Tyler Gun Works improved Bearcat

[Scott Tschirhart]

This is a sweet little shooter. Nice trigger, slick action and I can see the front sight.

[GunnyMack]

I've always wanted a Bearcat, just never got around to getting one.
Come with 2 cylinders?

[Lastmohecken]

Look's Great!
So, I take it that you had the cylinder bored out for 22mag, or did you get a second cylinder made?
And I think you had the front sight serrated to eliminate glare?
And you had an action job?

I own a plain blued standard version, and it's a good shooter. I almost bought one like the one you have, back when they came out. The only thing I didn't like was the ejector rod, which is pretty inclined to snag or catch, on stuff, with those sharp corners, sort of like a fishhook. After looking at your pictures, however, I believe one could round off the two sharp square corners and fix that issue, without reducing the ability to eject the rounds to any degree.

I like your gun, makes me want to get one done.

[Bill in Oregon]

Those wonderful stag grips just set it off beautifully. Don't let Jim T. handle it!

[Scott Tschirhart]

We did a little radius on the ejector rod button. Much better now.

This one only had one cylinder but we bored it out to .22 Magnum.

[Scott Tschirhart]

Now for the shuck!

[Walt]

I have a Smith model 34 kit gun in .22lr. Years ago I took it around to several gunsmiths to have it rebored to fire .22 mags but nobody wanted to do the job. Now that I have a convertible Single Six I think I'll just leave the model 34 alone.

[JimT]

I rounded the corners on the ejector rod just after I got mine. They were sharp on the fingers.

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[Paul105]

Neat little gun. The older I get the more I shoot 22s and really like the little guys.
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Brought back a memory. Back in the late '50s or early 60s my dad had a fellowship to to UC Berkeley. I was "stuck" wandering the streets for about a month. Found an army navy store that also had guns. They had a bearcat that I dearly wanted. Just before we were to leave I got my dad to come take a look. Right next to it was a used S&W Model 10. Dad looked and the little bearcat and the model 10 next to it and said "we need a real gun" and we walked out with the Model 10. That began a long journey for me continuing a year later when my mom traded the Model 10 for a .357 Blackhawk. Dad was not a gun guy but wasn't an anti either. Several years later when I was 17 or 18 I bought a K22 from a city about 30 miles away - years later he told me that the chief of police (a personal friend of his) called to ask him if it was OK for me to have the K22. He never told me about it at the time.

Paul

[JimT]

The Bearcat Shopkeeper strikes again!

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Raccoons been getting our chicken feed ... and a chicken now and again. Stopped this one.

[Scott Tschirhart]

We left the front sight a little proud so I can file it down just right.

I’m thinking CCI Maxi Mag 40 gr JHP or the Winchester version.

[samsi]

Neat little Roscoe, I bet it's got quite a bark.

Count me among the foolish who didn't grab one of those Shopkeepers when I had the chance.

[Old Savage]

A pair of small .22s

[Scott Tschirhart]

Shoots really good!

I was picking out individual thorn clusters on prickly pear leaves and punching them out.

The front sight really helps and the trigger is now useable.

[piller]

PillHer doesn't shoot much, but she likes her Ruger Bearcat Shopkeeper. It weighs almost nothing, and is accurate as I can shoot and then some. I am a decent shot, but like most, honesty finds that most guns shoot better than the shooter can. In .22 LR, that short barrel leaves it at a short range prospect for most people. I sure don't want to get hit by it at any distance.

[Ysabel Kid]

Y2K's first rimfire revolver...

[Lastmohecken]

I see that some of you have already addressed the sharp corners on the ejector. I wonder sometimes when gun companies, in this case Ruger, design a nice little pistol, and choose to leave one little glaring detail that could have been better, with just a little redesign.

[Scott Tschirhart]

I see that some of you have already addressed the sharp corners on the ejector. I wonder sometimes when gun companies, in this case Ruger, design a nice little pistol, and choose to leave one little glaring detail that could have been better, with just a little redesign.

This is actually a great design feature on a short barreled sixgun. You have to get some stroke on the ejector rod and this one lets you go all the way back to the frame because the cutout goes around the base pin.

It’s a small thing to smooth out a sharp edge and I do that on every pistol that needs it.

[AJMD429]

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Super COOL...

[piller]

If you don't mind putting a bit of cold blue on the spot, then a small stone can easily knock off a sharp edge. It doesn't take much. I have done it to hammer spurs. A couple of passes, and the formerly sharp edge will no longer remove skin. If you are ambitious, you can bevel or round the edge. There is not any real need to do that.

[Lastmohecken]

I see that some of you have already addressed the sharp corners on the ejector. I wonder sometimes when gun companies, in this case Ruger, design a nice little pistol, and choose to leave one little glaring detail that could have been better, with just a little redesign.

This is actually a great design feature on a short barreled sixgun. You have to get some stroke on the ejector rod and this one lets you go all the way back to the frame because the cutout goes around the base pin.

It’s a small thing to smooth out a sharp edge and I do that on every pistol that needs it.

I have done surgery on lots of guns, and I knew why Ruger did the cut out on that little gun. I have the regular Bearcat. But If I had one of these, I would round it off too. I would probably round it off even more. It just that those little guns get stashed in a pocket, sometimes and that particular ejector can act like a fish hook and grab pocket material. Hence the reason I would round it off quite a bit.

[JimT]

I carry mine in my pocket a lot. I have never had it hook on anything in the 3 years or more that I have carried it. I ain't saying it cannot happen but so far it hasn't so I am happy. I rounded the corners off enough they quit hurting my fingers.

[BobM]

I’ve had a stainless Bearcat for years and should shoot it more often. I’d like to handle the Shopkeeper grip but haven’t seen one in a shop. I think I also would like adjustable sights

[Lastmohecken]

I’ve had a stainless Bearcat for years and should shoot it more often. I’d like to handle the Shopkeeper grip but haven’t seen one in a shop. I think I also would like adjustable sights

They did bring out a Bearcat with adjustable sights back a while. I have never seen one, but I remember a write up on Ruger doing it. I would kind of like to have one, but my fixed sight Bearcat shoots to point of aim, good enough that I don't know if it would make much difference.

[hfcable]

i have the adjustable sight bearcat in stainles and in blue. they are excellent.

[Ysabel Kid]

i have the adjustable sight bearcat in stainles and in blue. they are excellent.

Pictures needed, please!

[hfcable]

will do

[hfcable]

here is the stainless... the blue one is in alaska, and i am in montana right now







had a gunsmith [ now retired ] do an excellent trigger job on it, and it is a great shooter and a super little trail gun !

[Ysabel Kid]

Very nice!

[hfcable]

it is just amazingly small for how well it shoots.