Ruger Bearcat

CZU · Mar 17, 2024

These never show up used at the LGS, I suppose that everyone that has one holds on to them. I've wanted one since I was 10-11 years old but it was never to be at that time. Now, 50 plus years later, I have one and it's all steel (except for the ejector rod housing). Midway sells steel ejector rod housings and I already have one on the way for only $8.99 plus tax & shipping. What a deal!

This one was made about 30 years ago. It's a shooter, my first shot at about 15 yds rang the steel spinner. I can't wait to put some more lead down range.

mk70ss · Mar 17, 2024

A good .22 is as much fun as just about anything!

Alpo · Mar 17, 2024

I agree, you never see a used one. I have seen one used Bearcat in my lifetime for sale. It's now at my house.

ispcapt · Mar 17, 2024

My girlfriend, now wife, bought me this Bearcat in 1972 for my birthday before I left on a 6 month deployment. I still have the box and receipt. $53.

Faulkner · Mar 17, 2024

My Bearcat is my regular companion for varmint control when I'm out working around the Faulkner homestead on the tractor or ATV. It is THE most accurate .22 LR handgun of the dozen I own, I've taken quite a few four legged and slithering critters around the hen house and I even took down a coyote with it a year or so back.

I carry it so much that I decided to have Nixon Leather make a custom cross draw rig for it.

Baxter6551 · Mar 17, 2024

Faulkner - what a beautiful rig. Tell us about the knife !

diyj98 · Mar 17, 2024

I've owned several Bearcats over the years, but the adjustable sight model was my favorite. I'm not a fan of fixed sights on anything but a pocket pistol.

DARE · Mar 17, 2024

Here is mine. Received it on my 9th birthday in 1959.

Mule Packer · Mar 17, 2024

The Ruger Bearcat is the epitome of what Skeeter Skelton once described as a perfect trail gun or kit gun. Weighs next to nothing and with a box of 50 rounds of .22 in your pocket or saddle bags you're "unaware of its presence until you need it."

dwh · Mar 17, 2024

My Bearcat and Varner Favorite are a favorite woods loafing combo of mine. My wife seems to have commandeered them of late. She thinks they’re cute.

Goony · Mar 17, 2024

My steel frame Super Bearcat made in 1972, a pawnshop find from just a couple years ago.

mdf9183 · Mar 17, 2024

Here is mine, I picked up at a pawnshop a few years back. I don't shoot it much because it just doesn't fit my hand well but it is a good shooting pistol

Marshal Tom · Mar 17, 2024

I like the Super Bearcat better than the regular one. It just feels better with the extra weight. I think the adjustable sighted new model is really cool but I like the original ones more. I purchased an old model Bearcat for my wife years ago cuz she thought they were cute. She never shot it so I traded it away for something else! She is not happy about that so I am going to find her another.
I just helped a guy at the last show in Montrose CO. He had two of them on his table, both with boxes. I sold one for him. The second one had fake stag grips on it so I didn't like it. They do show up from time to time.

sceva · Mar 17, 2024

I don't have one ; not a single action fan myself. However a good friend has his Grandfathers Bearcat ; an early one. I got him the old stags on it from member DANT.

Heinz · Mar 17, 2024

I have two Bearcats, both with stainless steel frames. I also have 2 of the convertible single sixes. The standard barrel gun has the box and the holster. The birdshead is a Lipsey special in a smaller Ruger box

22lrfan · Mar 17, 2024

I've picked up a bunch of Single-Six's at pawn shops but never see Bearcats. This unconverted 1962 model showed up at one a couple years ago and I couldn't leave without it.

Muley Gil · Mar 17, 2024

Back in 1970, Montgomery Ward had a new one for $39.99. I had a dollar in my pocket and little chance of earning the remaining $39. When I did get $40 together, the Bearcat was gone and I wound up with a Kimel Industries piece of doo-doo Colt Frontier copy. Scratch rifling in the barrel and doubt I could have hit an outhouse while sitting inside.

Years later, I picked up a nice Super Bearcat. Money got tight and it got sold.

While I was working overseas in the 2000s, a friend of mine picked up a stainless New Model for me. A few years back, I bought a spare cylinder for it and reamed it to .22 Magnum.

Don't expect to ever sell this one.

ruger 22 · Mar 17, 2024

Nice little sixguns for sure. A bit small for my hands but for those interested Guns International has about a dozen for sale at rather stiff prices.

Faulkner · Mar 17, 2024

Baxter6551 said:
Faulkner - what a beautiful rig. Tell us about the knife !

Don't want to get too far off topic from the OP's Bearcat thread, but the knife is custom made 3/4 sized Old Hickory style sheath knife. A local knife maker had made the one pictured on the left using an old sawmill blade for the metal, the handle is spalted and stabilized maple. It is a dandy utility knife. I liked it so well that about a year later I asked him to make another one (the one pictured right).

GypsmJim · Mar 17, 2024

I always wanted one too. About 10 years ago I saw one on the wall rack at my LGS. I asked about it and the price was $250. I tried to talk him down a bit and he wouldn't budge. Then he said wait a minute and he went to the back room and he brought out the box with all original paperwork, plus a set of real stag grips. I couldn't fill out the 4473 fast enough.

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