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Hi My Brother took this old cooey? over to show me tonight and it has me stumped, I've never seen a cooey repeater this small 37 inches OAL and the barrel is only 20 inches, It is unmarked except for where it says REPEATER 22 Cal. the bolt, action, triger and tube all look like cooey but I have never seen these sights on a cooey. He said the bolt will fit his model 60 cooey. but this barreled action is way to skinny for the mod 60 it just rattles around in the stock. take a look at the pic's and let me know what you think.

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There has been some "customizing" by the looks of it. The rifles marked "Cooey Repeater" had 24 inch barrels and an overall length of 41 inches. I would say this has been cut off and recrowned. The stock should also be a "more slender" version with a fluted forearm. I would say someone cut the barrel and put it in a model 60 stock.
 
gunsaholic said:
There has been some "customizing" by the looks of it. The rifles marked "Cooey Repeater" had 24 inch barrels and an overall length of 41 inches. I would say this has been cut off and recrowned. The stock should also be a "more slender" version with a fluted forearm. I would say someone cut the barrel and put it in a model 60 stock.
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That's what I thought originally, but the barrel is also thinner than a model 60, so the mod 60 stock inletting is way too wide.
 
It is not a model 60 barrel. It is an earlier Cooey Repeater barrel before the model 60 came out. The earlier Repeater, as well as the Cooey Special, was overall slimmer than the model 60. It is loose in the stock because it is not the original stock for that barrel.
I just checked my repeater and it has the same sights as shown on yours. Of course you are missing the elevator.
 
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Hi gunsaholic, thanks for the info. The stock on this one is very slender only 1.25'' wide at the fore end and fits well but is all cracked, and shows no sign of ever having flutes.Could this be a Cooey ace repeater? Does your repeater have Cooey stamped on it ? this one does not.
 
You have one of the original Cooey repeaters. It is the correct length and they were not marked Cooey.
I'm not too sure about the bolt knob. The originals were very small without any grooves. The duct tape would have to come off the stock to see if it is even close to original. I have one complete except for the original stock. Mine sports a later version.
Yours was probably made in the early 30s. Needs a lot of tlc.
 
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You have one of the original Cooey repeaters. It is the correct length and they were not marked Cooey.
I'm not too sure about the bolt knob. The originals were very small without any grooves. The duct tape would have to come off the stock to see if it is even close to original. I have one complete except for the original stock. Mine sports a later version.
Yours was probably made in the early 30s. Needs a lot of tlc.
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Thanks for the info. as for the condition I think its in pretty good shape considering it was found embedded in the mud floor of a collapsed barn! and it works fine.
PS where can I find info on old cooeys?
 
bobc said:
Hi gunsaholic, thanks for the info. The stock on this one is very slender only 1.25'' wide at the fore end and fits well but is all cracked, and shows no sign of ever having flutes.Could this be a Cooey ace repeater? Does your repeater have Cooey stamped on it ? this one does not.
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I misunderstood your first post. I thought you implied it was quite loose in the stock.
Anyhow, I went into the back of the safe and pulled out my early repeater. It is only marked "repeater", it doesn't say Cooey. The barrel is 20". However, mine has the fluted stock which is the way it is described in John Belton's book. Mine also has a small round knob with no grooves.There were obviously variations. I also have the early Cooey Special Repeater. This gun also has a slender stock with a rounded pistol grip. But it has a 24" barrel and overall length of 41". The stock is also hand checkered on the Special.
If it was an Ace Repeater it would supposedly be marked as such. As mentioned, you need to remove the tape from the stock to see what type of pistol grip it has. But I believe what you have is the early repeater from around 1932. If the pistol grip is rounded then it will be original stock.
 
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I made up a Cooey Repeater from very little. I had a barreled receiver, smashed up cracked stock, I had the lifter mechanism (I think), but pretty much everything else was parts from the model 60. I ended up with a bitser rifle that even a Cooey collector would turn his nose up at but I got some enjoyment out of bringing it back from the dead. The board stocks with the rounded pistol grip are interesting, you don't see that often. It gave it a dieselpunk vibe. Very nice rifles, as most Cooey rifles are.

I believe the barrel length on mine was either 24 or 25 inches, whichever it was, it appeared to be the factory length because of the long dovetail for the front sight.
 
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fat tony said:
I made up a Cooey Repeater from very little. I had a barreled receiver, smashed up cracked stock, I had the lifter mechanism (I think), but pretty much everything else was parts from the model 60. I ended up with a bitser rifle that even a Cooey collector would turn his nose up at but I got some enjoyment out of bringing it back from the dead. The board stocks are interesting, you don't see that often. It gave it a dieselpunk vibe. Very nice rifles, as most of Cooey rifles are.

I believe the barrel length on mine was either 24 or 25 inches, whichever it was, it appeared to be the factory length because of the long dovetail for the front sight.
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It would have been 24".
 
Hmmm, any early repeater that I have seen had the rounded pistol grip. I think there are several different variations out there which makes it very difficult determining when a particular Cooey might have been made.
 
The duct tape is a giveaway...many original repeaters have some pistol grip tape. As suggested already, these are the forerunners of the model 60. Made between '31 and '39 I haven't seen one that was D&T for the sidemount scope like the 60.
A repeater in it's original stock (rounded pistol grip, and certainly more slender) :

A 60:
 
Below are my early repeaters. The one with the fluted forearm has the 20" barrel, the other a 24" barrel. Both are slender stocks with the "Special" having hand checkering. Both have rounded pistol grips.




 
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