the barrels shrink-fitted and pinned to the receiver and ones where the barrel is threaded. Most of us gun nuts prefer or even demand the threaded barrel, feeling that there is something inherently less capable with a press/pinned/clamped barrel to receiver system.
At least the way Ruger does it, this is apparently not the case at all!
Would that be how you interpret your experience?
Regarding:
Guess what? He's whining that they didn't re-anodize his old parts and send them back to him. Foreget that they haven't used anodizing on their 10/22 parts for over 30 years. I swear some people here have become so entitlement minded that they will whine and cry even when someone does something nice for them, for free.
Here is what I've learned from working in retail (an experience that I did not care for at all, but a paycheck is a paycheck regardless of the size and whether one likes the work or not):
Rich or poor, fat or thin, short or tall, man or woman, there are LOTS of people one encounters in retail that have this attitude. There is no way one can categorize them as certain kinds of people. On this point, my Wife's and my experiences agree (she is still working in retail because she likes keeping busy).
Frankly, I am not at all surprised, as I have run into so many of these people while working in a store that they became an un-noteworthy event. The "load" of dealing with this sort on a regular basis is something I found somewhat cumulative, and now I'm a lot less judgmental when I get a brusque salesperson in a store. I know they may well have gotten one of these types one minute before I came to the counter.
My solution to this is that, when I become King of the United States, I will get that electrician and his generator/trailer over here that was discussed in the rhinoceros thread recently, and these whiners will be given a prompt treatment. Depending on the degree of their whining, we shall start at 250 volts and go up from there.