Glad it was resolved.
I was going to say that the condition you were experiencing seemed, from your description, to be what S&W calls "throw-by", where the cylinder stop doesn't engage in a cylinder stop notch and stop the cylinder during its rotation.
If the cylinder stop drops down below the level of the frame and becomes trapped by the frame, or for some other reason isn't rising up and properly engaging a cylinder stop notch (fitting, burrs, defective/worn part, spring problem, heavy fouling/debris in parts, etc.), the cylinder can continue to spin until loss of momentum occurs.
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