Cooey Interest???

I still have the first cooey .22 from when I was a kid, as well as I had a semi auto which i sold last year.

The semi auto was way more accurate and just as reliable as the ruger sr-22 I replaced it with. The cooey had thousands and thousands of rounds through it, and I dont recall it ever screwing a shell up, and my ruger has done a few allready. The ruger is "pickier" with ammo, as the cooey I could find a old .22 bullet in the ditch, clean it off and shoot it. That thing would shoot anything, and flawlessly.

Price tag on the cooey was 40 used in 1999, price tag on the ruger sr-22 was 569 new last year.

Now Im not saying the ruger is a bad .22 at all, but its got some big shoes to fill after that 40 dollar used semi auto cooey that I sold.
 
I'm only young and don't entirely have the nostalgia factor but the first gun I fired was my fathers mod 84 16 gauge that he inherited from his father when he died several years before I was born, when I got my PAL the first gun I bought was a Cooey 20 gauge and then a .410, I'm now looking to get a .22. They're great guns no matter how much you beat them up they're just as accurate as any $500 gun and much nicer looking then most new guns to.
 
I've got a Cooey 600 that was my father's. And it was his father's before him. Right now its somewhere around 50-55 years old (not sure of the exacty year). I've done some restoration and subtracted a few years off its appearance. It was a great gun to learn how to shoot. I still have it and will keep it to give to my kids. Not a chance I will sell it, mostly because of sentimental value more than anything else.

Also, I'm planning some more major restoration on it to have it looking better than new.
 
Bought a brand new in the box, full wood COOEY.22 think it was a model 87 for 8 dollars at the FORREST HILLS FACTORY OUTLET store in WINOSKI vermont. there was several pallets of them. 8bucks,brand new. i was 14. (WAS WITH GRANDAD) i paid for it and carried it to the car. how things change.
 
Avalonthas said:
They are excellent to tinker with and learn how to refinish
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Right on!
The only hard part about stock finishing is in getting the clear wood stained. For some reason, the light colored wood they use just doesn't stain easy.
I have had good luck in polishing off the old, worn bluing and doing a complete cold blue job.
I once wanted to mount a 22 scope on a Cooey single shot. Didn't feel like going to all the trouble to drill and tap,so I got the closest fitting mount I could find and put it on the rifle with JB Weld, apoxy glue. Solid mount, never loosend or came off!
 
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