Anyone know what this is worth?

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It's marked "HW Cooey Machine and Arms Co", "Canuck 25 Caliber" and "Toronto, Canada" on the receiver.

Unfortunately, someone has added a serial number and it's missing the front sight post.

Appears in good working condition.

Any idea as to what it may be worth would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

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I got one of these when I was in school. Paid $3 for it, but that was a LOOOOONNG time ago.

They are chambered deep, for the .25 Stevens cartridge, although regular copper-cased .25 Shorts will work fine.

They are a fun little thing to shoot, surprisingly accurate and a lot more power than you might think. Had a burning-barrel out in back of our restaurant which got used for the occasional "test". A Whizz-bang .22 would penetrate one side of this barrel and make a small dent on the other side. A .25 Stevens round from the .25 Canuck would just drift right through, both sides, and keep on going.

I have never understood why nobody picked up the .25 Stevens round when those idiots at IVI discontinued the type when they took over the old Brownsburg plant in '68. It made a great deal more sense than an endless variety of .22 clones of clones of clones, all with different silly names. If somebody were to put it back in production today, I would buy a brick a month. Believe me, a box and a half for 44 years is NOT enough!

WHY nobody ever built a .25 Stevens semi-auto is beyond me. It would sell, I am sure.... but there would have to be an ammo supply.

Showed my Canuck to a gunsmith friend, a long-time dealer. He was quite surprised, never having seen one, although he HAD seen one in .32RF, which is something I have never seen.

Fine little rifle.

Just needs a box of shells.
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The rifle shown is a couple of years newer than the Joe Salter one.

I would place it likely about 1926 - 1930 for manufacture but there is lots of room for error. It has the very-small bolt-knob, which means early.

Cooey rifles sold for $6.25 at that time. They actually found a market in the USA, despite there being Savages and Winchesters available starting at $2 and going up. The 8-groove barrel in the Cooey really made a difference to accuracy.... and Americans appreciate accuracy, same as we do; they are just more willing to pay for it than skinflint Canadians.

BTW, all Cooeys were rifled 8 grooves and it was very shallow rifling. A modern hyper-velocity bullet will strip and skip its way down the bore, which is why Cooeys have developed a reputation as useless old pieces of sh*t. Feed a good Cooey with STANDARD-velocity ammo or, better yet, with SUBSONICS or MATCH and it is not unusual for one to keep up with a Winchester 52, given that you have the sights and the trigger control. Standard-velocity ammo is even cheaper than the hypervelocity crap as well as more accurate, so you SAVE MONEY and SHOOT BETTER at the same time.

Nuthin' wrong with a Cooey...... ANY Cooey.
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smellie said:
I got one of these when I was in school. Paid $3 for it, but that was a LOOOOONNG time ago.

They are chambered deep, for the .25 Stevens cartridge, although regular copper-cased .25 Shorts will work fine.

They are a fun little thing to shoot, surprisingly accurate and a lot more power than you might think. Had a burning-barrel out in back of our restaurant which got used for the occasional "test". A Whizz-bang .22 would penetrate one side of this barrel and make a small dent on the other side. A .25 Stevens round from the .25 Canuck would just drift right through, both sides, and keep on going.

I have never understood why nobody picked up the .25 Stevens round when those idiots at IVI discontinued the type when they took over the old Brownsburg plant in '68. It made a great deal more sense than an endless variety of .22 clones of clones of clones, all with different silly names. If somebody were to put it back in production today, I would buy a brick a month. Believe me, a box and a half for 44 years is NOT enough!

WHY nobody ever built a .25 Stevens semi-auto is beyond me. It would sell, I am sure.... but there would have to be an ammo supply.

Showed my Canuck to a gunsmith friend, a long-time dealer. He was quite surprised, never having seen one, although he HAD seen one in .32RF, which is something I have never seen.

Fine little rifle.

Just needs a box of shells.
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take a look at the .27 cal ramset blanks if one where to use the ligter charged blanks (brown is the lightest in .27 cal) with a .251 round ball(could be .252-.254 with a soft lead ball i think a number 3 buckshot pellet will do).
it could be a cheap way of doing it unless the blank is a little on the small side

or if you where in the bubbing mood you could have it converted to .25 acp witch would be neat in it self
 
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