SHOPKEEPER

[Sam Johnson]

I went to the range last week with SIL and Granddaughter . Had a wonderful time shooting Rugers. Some old and some new. A .44 mag flattop 7.5 in, Security - Six .38 special, a pair of early T-678 , fixed sight .32 Single-Six, Bearcat Shopkeeper, LCR, and LCP. The only problem all day was trying to extract the empties from the shopkeeper. Maybe next time I will try .22 shorts.

 

[Fox Mike]

I replaced the tiny base pin with one from a regular size Bearcat. I then simply remove the cylinder, reverse the base pin, and use it to extract the empties.

 

[gramps]

Or carry a cleaning rod with you.
gramps

 

[DPris]

Sell it.
Then wait a couple months.
You may see a solution.
Denis

 

[Big Old Boy]

I two am waiting on that same solution hope we hear something soon.

 

[LSCG]

do you two know something? should I start saving my pennies???

 

[DPris]

Start saving your pennies.
Beyond which I'll say nothing more.
Denis

 

[PriseDeFer]

The gun came with an onboard ejection system which is reasonably assumed by the buyer to work.

 

[REP1954]

And I've been waiting for a ejectorless model, guess I wont see that.

 

[WIL TERRY]

DANG GUYS, my SHOPKEEPER, STOREKEEPER, FILECLERK extracts it's empties just fine. Most just pop right out and the few others require a flick of my index finger. I've only managed to put 518 rounds through it the past couple of years but it shoots to the sights and is damned accurate out to one hundred yards where we peppered Al's 6" steel targets to a farethewell.
And so it goes...

 

[Captain America]

Completely different gun but my wife's LCR will not eject CCI Mini Mags at all, I have to push the extractor really hard against the bench to get them to extract, ALL other ammunition extracts just fine.

 

[DPris]

Terry,
You got a different Shopkeeper than I did.
Sticky extraction, 15-yard accuracy, and not well regulated for elevation.
I think that one was a Monday gun.

Very much like the concept, though.
Denis

 

[WIL TERRY]

Terry,
You got a different Shopkeeper than I did.
Sticky extraction, 15-yard accuracy, and not well regulated for elevation.
I think that one was a Monday gun.

Very much like the concept, though.
Denis

Denis,
You know what, I got the full-class turd version of the SR22 pistol. Mine will group at 8" or so at 35' and shoot groups of 30' in diameter at 50 meters.
I'ts BBL will lead to a farethewell with some 22LR ammo. You never can be sure which, it just sorta starts and begins piling up. until it looks like the I.D. of the tailpipe on your truck.
The BBL is as shiny as a mirror inside but the rifling itself looks for all the world like it was scratched in by a sharp icepick I swear to God !!!
SR&INC told me they'd send a new BBL for it two years ago but it's yet to show up here in the DT.
With 4930 rounds through it it's functioned flawlessly.....YEEEEEEE GADDDDDDDS !!!
It has a GREAT trigger !
And so it goes...
WT/TM

 

[LSCG]

Start saving your pennies.
Beyond which I'll say nothing more.
Denis

as Flounder from Animal House would say "Oh boy, is this great!"

 

[DPris]

Got one of the first Lipsey's Shopkeepers out, got their adjustable-sighted version last year.
The one with sights will do at 25 yards what the Shopkeeper did at 15.

Re leading, I had one of the first 4.2 .22LR SPs.
Leaded up inside 300 rounds to the point Remington Target loads were keyholing at 25 yards, and I was removing lead from the grooves in strips.

Gun replaced by Ruger, second started doing same.
Turned out the factory was not cutting the cones right.
Discussions followed.

Engineers were telling my contact "We've ALWAYS done it that way, Single-Sixes & everything!" and "They're supposed to lead up at 300 rounds, perfectly normal."
Well...., no, it ain't normal & it ain't the way you cut cones on three Single-Sixes here spanning 35 years of production.

I provided a gauge # from Brownells that my gunsmith used to check, and which clearly showed pretty much no cone, so my contact could demonstrate to the engineers that they were wrong.
More discussions.
Oops.
Cones corrected thereafter.

I had my smith open mine up, quicker than sending a second sample back to Ruger.
Roughly 800 rounds now & no appreciable leading in it.

Sometimes you get a lemon, sometimes you get lemonade.
Mostly it's lemonade, but...
Denis