Break action Cooey shotguns

[kjohn]

My first shotgun was a 12ga Cooey. They are great shotguns. There are some real beauties still around, hardly ever used. I have a set of chairs and a table made by the relative of firearms Cooey.

 

[Clayrod]

I have inherited a Cooey 84 .410. I need some wood for it. If anyone has ideas for that please let me know. Was Dad’s and I would love to replace the wood and pass it along to my Son who never met his Grandfather.

Killed a pile of grouse with it as a kid with Dad but the wood suffer horribly over the year and it is no longer safe to shoot.

Rear stocks are the same for all gauges and they are the same for the forestock.... except the 410. Took me a year to find a front wood for one of mine.

 

[Clayrod]

Truth, I put a couple 3” mag Imperial #5 or #6 12g shells through mine and man did it kick like a mule. I’m pretty recoil insensitive but that was pushing it, won’t be doing that again anytime soon lol.

I hope yours is an 840 and not the predecessor model 84 as they were 2 3/4 only.

 

[1963beretta]

1963beretta - I think your information source is different than mine - I've only owned a Winchester-Cooey Model 840, not a Cooey 84 - go to Numrich - mostly showing "Out of Stock" for many of those parts, but not all - for Model 840 they list forearms for 28, 20, 16 and 12 gauge as same part number - but different part number for .410. Seems to be same part number listed for all butt stocks, though - they don't separate those by gauge - although they do separate out a "Youth" butt stock. Based on what I saw on the 840 that was here, as if they made the outside of the barrel on 28, 20, and 16 gauge the same size as 12 gauge - at least through the fore-arm area - much thicker walls on 28 gauge, then normally seen on most other shotguns, except for the .410, I presume. I guess I was assuming that Cooey did the same with their Model 84, before Winchester bought them.

ebrand - depending what you have for resources and skills, it would not be impossible to make replacements, especially if you already have originals and all the fittings for them.

My source are the guns I showed in the photo. They are all pre Winchester Cooey 84’s. All the parts are the same with the exception of the barrel size. The barrels of any gauge will fit to any receiver, with proper fitment of course. You are right about the barrel thickness of the 28g….and its the same with the 410. The chamber area is 12g dimensions with a tiny hole in it. In the photo I posted the top gun is a 12g and the second gun is the 410. You will note the receiver and chamber area of the barrel are the same size. The difference is how quickly the 410 reduces in size through the forearm. The forearm from the 12g will snap onto any of the other gauges and hold firm. The only difference in the forearms is how large the barrel channel is.

 

[Butcherbill]

I hope yours is an 840 and not the predecessor model 84 as they were 2 3/4 only.

It’s both lol, I bought it off a good friend. He had the original 84 barrel cut to 19” and found an 840 barrel that a gunsmith checked out for fit etc. The original cut barrel and receiver serial numbers match, it’s obviously had the wood refinished and a recoil pad added.