The more you think about it.... the more it makes sense!
Cooey 600~I'm in!
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The more you think about it.... the more it makes sense!
^lol...agreed. Cooeys in my life are like the tide~sometimes it's in...other times it's out.
This 600 is a perfect example~I had it out on the weekend again, enjoyed it...but also made a tough decision. I'm passing it onto a friend who for a host of reasons, hunts/fishes to sustain himself. I'd like to keep it but in my life, it's a novelty that will see the light of day 5-6 times a year, tops. For him? It'll put food on the table...so TO my good friend it goes. In keeping with the desire to always have a piece of Canadiana in the safe..I did pick-up a Cooey 84 in 20ga., as there are times I want to have a grouse gun nearby...but don't want anything snazzy getting rained-on, beat-up, locked (out of sight) in an unattended car on a dirt road several kms from where I am, etc. I'm a fan of 20ga for grouse, I've owned an 84 before in .410 and knew what to expect. Heavy, clunky, simple, 100% reliable, and stout recoil=all good.
thenerdboy
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My Cooey 60 liked standard velocity offerings, particularly CCI. Accuracy was fine but wasn't even close to the Savage Mark II that replaced it.
Recently a friend was sighting in his new centerfire rifle on a table with a gun rest and targets at 100 yards . For fun we shot the old Cooey 600 with iron sights , he is a good shot and was able to put 3 shots in a 4" circle with 2 of the shots dead center of the bull but a bit high. I did about the same , the front sight was covering the whole width of the paper target so we used the plywood backstop as a target framer . We surprised ourselves a bit .
I remember when i was a kid on the farm, in the 60's, East Central Alberta, the amount of pickup trucks, with gun racks behind the seat, with either a Cooey 60, or 600, in the rack, several boxes of .22 ammo on the dash, parked on the street,in the field, or at a farm auction, RCMP never said nothing, back then, just try that now,
Just got my PAL this past spring, was looking for a nice low recoil, not afraid to use gun to start training with the boys. Found myself a nice model 60. No serial number to old than '61 I guess. Not bad I was born in '84.
