I recently picked up this neat little gun and was finally able to shoot it today. I love the feel of the birds head grip, the trigger was nice but there is one slight problem. The shopkeeper has a 3" barrel and the ejector rod doesn't fully eject the spent cases and the chambers of the cylinder are so tight it's hard to pull them out the rest of the way. It was actually easier to take the cylinder out. Otherwise I love how it shoots, very accurate too.

Any suggestions on extracting the shells? Dad suggesting polishing the chambers which I'll have to do later.

and the base pin is pretty short already. If I was just a few hundredths short of complete ejection, I'd be tempted to shorten it a little more in addition to removing some metal from the backside of the ejector rod head. You could also just drill the ejector rod head to clear the base pin.

I would definitely polish those chambers, if they're not turning loose of your empties w/o a fight.

All my chambers were sticky like yours. I chucked a split rod in my drill press with a piece of folded emery cloth in it. I dabbed some oil on it and with the press running, ran it into my chambers. Didn't take long and after a few minutes work, had all six slicked up. A range trip confirmed that was all that was needed to shuck the shells clean out.

Make sure the end of the ejector rod is square and sharp edged.

When you rotate the cylinder to line up the chamber to eject. wiggle the cylinder as the ejector rod is entering so it catches the mouth of the spent cartridge. It'll send them flying out.

Use 600 grit sandpaper and crocus cloth and polish the chambers.

Bob

It's sort of a 'hollow' crescent allowing it to slide past the base pin and also allows the base pin to be removed without disassembly. Boge has a very clear picture over in the Gunblast article here => http://www.gunblast.com/Ruger-BearcatShopkeeper.htm