cooey 60
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Ok, I'll play.
1972... K-Mart Merivale road in Nepean. (Now Ottawa) In the toy department they had Daisy air rifles. These had the internal spring piston mechanism the same as a similar Daisy bb gun. They did not shoot anything, but they did make an impressive pop, and a little bit of smoke if you oiled them. They were out on the toy shelves with the rest of the cap guns.
The Daisy bb guns that looked nearly identical were behind the sporting goods counter with the rest of the guns. Even as a ten year old I already knew the difference.
Well lo and behold, one day as I was walking through the toy aisle, there along with the cap guns was a real bb gun, complete with a milk carton of bb's. Clearly some well meaning Dad had gotten a bb gun from the gun counter for his kid. I expect that when Mom saw it she flipped and made Dad return it to the store. Later some customer service person who didn't know the difference returned the bb gun to the toy aisle by mistake....
I left the store calmly and RAN all the way home to get my paper route money. I RAN all the way back to the store and headed for the toy aisle. IT WAS STILL THERE!
Cool as a cucumber, I picked up the cardboard package with rifle and bb's and strode confidently to the checkout, paid and calmly left the store. A pure crime of opportunity! Better than buying my first underage case of beer....
I still haven't shot my eye out.
Not long after, however, I set up a box of wooden matches partly slid open at the end of the desk in my room, took careful aim and pew- FLASH! The whole box flared up against the wall, leaving a big burnt spot on the paint. After I smothered the matches and cleared out the sulfur smell, it took me hours to clean and blend in the paint on the wall.
Good times!
I
1972... K-Mart Merivale road in Nepean. (Now Ottawa) In the toy department they had Daisy air rifles. These had the internal spring piston mechanism the same as a similar Daisy bb gun. They did not shoot anything, but they did make an impressive pop, and a little bit of smoke if you oiled them. They were out on the toy shelves with the rest of the cap guns.
The Daisy bb guns that looked nearly identical were behind the sporting goods counter with the rest of the guns. Even as a ten year old I already knew the difference.
Well lo and behold, one day as I was walking through the toy aisle, there along with the cap guns was a real bb gun, complete with a milk carton of bb's. Clearly some well meaning Dad had gotten a bb gun from the gun counter for his kid. I expect that when Mom saw it she flipped and made Dad return it to the store. Later some customer service person who didn't know the difference returned the bb gun to the toy aisle by mistake....
I left the store calmly and RAN all the way home to get my paper route money. I RAN all the way back to the store and headed for the toy aisle. IT WAS STILL THERE!
Cool as a cucumber, I picked up the cardboard package with rifle and bb's and strode confidently to the checkout, paid and calmly left the store. A pure crime of opportunity! Better than buying my first underage case of beer....
I still haven't shot my eye out.
Not long after, however, I set up a box of wooden matches partly slid open at the end of the desk in my room, took careful aim and pew- FLASH! The whole box flared up against the wall, leaving a big burnt spot on the paint. After I smothered the matches and cleared out the sulfur smell, it took me hours to clean and blend in the paint on the wall.
Good times!
I
I bought my Dad a no4 Mk II in fantastic condition from Lever in the '80's for father's day (for $135) - the date code matched his national service start date. It's still in the gun safe -I couldn't very well sell Dad's rifle, could I? Incidentally Mr. Lever was a true gentleman, when he saw this just licensed kid going through date codes he asked my what I was looking for, and then why, and went and got me the correct date from the back. I miss the old guy, he was one of a kind.
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My Simpson Sears Shur Shot is the Model 60. Cost me $22.pp in 1955/ I was 11 at the time and needed a note from Mom. 50 cents got me two boxes of ammo. Took the gun home laid across my spreads on my CCM bike. Nobody thought anything of that back then. Edmonton has changes a lot. My Grand-son gets the gun when he turns 11. Only the difference now is his dad will have to be with him when he goes shooting.
Best little rifle you could own, Looking for another one now, I just missed one last week. I;ll pull the trigger on the first good one that comes along.
Take Care
Bob
Best little rifle you could own, Looking for another one now, I just missed one last week. I;ll pull the trigger on the first good one that comes along.
Take Care
Bob
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!968, 15 year old me walked into Thornes Hardware in Saint John NB to buy a shotgun. The clerk quoted me the wholesale price on the CIL Model 402 I wanted, some $9 less than the $36 retail price. He discovered his error after I agreed to the deal but told me without hesitation that he would honour the amount. That lesson in integrity stayed with me.
I had to pay, however, the full $3.35 for a box of Canucks. I still have and use the shotgun and my daughter shot her first partridge with it.
Same store, a couple of years later, they rooted in the back room to find me 3 unopened boxes of Winchester 25 Stevens short (last mfg 1942). Retail was $5 per box, they offered all 3 @ $4/per to clean them out. I still have 1 sealed, unopened box. I don't shoot the Favorite much.
I had to pay, however, the full $3.35 for a box of Canucks. I still have and use the shotgun and my daughter shot her first partridge with it.
Same store, a couple of years later, they rooted in the back room to find me 3 unopened boxes of Winchester 25 Stevens short (last mfg 1942). Retail was $5 per box, they offered all 3 @ $4/per to clean them out. I still have 1 sealed, unopened box. I don't shoot the Favorite much.
gunsaholic
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- Winnipeg, Manitoba
I was 15. I already had a Glenfield .22 and a Savage Foremost 410 pump shotgun that were given to me by my parents when I was 12 and 13. But I walked into the store at 15 and laid $100.00 down of my own cash for a brand new Spanish Loyola 20 gauge double barrel. Later on that same year I laid down around another $100.00 for a brand new Winchester 30-30. I still have all of these guns.
billbmcleod
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- Back very close to Bruce County
I had one of those as well but I kind of made a mess of it using Ramset charges and half a barrel full of birdshot and toilet paper. I still had two eyes but it taught me a lot.
My Dad won a Cooey Model 60 in a contest the company he worked for was doing. It was the 1st rifle I ever shot....I was 4 years old at the time, back in 1958. Every time we went on an overnight fishing trip which was 2 or 3 times a year, I got 1 box of shells....most often .22 shorts to shoot, but if I was lucky sometimes I got Longs or even Long Rifles now and then.....I put thousands of rounds through that old beast over the years. Sadly and stupidly I traded it off when I was 19 on a Cooey Model 64.....a decision I came to regret soon afterwards and still do to this day. I bought a used one last year on EE here and when I got it....the flood of memories and that smell all came rushing back at once. I will confess, I did end up with a few tears in my eyes from it.
Jim
Jim
