Do you the a Ruger Top Break Bearcat would sell?

I think I would buy one. Price is not a big deal unless 'way' over priced like in the 1000s. The small .22 caliber would not 'hammer' the latch as the bigger ones would do, so 'should' last a long time before loosing up. Would be 'unique' and fun :) . Of course keep it Single Action :) . My wife sure likes her little Bearcat!

Unfortunately it would be pretty small market I image... so may not be worth the R&D and startup costs to produce it.
 
A couple of thoughts.

I doubt there is a lot of market for a top break. They are more complex than a swing cylinder and would cost more. Not to mention that anything more than a .22 would raise design issues.

I like the comments that the cost of a Bearcat is too high for a "fun gun". But the cost of making the Bearcat would be almost as much as the cost of making the larger SA revolvers, so why, pray tell, should Ruger charge less because of the way the buyer intends to use it?

Jim
 
I doubt there is a lot of market for a top break.
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On the surface I would agree, but the gun market is changing a lot. There seems to be a lot more people "collecting" firearms. Not just buying one or two for defense and hunting, but owning a dozen or more. That leads to a much larger market for oddities.
I mostly have 22s now b/c it is all I can afford to shoot. I probably won't buy much else in the future. I don't have top break and I am not all that interested in an old one I can't afford to feed. A 22 top break is something I would seriously look at.
 
The idea may well be good. Might I suggest that if advocates of a top break revolver can get, say, 100,000 people to each submit a request, along with a check for $500, to Ruger or S&W, and wait a couple of years, your guns should be forthcoming. But without a certainty of sales, and with cash deposits in advance, no company is going to bet their future on a system that became obsolete (for good reasons) 80 or so years ago when they could be turning out more contemporary guns that sell very well.

Jim
 
What R&D costs? They can copy any top break ever made. Feed the info into your CNC computer and away you go. With today's metallurgy and manufacturing you can produce a gun that is way better than the original designers ever thought. Of course when it comes to marketing and lawyers it is a different story.
 
If they made it, that would most certainly be my next gun purchase. I love top breaks. I have a couple of the elegant old gals and I love 'em. A plinker in 22LR would be perfect and not wear out the top lock. We can dream can't we? :)
 
Ruger (or S&W for that matter) should introduce a line of modern top-break revolvers. If they would bring out a small frame for 22 and 32, a second size frame for 38/357, a 3rd size for 6 shot 41, and 5 shot 44 and 45ACP, and lastly a large frame for 44 and 45 and do them all in a short period of time
I believe they would sell so many that they would have to run 24/7 for several years.

They need not and should not be a copy of an older design. They should be totally modern, with modern steels and made to high quality standards. They need to be made without extra weight for the target shooting market. Strong and lean is what outdoorsmen want.

With modern steel and manufacturing techniques there is no reason a top break revolver cannot be made strong enough to take 44 mag, 41 mag and 357 mag and hold up for longer than the life of the barrels.
 
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