Is it worth scoping a Cooey?
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fat tony
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I had a Cooey Mohawk. It was like the #75 but had a nicer barrel profile. The typical Cooey .22 barrel has a taper that starts at about twelve inches from the muzzle the Mohawk was tapered all the way iirc. The accuracy surprised me. About 1" groups at fifty yards. Around five shot groups.
I bought a Cooey 600, a Marlin XT-22 and a Ruger American Rimfire for testing to see which one would be the keeper.
I scoped them all with spare glass and went out to the range.
After the Cooey shot 1.5 MOA with CCI mini mags I sold the other two without shooting them and kept the Cooey.
I scoped them all with spare glass and went out to the range.
After the Cooey shot 1.5 MOA with CCI mini mags I sold the other two without shooting them and kept the Cooey.
thenerdboy
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You're thinking about it all wrong. It isn't about how much you paid for the gun, it's all about what the gun can do.
A lot of those old Cooeys have amazing barrels. At any price.
What was the distance to target for these groups? Cheers.
25 yards, which admittedly isn't far, but the fact I was getting 5 shot "ragged hole" groups out of crap bulk Remington Golden bullets, even at that distance, says a lot about what those rifles can be capable of. The "CCI SHP" is the high velocity flavour of the segmented hollow points at around 1640 FPS, really hot ammo for a .22. The Cooey shot it very respectably. Of course the mini-mags did well, because pretty much everything shoots that ammo well.
I have yet to find a gun that gets something remotely resembling a "group" out of bulk Winchester Wildcat.
I’d scope it and see what it’ll do.
I have a Cooey (After Winchester) 600 and scoped it. Accurate for sure. Only disappointment is the 300 pound trigger pull.
Testing with the scope made it easier to determine the accuracy for me vs guesstimating with iron sites.
I ended up removing the scope because I like to have one 22 with a scope for far away and a second for close up shooting with open sites, but putting a scope on the Cooey you have is definitely NOT a mistake if you want a scoped 22.
I have a Cooey (After Winchester) 600 and scoped it. Accurate for sure. Only disappointment is the 300 pound trigger pull.
Testing with the scope made it easier to determine the accuracy for me vs guesstimating with iron sites.
I ended up removing the scope because I like to have one 22 with a scope for far away and a second for close up shooting with open sites, but putting a scope on the Cooey you have is definitely NOT a mistake if you want a scoped 22.
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So you didn’t even bother to see how the other two shot? Not that I wouldn’t own a Cooey .22 but my xt22 shoots between 1/2” & 3/4” 5 shout groups at 50 yards with bulk ammo, I’ve just started shooting some match grade ammo and it’s a real tack driver if I do my part. They are nice rifles for their price point.
thenerdboy
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But they don't have the rich Canadian heritage that people love so much. I've been down the same road myself; can't really blame anyone but you're right - there are more accurate current production rifles for the same prices people want for old Cooeys...
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Oh I agree the Cooey is much more nostalgic, I remember shooting groundhogs with one up at my dads friends farm as a kid. Tube mag bolt action and it was a real accurate shooting .22, I would have shot the marlin and the Ruger to see how well they shot. Especially after I went to the trouble of mounting scopes on all of them, just for curiousity sake really. I’ll eventually snap up a Cooey .22 when I happen across one somewhere, to bad we don’t have any groundhogs around my way lol.
