Old Cooey

I had a Cooey Model 60 as a first gun - fed cartridges well, walnut stock, cost $5 used from my Dad's mechanic. What's not to like for a kid in the early '60s.
I moved on to a better .22 rifle when I could afford it - a Winchester Model 75 Sporting, which I still have.
 
Cooey's and Lee Enfield's; the Rodney Dangerfields of the Canadian firearms world.
This one came wrapped in a cheap ass polyester blanket from the 1960's; with an 1896 Long lee and a mule-ear 12 with one bbl blown out.
Ask how it functions and shoots? Just fine lol...actually has good rifling still
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I've often wondered if Gun Plumbers hate them because they are cheap POS...or because they are not a source of revenue? Never break, never breaking and...done...
 
That stock split seems to be very common, it's pretty weak there. I have one I pinned with a cut off finishing nail and glue.

Grizz
 
I was at a friend's place years ago when I lived on a coastal island in BC. For some reason we went into his barn where he had various odds and sods, old traps, tools etc., and I saw a rusty old .22 rifle there, a Cooey.

"What's that?" I asked.

"Oh, it was here when I bought the place," he said.

I asked if I could have and he said sure, so I took it home.

Bolt was frozen in the receiver, you couldn't see through the bore, the rear sight was a piece of tin with a hole punched in it soldered on the back of the action and the stock was broken in half and wobbling around.

I took it home and treated it with WD40 (didn't know about Fluid Film at the time) and whatever oil I had around, got the bolt out, cleared the bore, used some wood screws to hold the stock back together, bought a box of shells and went out and shot some grouse with it.
 
tokguy, that old Cooey looks better than some that come my way.

That rifle would only take a day to fix up like new and at $100/hour it would be a steal. ;-)
 
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Here is an old cooey that sat in my father inlaws basement for a lot of years,i reacently aquired it .The scope and mount were sitting beside it tucked away out of site ,there were 3 screws in the receiver the other was missing,and is still missing.Gave it a overhaul and sighted it in.It is very accurate rifle and simplistic in its design .024.jpg
 

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tokguy said:
Cooey's and Lee Enfield's; the Rodney Dangerfields of the Canadian firearms world.
This one came wrapped in a cheap ass polyester blanket from the 1960's; with an 1896 Long lee and a mule-ear 12 with one bbl blown out.
Ask how it functions and shoots? Just fine lol...actually has good rifling still
FEz2S8Mh.jpg

nCF0ypuh.jpg

Ple0LUGh.jpg

O8JMb9ch.jpg

jzO2eLYh.jpg


I've often wondered if Gun Plumbers hate them because they are cheap POS...or because they are not a source of revenue? Never break, never breaking and...done...
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You have one of the first models of cooey repeaters. Cool old things.
 
Clayrod said:
You have one of the first models of cooey repeaters. Cool old things.
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It's been used so long that the bolt seems loose. Great rifling still though. Wish I could get one scoped though, got some cool old glass for these things. And I know it's not a Cooey mount.
Still a cool tube though
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