My piece of crap, $100, gun show Cooey 600.
- Thread starter grelmar
- Start date
- Location
- Whitehorse, Yukon
Keep it as is!
For fear that any changes will turn it from a good shooter to a poor one.
Good find.
RC
For fear that any changes will turn it from a good shooter to a poor one.
Good find.
RC
- Location
- Kawartha Lakes
Good buy !
hometownhero
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Toon Town, Sk
A cooey for $100 at a gun show?? Must not have been at any of the ones around here. Drag it behind your truck for 50 miles after its sat in the barn all its life and then ask $200-400 for it at a gun show is all I ever see
Thanks guys. It started off the morning at the Thorncliffe show at $175. The photos don't do justice to how rough a shape the stock is in, and don't pick up on the severely cracked bakelite trigger guard.
By 1pm, I'd wandered by and picked up and set it down a couple times, but balked at the price. The vendor finally just looked at me and said "Ok, $100, and I'll throw in the scope and mount (which he had set to the side for an extra $50 initially). By that point, I'd actually given it a pretty good going over. The barrel and action looked in great shape - a rifle that had bounced around under a truck seat for a few decades, but hadn't been shot much.
I figured there was a gem underneath the wear and tear. Really glad I was right.
About the only thing I want to do is replace the janky trigger guard, but it shoots well enough as is, so no rush.
By 1pm, I'd wandered by and picked up and set it down a couple times, but balked at the price. The vendor finally just looked at me and said "Ok, $100, and I'll throw in the scope and mount (which he had set to the side for an extra $50 initially). By that point, I'd actually given it a pretty good going over. The barrel and action looked in great shape - a rifle that had bounced around under a truck seat for a few decades, but hadn't been shot much.
I figured there was a gem underneath the wear and tear. Really glad I was right.
About the only thing I want to do is replace the janky trigger guard, but it shoots well enough as is, so no rush.
antiqueguy
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- windsor ontario
they all seem to shoot decent if the bore is good mine likes and gets a steady diet of cheap/bulk ammo accuracy tends to fall off when using any high velocity stuff bagged plenty of small game and pest birds with it
07blackwater
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Port Coquitlam, BC
When I dug my dad's out and cleaned it I was really surprised how well it shot.
Have fun with it!
Have fun with it!
Call
CGN frequent flyer
Why, it's almost as if when things were manufactured in this country they were of better quality! I'm not sure anything made today in Turkey or China is going to hold it's quality the way this Cooey did...
There is the key right there. Ask. What they ask, and what they will take.....well, let's just say I've always seen some pretty memorable differences.
A friend picked up a rough Ballard single shot at a show in Edmonton. The fella that had it started out north of $2K, it sold for $450.
The dealers that have retail outfits are sometimes willing to deal a bit, but there is ALWAYS room to negotiate on a deal for used stuff. Worst they can say is No, and you get on with your day. Then they can haul their overpriced stuff home for next time. Eventually they get tired of hauling it back and forth, eh.
Ya gotta know what stuff is worth, and what it's worth to you.
Cheers
Trev
fat tony
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
There is nothing on the market like them today as far as I can tell.
Try living on a typical early 1970s wage and let me know how that works out for ya!
$150 bucks is not an unreasonable price for a Cooey model 600. The bloody plastique trigger guards piss me off though. I had a Lakefield Mk I with the plastique ####e trigger guard once. The only sour note in a nice Cdn made .22 rifle.
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At $100, you paid the going rate, with the scope/mounts being a bonus. Last fall, I picked up a Model 60 that has beautiful wood and is in excellent condition for $140. Prices trailed downward from there. It's a supply/demand thing, with the large quantities produced suppressing prices. Mind you, I was told by a vendor that prices have ticked upward recently, as the older crowd that grew up with Cooey guns has been buying them for grand kids who are getting into hunting and shooting.
Anyway, the value that a Cooey provides is outstanding when you consider what they cost. Mine performs beautifully, with the only hiccup being that it doesn't always feed Winchester Wildcat 40gr solids reliably. But I consider that to be a problem with the ammunition, and not the gun.
Anyway, the value that a Cooey provides is outstanding when you consider what they cost. Mine performs beautifully, with the only hiccup being that it doesn't always feed Winchester Wildcat 40gr solids reliably. But I consider that to be a problem with the ammunition, and not the gun.
