The Cooey Make-Over Thread

Nice wood......tee hee!!:) I was pretty suprised at how nice the stock was myself. For the 750, that scope base isn't going anywhere!! Having a 7 year old pack his rifle around tests the bond REALLY well. Alot of people will poo-poo the idea of using JB weld, but just because its not common dosen't mean it won't work. I would use a proper mounting system on something my life depends on but for plinking and gophers, its held up just fine.
 
spacesaver said:
Nice wood......tee hee!!:) I was pretty suprised at how nice the stock was myself. For the 750, that scope base isn't going anywhere!! Having a 7 year old pack his rifle around tests the bond REALLY well. Alot of people will poo-poo the idea of using JB weld, but just because its not common dosen't mean it won't work. I would use a proper mounting system on something my life depends on but for plinking and gophers, its held up just fine.
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Hey Spacesaver, Haven't seen either of those since they were "works in progress" . You couldn't wish for a better result. I've said it before but your wood is awesome!!
 
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I don't have any pics of my model 60 just yet, but you may find the story mildly interesting.

We had rented a house some twenty five years ago and I found a five gallon pail that had just the barrel and action in it, no bolt, no hardware, no wood, nothing. Hung onto it for years and when it came time to register our firearms, I registered as a receiver only. One day I found someone who had a bolt for sale. That inspired me to look for the rest of the pieces to make it a functioning rifle again.

My father in law had an old stock with the magazine tube laying around. Then I found a local collector with the rest of the hardware I needed.

I reblued the metal, finished the stock, and made a complete rifle out of all the pieces.

The result is a fun and fairly accurate little shooter.
 
Here is mine. She belong to my grand father and I propose him to restore the rifle who has a broken stock and a lot of rust. I made a new stock from maple and reblue the gun with Oxpho blue. I think I did a nice job since the only tools I had at that time (17 years ago, student and no cash) was a dremel, sandpaper and kitchen knife!!! No chisels. In fact, I cannot beleive I take the time to make this stock, it took me A LOT of hours. But the result is a stock that fit me extremelly well, like no other on the market. My grand father passed away a couple of years later and now, this is mine and it will never be for sale. I wish I could be so patient to do this kind of work today.....

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mkrainc said:
I don't have any pics of my model 60 just yet, but you may find the story mildly interesting.

We had rented a house some twenty five years ago and I found a five gallon pail that had just the barrel and action in it, no bolt, no hardware, no wood, nothing. Hung onto it for years and when it came time to register our firearms, I registered as a receiver only. One day I found someone who had a bolt for sale. That inspired me to look for the rest of the pieces to make it a functioning rifle again.

My father in law had an old stock with the magazine tube laying around. Then I found a local collector with the rest of the hardware I needed.

I reblued the metal, finished the stock, and made a complete rifle out of all the pieces.

The result is a fun and fairly accurate little shooter.
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cool stuff.. i like stories like this. take some pics
 
Seeing there is a sticky now I'll add my 600. My dad gave me this rifle for Christmas when I was a teen. Gave it some new life recently.

Before. I had refinished it once before when I was a kid but really did not know what I was doing. The cold bluing never held and the stock was coated with varathane and was pretty runny. It used to look HORRIBLE. It was given to my dad when a friend found it in their basement and it was all rusted and had deep horrible scratches. It was rusted so bad the action would not open.
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I baked on a good layer of duracoat after stripping it and taking out as much of the rusty parts as possible.

After stripping it

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Then a layer of tung oil to bring out the wood

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Several coats and wet sandings of tru oil later

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Redid my model 60 last winter. I also redid my buddies as we both have one and since we are always having competitions as to who is the better shooter we now have no excuses. :)

In all seriousness this is my favourite .22 rifle that I own. I have a lot of .22's and I think it is because this one was my great grandfathers and has been passed down through the family to me and I was able to breath a bit of life back into it. I only redid the wood and did a gun blue touchup but not a full blueing as to keep the natural age of the gun but still make it newer looking. I will post a couple pics of it.

These are so damn accurate its not even funny. Its too bad mine doesn't have dovetails but with open sights its scary how good I can shoot it. I have one of those carosel self setting Canadian Tire shooting galleries and from 50 yards I can keep those targets swinging as good as I can with my scoped 10/22 if not better.
 
my cooey model 60

when i took posession of this little tack driver, the blueing had browned from sitting in a woodshed for 30+ years, it was oiled before being put away, so the gun needed a real good cleaning, i replaced all the pins/linkage, polished the brass feed tube insert, chrome plated the barrel, trigger guard, bolt knob.
the stock was in great shape. its my favorite .22

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drslav said:
thats insane finish..love it
they are best to experiment on...easy and cheap.
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I have 2 of these stocks sitting here looking for adoption by someone who needs wood to restore a fine old cooey.... I have no use for them and seen as i admire what you all are doing to your old timers, free to who ever wants/needs em if you wanna cover shipping them ;) . pm me. (editted to add..... holleyman was quick on the draw and has spoken for the stocks :D )
 
M14Doctor said:
I have 2 of these stocks sitting here looking for adoption by someone who needs wood to restore a fine old cooey.... I have no use for them and seen as i admire what you all are doing to your old timers, free to who ever wants/needs em if you wanna cover shipping them ;) . pm me. (editted to add..... holleyman was quick on the draw and has spoken for the stocks :D )
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That was a very fine gesture :)

I love how people in this hobby look out for others :)

Make sure holleyman posts some pictures after he puts them to use.
 
found this thread and thought id add mine. a bit different than the others here.
when i got it, it was your average beat up, tremclad coated, rust cooey.
i cut, machined, threaded and polished the barrel, all metal polished sealed with "zoop seal", stock drilled and routed, then prepped and painted with an auto body candy apple finish. sealed with high gloss.
then i made a little flash hider for the threaded tip for fun.
the paint took over 3 weeks to get just the right 'candy'.
now its in the EE so i can begin another fun little time waster.

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turbo-minivan said:
it depends how highly attached you are to a pathetically common $100 gun.
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I think you did a amazing job on the gun especially on the stock. The gun looks awesome. I have a question. how did the "zoop seal" work out for you? Have you seen any rust anywhere yet. I plan on doing something like with a sandblasted finish and looking for something to seal it.
 
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