Cooey 12 ga single, cutting the barrel

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Who has cut a cooey 84 or 840 down to 18.5? How did it shoot after, anyone had it tapped for chokes?
 
I cut my Cooey 16 ga down to remove the unsafe budge from the barrel I haven't patterned it but I assumed the patterns are opened way up going from full choke to cylinder bore. Corwin arms sells single shot 12 gauge sinisinati shotguns with screw in chokes that are available in 18.5 inch barrels and 14? (I'm pretty sure on the 14 may be outta stock at this time). If you are worrying about patterning it might be worth selling the Cooey and picking up a sinsinati. The Cooey market has been strong as of late people are getting quite a lot for a single shots and the Sinisinatis are super affordable. I am currently waiting for mine in the mail should be more versatile then a single shot cooey with a full choke.
 
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I cut my Cooey 16 ga down to remove the unsafe budge from the barrel I haven't patterned it but I assumed the patterns are opened way up going from full choke to cylinder bore. Corwin arms sells single shot 12 gauge sinisinati shotguns with screw in chokes that are available in 18.5 inch barrels and 14? (I'm pretty sure on the 14 may be outta stock at this time). If you are worrying about patterning it might be worth selling the Cooey and picking up a sinsinati. The Cooey market has been strong as of late people are getting quite a lot for a single shots and the Sinisinatis are super affordable. I am currently waiting for mine in the mail should be more versatile then a single shot cooey with a full choke.
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I had no idea these were available. Thanks.
 
I've had a half dozen of them cut down. Some I left cylinder bore, one had a Polychoke, and one had screw in chokes. One of the cylinder bore guns, had a set of Remington 700 rifle sights mounted on it, and I could keep 5, 1 oz Winchester slugs in a palm sized group at 100 yards. I found that cut off to 20" provided reasonable balance, as well as a manageable length.
 
I did this with a 12ga Winchester 37A I bought brand new around about 1980. I don't think I even fired one shot through the 30" full choke barrel.
I cut off about 5", drilled and tapped the barrel for another bead.
It made a great little bird/rabbit gun, I just sold it last year in fact.
I'd do the same with your Cooey in your position, they're good old guns but hardly a gold mine as a collector item.
 
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