Cooey 600/model 60 accuracy?

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Hi guy's i was gifted a winchester model 60 last year and still haven't had a chance to get it out ...so my question is what can i expect out the rifle. The one i have is in really good shape wood and bluing are 90% and a good clean bore. I just bought a side mount and looking for a scope for it BUT until i get it out would like to know what i can expect for accuracy and any tips in how to improve the rifle is appreciated as well. Until i get it to the range your feed back is all i have lol.
Thanks
 
The Cooey isn't Win from what I know.
My grandfathers Cooey 60 and father n laws Cooey repeater are lasers at 30yrds and less. However they open up after 30 yrds compared to my BTVS, su22 and 10/22.
Atleast the Cooey shoots everything, shorts, quites and HV ammo!
 
They are very accurate. I read somewhere that they are a tighter bore than normal, .221 instead of .223 but I don't even know if they are/that makes sense. Mine is a tack driver.

Winchester bought out Cooey in 1961 I think.. Anyone know where to find a stock for one of these old girls?
 
All mine are very accurate. I have a 600 that has been in my possession for 30 years, it has seen tens of thousands of rounds during my childhood. Still shoots great. The triggers are crap, but these are farmers guns not bench guns.
 
I think I was getting right around ½" at 30 yards with the factory cooey sights on my model 60. Was using cci mini mag hp. It shoots cci stingers really well also. 4" steel circle plate is an easy target at 100M
 
Well, I had trouble hitting a 3 inch pistol steel target at 200 yards. If it was 5 inches round I'd have hit it at LEAST 2 out of 3. As it was I was hitting it about 1:4. But the majority of the misses were REALLY close as seen by the sand around the target.

Like any rimfire rifle I suspect it will have a special ammo it likes and shoot better with it. I've never tried to test for an ammo match for mine. So I don't know how much better, if any, it would shoot with some other ammo. It was Blazer I used for that particular episode.
 
I recently got an old beater Cooey 600 from my fathers friend cuz he said he had it in his shed for more years than he can remember, and that it did not work anymore.

I was going out for a shoot today and finally remembered to take it... Not only does it work, after whacking the rear sight over a bit with a rock to line it up I was nailing the frying pans at a good distance with subsonics... and even lobbing CB-Shorts up there with a Ping!

I was going to sell this for parts, but now that i know it shoots that's what it'll be doing, and it will be getting a stock-refinish and a re-bluing... it doesn't eject properly, but it extracts so I just flick out the spent shell and hand load in the next. The overall design is a bit bizarre, and the tube mag makes no sense to me, but overall it's a good shooter.

So as far as accuracy; it's as accurate as any decent .22 rifle that I've ever shot. And the price was right ;)





And some + points for not being a picky eater... 3 weeks ago I was at the same spot and the mosquitos were so bad i ran out of there forgetting a small bag of .22's . I found the bag, and they definitely saw some rain. Dried them up as best I could and the Cooey fired a handfull of them with no problems. A couple duds though, so the rest I'm going to dry in a bag of rice to see if they can be saved. Cooey is a champ!

 
My Cooey 60 likes CCI SV (subsonic) resized to .222 with Paco's Accurizer. The supersonics are ok out to 50 yards, past that it likes the slower ones. When I got it I bought a box of every kind of .22 I could find. At 50 yards there was a huge variation (8" to 2.5") in my groups depending on what ammo, with Remington Thunderbolts giving the most problems. With the right ammo its accurate past anything i can see without a scope.
 
mt666tm said:
And some + points for not being a picky eater... 3 weeks ago I was at the same spot and the mosquitos were so bad i ran out of there forgetting a small bag of .22's . I found the bag, and they definitely saw some rain. Dried them up as best I could and the Cooey fired a handfull of them with no problems. A couple duds though, so the rest I'm going to dry in a bag of rice to see if they can be saved. Cooey is a champ!

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DUDE! YOU DRIED OUT YOUR AMMO IN A PAN OVER THE FIRE? ! ? ! ? :D

The ejection comes from the way the round below kicks up and pushes the old casing away. That's why the magazine piston is articulated and extends out and into the receiver body so it can kick away the last casing. There's a sheet metal ramp that the rims and follower piston slides along and upwards. If that's pitted and rusty or if the magazine tube holder isn't adjusted just right the bolt may not be coming back far enough or the wedging action may not be taking place correctly. For the same reason the magazine tube is linked to the bolt so all this works together. Once you open it up and compare it to some videos or pictures in the other Cooey threads I'm sure it'll be a lot more obvious. It's easy but a trifle fussy to set it. And polishing the lifter ramp makes a HUGE difference to the smoothness.
 
BCRider said:
DUDE! YOU DRIED OUT YOUR AMMO IN A PAN OVER THE FIRE? ! ? ! ? :D
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Oh ya, it's like like popcorn. Once you hear the 'bang' you know it's ready!

With this Cooey when I go to eject the spent round the bolt comes right out of the back of the rifle into my hand, with the spent round still held in place. It got a few laughs... I just took a look in there with this look on my face :confused: , and then just hand loaded the rounds as it came naturally for me from using bolt-action rifles with no mags.

