Cooey 82

Kirk1701

Kirk1701

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U.S.S. Enterprise, Deck 5, 3F-121
Just picked this up yesterday. I have no idea of the year because it's been sanded to within an inch of its life. I'm not sure if there's anything on the underside of the barrel or not. But I thought the bore was quite good, if a little dirty. I'm soaking it in KnockOut at present. We'll see how it turns out.

Question: can the receiver accommodate any other sights other than the simple Cooey peep sight? I'm a fan of receiver sights and since this is a shooter anyway, I thought a nice receiver sight would help me shoot it better. Any help?




 
It will accomodate various peep sights if you are willing to drill holes in the receiver and alter the stock. As it has had extensive sanding, you really have nothing to loose as far as hurting what value it might have had. You cannot tell the year by looking at the gun. There is no serial number on it (except maybe military if an issued gun) and no records kept.
 
Not that I'm aware of. You could check on the Weaver site to see if they have a peep that utilizes the existing sight hole. I think they have something like that but whether it would fit your Cooey I don't now.
 
Does it have the C broad arrow stamp? The standard peep sight makes mine a tack driver.

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Kirk1701 said:
That's been sanded off, but it does have the option for the peep sight. I may try that to start. If it works fine for you, then why argue.
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The mark is on the barrel in front of receiver. If that is missing then I would think they used some pretty harsh sandpaper!!
 
I'm thinking it is a civilian version. The barrel isn't stamped. I'm still pretty sure the stock has been sanded and refinished. It's just too clean. Plus there's no serial number. No matter, it's the same rifle.
 
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All the 82's came with the provision for the peep sight. It's just that some had them and some didn't. You might be surprised how well it will shoot with the Cooey peep sight if you come across one. Your stock may have been sanded, hard to tell from the pics, but it doesn't appear to have been sanded excessively. If no broad arrow C stamped on the breech then it wouldn't have had a serial number on the pistol grip that got sanded out.
 
Walther_PPK said:
Mine has a C/l\ on the breach, the stock, and under the pistol grip. Yet no serial number...for reasons unknown.
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Just an educated guess but I would imagine that the gun was received by the military and stamped with the Broad arrow C indicating that it had met quality standards. But most likely the gun was never issued, hence no serial number . Could have been toward the end of the war but who knows for sure.
 
i had a civilian version in the past and i was looking exactly like your, i dont think it has been sanded, just exempt of any markings
 
My Model 82 has a tiny /|\ over 67 stamped into the receiver, a National Stock Number on the flat part of the bottom of the grip, another string of numbers on the side of the buttstock and another larger /|\ over RCAF next to those numbers. It's sporting some kind of non-stock rear peep sight mounted on a home made bracket but damn that thing's accurate.
 
We bought a brand new model 82 for $8(eight) bucks in a cardboard box.sealed and covered in cosmoline.(The rifle-not the box!!) back in 1961 at FOREST HILLS FACTORY DISCOUNT store in WINOSKI Vermont. my brother still has it. no serial numbers or cdn.army markings. there were 3 or 4 pallets of them. guess we should have bought several.
who knew EH!!!!::HR:
 
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POPS said:
We bought a brand new model 82 for $8(eight) bucks in a cardboard box.sealed and covered in cosmoline.(The rifle-not the box!!) back in 1961 at FOREST HILLS FACTORY DISCOUNT store in WINOSKI Vermont. my brother still has it. no serial numbers or cdn.army markings. there were 3 or 4 pallets of them. guess we should have bought several.
who knew EH!!!!::HR:
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Yeah, that's that ole "hindsight" thing!
 
So far as I am aware, these rifles were not serial-numbered by the manufacturer. (It was not a legal requirement at that time.)

Here's mine - one of the commercial-production ones -

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From the only publication on Cooeys I am aware of .... a 32-page booklet entitled "Cooey Firearms - Made In Canada - 1919-1973" by John A. Belton, published by Museum Restoration Service in 1992 as part of their "Historical Arms Series" -

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I love them describing the traditional Cooey necessity of manually cocking the bolt after closing it as a "safety feature"!
By the way, this volume, and the others in the old Historical Arms Series, are available again since Joe Salter bought the rights to the series (and also all 40 years of the Canadian Journal of Arms Collecting, published from 1962 to 2002) - https://www.armscollecting.com/historical-arms-series.asp

Finally, a photo from the National Archives of Canada showing a worker at the Cooey Factory with Model 82 rifles during WWII -

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(If you compare this chap's height to the rifles, you'll get a pretty good idea of the probable reason he wasn't in uniform!)
 
Yes, there were no serial numbers stamped on any of the .22's made by Cooey. Serial numbers came after Winchester took over. The Cooey shotguns had serial numbers. Seeing that pic of the fellow in the Cooey factory reminded me of a 3 page article I have which is a repro of the steps, procedures and time line each step should take in the process of turning out a shotgun.
 
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