Merry Christmas to me...

[Armybrat]

.... my first Ruger Bearcat. This tiny new Shopkeeper .22 caught my eye & wallet.

[Bawanna]

Very nice, I almost brought one home last month from the gun show but alas I left it behind. They are nice little guns.

[Armybrat]

CDNN Sports out of Abilene, Texas had them for $379.95 for a couple of weeks, then raised the price to $399.95 after I ordered mine. Still a bargain, as the stainless ones are $130 more.

[ltxi]

I bought one in stanless sometime this past year. Did not know Ruger was producing a birdshead model until I stumbled across one at a gun show. I'd always liked and wanted a Bearcat but the plow handle version just never worked for me. Birdshead fits/suits me perfectly. Ecstatic about this .22 I am.

[gb6491]

.... my first Ruger Bearcat. This tiny new Shopkeeper .22 caught my eye & wallet.

I bought one in stanless sometime this past year. Did not know Ruger was producing a birdshead model until I stumbled across one at a gun show. I'd always liked and wanted a Bearcat but the plow handle version just never worked for me. Birdshead fits/suits me perfectly. Ecstatic about this .22 I am.

Congrats to you both on acquiring Shopkeeper Bearcats (smoking deal on yours Armybrat ).
I have a stainless one and have been very pleased with it. It carries nicely in a little cross draw rig. Enjoy them folks!
Regards,
Greg

[CPTKILLER]

Ruger Single Seven in .327 Federal Magnum

This is my small ranch carry pistol for varmints in Central Texas.

[Armybrat]

That is a cool carry rig you have there, not to mention the Single Seven. For a Texas A&M Aggie, you have excellent taste! {wink}

So do some of us sips....



Better cover your eyes for this one.... lol

[Armybrat]

On the Bearcat Shopkeepers, I notice there are two major differences between the stainless & blued versions. Stainless has the unfluted & "engraved" cylinder and a 3" barrel, while the blue comes with the fluted cylinder and a 3.5" tube.

The ejector rod head on mine is "open" shaped like a comma so it can slide all the way down over the cylinder pin to the frame. I guess to have better empty ejection efficiency. Do those with the stainless versions have any problem with ejecting empty shells?

Also, it would be interesting & definitely tempting if Ruger would make these Bearcats in .22 Magnum. My tiny North American is a bit of a Mini- handful to shoot.

Bought this nice pig-lined holster at Texas Jack's in Fredericksburg 3 weeks ago for the Single Seven (It was made by El Paso Saddlery to fit the small frame Uberti/Cimarron Lightning .38), but proved to be slightly too small. However it fits the Bearcat perfectly and does not have to be returned:

[dustnchips]

@arnybrat. A fellow told me that 22mag is useless in a pistol length barrel since it produces no more power than a long rifle. Don't know if its true since I never cared enough to check it out.

[Bobshouse]

@arnybrat. A fellow told me that 22mag is useless in a pistol length barrel since it produces no more power than a long rifle. Don't know if its true since I never cared enough to check it out.

I've talked with several who have said that until they shot one. They are wrong. I've shot many over my chronograph and they are at least twice as fast as a .22 out of my S&W 6 inch model 48.

They even have a nice little kick to'em.

[Bawanna]

I have a Ruger convertible and I agree with Bob. Night and day. Stuff hit with the 22 mag knows it's been hit good.

It's kind of fun to slip in the mag cylinder once in awhile to liven things up. I don't have a chrono or none of that scientific stuff but there's no doubt it's pushing considerable harder and faster.

[CM9]

Nice lookin bearcats. My wife always gets kinda teary eyed when she sees one. She got the one her Dad had when he passed over. We lost it when we lost our house to a fire back in 1978. She loved to shoot the little rascal.

[Bawanna]

Seems like we ought to see about getting her another one. Maybe we can take up a collection, keep our eyes peeled for just the right one.

Stainless or blue, birdshead?

[ltxi]

[QUOTE=Armybrat;403222]On the Bearcat Shopkeepers, I notice there are two major differences between the stainless & blued versions. Stainless has the unfluted & "engraved" cylinder and a 3" barrel, while the blue comes with the fluted cylinder and a 3.5" tube.

The ejector rod head on mine is "open" shaped like a comma so it can slide all the way down over the cylinder pin to the frame. I guess to have better empty ejection efficiency. Do those with the stainless versions have any problem with ejecting empty shells?

Also, it would be interesting & definitely tempting if Ruger would make these Bearcats in .22 Magnum. My tiny North American is a bit of a Mini- handful to shoot.

Bought this nice pig-lined holster at Texas Jack's in Fredericksburg 3 weeks ago for the Single Seven (It was made by El Paso Saddlery to fit the small frame Uberti/Cimarron Lightning .38), but proved to be slightly too small. However it fits the Bearcat perfectly and does not have to be returned:

/QUOTE]

I've no issue/problem with full ejection. And the shorter barrel a big reason I got the stainless.

[ltxi]

@arnybrat. A fellow told me that 22mag is useless in a pistol length barrel since it produces no more power than a long rifle. Don't know if its true since I never cared enough to check it out.

That's utter nonsense. In any barrel length, including my 1 5/8 inch NAA Mini, .22 Mag the is the more power effective cartridge.