Interesting Winchester/Eatons .22

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I just thought it would be neat to share a few pics of an interesting .22 I bought form another forum member and collector a couple of years ago. Maybe someone else has something to add if they know anything about this gun. This is a Winchester mannlicher stocked .22 that was made in the Cooey plant. It is not marked Winchester/Cooey, only Winchester. This gun was made for Eaton's 100th.anniversary in 1969 and is so marked in gold. I was told this gun was a prototype that never went into production and that it is believed to be the only one there is. I know I have not seen another Winchester mannlicher stocked .22. This gun also has a Buffalo Bill medallion inset into the stock. I don't believe this would have been put into production models though. Winchester also made the model 94 30-30's at this plant. In 1969 they came out with a Buffalo Bill centennial model that had the medallion in the stock. This .22 was made in 1969 and I believe an employee probably just inlaid it to spruce it up as it was a prototype. This gun also has a chrome barrel band and chrome trigger as well as a chrome pistol grip cap and sling swivels. This gun was fired around the factory and has a few handling marks. I have researched this gun many times on the net but came up with nothing. I guess if it is indeed the only one there is I wouldn't find anything. Anyhow, I thought it would be neat to share this story and see if anyone knows anything else. Any one have an insurance purpose value?
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No, this is nothing like the Cooey trainer. I have two of those. In fact, the Cooey trainer was not made after around 1948. This gun was made in 1969 and although made in the old Cooey plant, it is not marked Cooey. In fact, some time ago I posted this on RFC under the Winchester forum and the experts on there all said they had never seen one before.
 
Wow! That is really neat! The rifle would look good laying on my Cooey card table, with Cooey chairs sitting around it.

No kidding. I have a set made in Coburg. My guess is that the Cooey who made the table and chairs might have been some relative of the "real" Cooey"....:)
 
It sure definately has it's own character.
Not hard to look at.
Interesting find.
I've never seen one like it either.
Thanks for the post and photos.
 
It would probably look great sitting on that card table!:D I didn't photograph the other side where is says Made for Eaton's of Canada 100th. Anniversary. The barrel sits a little low in the stock and is hard to read/see the writing on that side. I am sure this would have been corrected if they put this gun into production. Wished I knew the story of why it never went into production for Eatons. I guess there could be a lot of reasons.
 
Cool gun! I would try to take it to the Manitoba museum of man & nature to have it assesed for value, they have several old cooeys there and likely have experts on historical Canadian firearms.

Maybe fire off a pic in an e-mail to them?
 
Interesting to say the least. Looks very model 39ish but with a manlicher stock. These proto types pop up every now and then. Its really to bad there's no Cooey museum. I realize this has nothing to do with Cooey but its still tied to the history------Cowboy
 
In this case I think it is like the Winchester model 750 action, not the greatest in the West. In fact, you can tell the gun was made to a price point. For what was to be an Eaton's anniversary model, it just sports a basic hardwood stock instead of walnut. but I guess a lot of gun makers had gone to hardwood on lower end guns by then. And as I mentioned, the action is not the best there was out there. I don't know how accurate it is as I have never shot it. But if anything, it is an interesting gun that combines both Winchester and Cooey history.
 
Nice rifle and very interesting to say the least. It would be hard to assess a value on it if there is no other to compare it to and it does not exhibit a sales history itself. For insurance purposes, I have seen "one off" type of firearms compared to similarly unique/rare firearms in the same age group/manufacturer. In reality value, it is worth whatever someone agrees to pay for it, which can be almost anything these days. Heck, I just seen someone pay 200K for a Volkswagen camper van at Barret Jackson auctions so the sky is the limit.
 
Cowboy said:
Interesting to say the least. Looks very model 39ish but with a manlicher stock. These proto types pop up every now and then. Its really to bad there's no Cooey museum. I realize this has nothing to do with Cooey but its still tied to the history------Cowboy
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I believe this rifle has everything to do with Cooey....made on the same tooling in the same factory. Winchester acquired Cooey and initially the Cooey plant put the Winchester logo on "their" guns. Is Cobourg Ont. scribed into the barrel anywhere? {Cooey factory}
 
plinker 777 said:
I believe this rifle has everything to do with Cooey....made on the same tooling in the same factory. Winchester acquired Cooey and initially the Cooey plant put the Winchester logo on "their" guns. Is Cobourg Ont. scribed into the barrel anywhere? {Cooey factory}
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No, it does not say anywhere in which plant it was made. It just says made in Canada by Winchester and on the other side Eaton's of Canada 100th. Anniversary 1869-1969.
 
Sorry to highjack this thread but, it's Cooey related.(Please let me know if I should be asking elsewhere.)

The OP states that Winchester also made Mod. 94 rifles at the Cobourg plant. Does anyone know the time period that they were made and if they were marked as "Made in
Canada".

Walt
 
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