I'll take a look about getting it to work properly this weekend, as I see no reason why it shouldn't because internally its in good shape and looks like it should function properly.
 
The screw that holds the magazine up so that the lug engages the slot in the bolt is clearly loose. Or it may even have fallen out. If it did I don't recall it being anything fancy so it wouldn't be hard to make up a new screw and locknut. I'm sure if it's not all obvious how it's supposed to work that you'll find pictures of the setup.

And once it popped how'd it taste? :D
 
When I was 12 my Father presented me with my first real firearm a brand new Cooey 600! I spent just about all of my allowance and any other money I could earn to feed it, I shot it so much that by the time I was 16 it was starting to spit powder back in my face. I think I cycled the bolt so much that it was not fully seating the cartridges anymore! They were very accurate and with that tube mag rarely fussy about ammo!
 
mt666tm said:
Oh ya, it's like like popcorn. Once you hear the 'bang' you know it's ready!

With this Cooey when I go to eject the spent round the bolt comes right out of the back of the rifle into my hand, with the spent round still held in place. It got a few laughs... I just took a look in there with this look on my face :confused: , and then just hand loaded the rounds as it came naturally for me from using bolt-action rifles with no mags.

I'll take a look about getting it to work properly this weekend, as I see no reason why it shouldn't because internally its in good shape and looks like it should function properly.
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What you just said about the bolt coming right out tells me that the screw that goes through the stock and is on the bottom of the action is not tight enough, tighten that up and the bolt should stop falling out.

Watch this and it should help ya!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eqRK84tf8c
 
That is a nut on a stud that holds the action in the stock the nut is what you turn. The nut stays with the trigger guard and doesn't come off the guard.The stud is held in place by another nut you don't see as the gun is still together.The bolt is coming out because the stud and nut are loose,or the clearance is too much.Take the stock off and watch for about 1/16" clearance between the feed tube and the end of the stud.(when the bolt is closed)You are going to have more than this measurement, you state the bolt comes out on its own.When the clearance is correct tighten the nut on the stud to prevent the stud from turning.Checktheboltfuncyion and assemble the gun.

R
 
K.B. said:
What you just said about the bolt coming right out tells me that the screw that goes through the stock and is on the bottom of the action is not tight enough, tighten that up and the bolt should stop falling out.

Watch this and it should help ya!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eqRK84tf8c
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ronnie01 said:
That is a nut on a stud that holds the action in the stock the nut is what you turn. The nut stays with the trigger guard and doesn't come off the guard.The stud is held in place by another nut you don't see as the gun is still together.The bolt is coming out because the stud and nut are loose,or the clearance is too much.Take the stock off and watch for about 1/16" clearance between the feed tube and the end of the stud.(when the bolt is closed)You are going to have more than this measurement, you state the bolt comes out on its own.When the clearance is correct tighten the nut on the stud to prevent the stud from turning.Checktheboltfuncyion and assemble the gun.

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Hmm, that makes sense... I wish I had the rifle with me now as I'd take a look at it. Hopefully it's that easy this weekend when I have it back in my hands (left it locked up at the cabin). I'm geeking out about this little shooter more than my larger caliber rifles that I should be favoring.

I picked just up a few bricks of various .22's so hopefully I can sort out the bolt and get the tube-mag to feed/eject the rounds. I'll bring some sandpaper to work on the stock in the evenings by the fire. A good sanding and some oil ought to bring the wood to life.
 
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mt666tm said:
Hmm, that makes sense... I wish I had the rifle with me now as I'd take a look at it. Hopefully it's that easy this weekend when I have it back in my hands (left it locked up at the cabin). I'm geeking out about this little shooter more than my larger caliber rifles that I should be favoring.

I picked just up a few bricks of various .22's so hopefully I can sort out the bolt and get the tube-mag to feed/eject the rounds. I'll bring some sandpaper to work on the stock in the evenings by the fire. A good sanding and some oil ought to bring the wood to life.
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When you have it in your hands you'll see! I shoot Winchester 555 white box .22's through it and I don't think it favors that ammo much, they are all over the place (maybe just me LOL)

Also see if the the little extractor that goes around the bolt in sort of a U shaped fashions edges are burred/rough, maybe you can reshape them if they are, if not I know the extractors are only like 15$

https://www.gunpartscorp.com/Products/1118700.htm
 
I've had a few cooey 60's and currently still have a cooey 600. They are nice rifles and I've found that they are very accurate. I'm not talking competition type of groups, but definately groups tight enough to kill whatever you point it at within 50 yards. My cooey 60's would hit tennis ball groups at 50-60 yards all day long free standing, using only the sling as any form of support. I also didnt have an issue hitting an 8" frying pan at 100-120 yards as long as I leaned on a fence for a bit of additional support. I have a spinning target that has two 3" spinners and a 2" spinner, and either gun didnt have an issue consistantly hitting them at 25-30 yards once again while free standing using the sling wrapped around my arm to aid in keeping steady. Keep in mind, this would all be shots taken with just iron sights, using my bad eyes and my inability to keep still while lining up the target.
 
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