cooey 840 12 gauge

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went hunting with a friend today and her dad gave her his shotgun to use i quickly grabbed the old rusty thing and inspected it and found it was a single shot cooey model 840 12 gauge 2 3/4 inch with a full choke barrel....


anyone got any info on these old shotguns where they were made how much they sold for new etc?:)
 
The 840 was the Cooey eqivalent of the Winchester M-37, and suffered the same short comings. The ejector sometimes didn't have enough jam to kick out the spent cartridge, and the firing pins where too short to reliably fire Federal ammo due to the deep seated primers.

I actually liked the little guns and had several in 12 and 20 gauge made up with 20" barrels some with rifle sights and some with Poly Chokes and the last one with red plastic bead and screw in chokes. Recoil pads were added and I had a barrel band soldered onto the barrel when I discovered the clamp on type would loosen and slide around.

The first one I bought new was for about $20, in the last year of production they were over $100. I don't recall seeing a Cooey or a Winchester single shot 12 gauge that was only 23/4", the 16's were though.
 
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Cooey was made in Canada and was a very good gun maker. They made decent .22 rifle and shotgun in our history, sadly they were no longer in business. I have a earlier winchester M37 which has a hammer behind the action open lever but 840 more looks like the 37A which the hammer infront of the lever. Some may knock down the Cooeys but from what I have shot is very good gun for the money. Once a while you can see some good used one at the EE. But the fellow member here told me that the model 84 was better made than the 840.

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Picked up a Cooey 840 at a gun show a couple weeks ago for partridge and whatnot, 12ga 3" Full choke, very light rust in a couple places. Seller said he purchased it 15years ago and never even fired it.

From what I can tell it's just a simple reliable(so far) gun, nothing special, but nothing wrong with it either. My father tells me he had the same gun back when he was young and he got many geese and ducks with it until he switched to an Rem 1100.
 
I had an 840 in 16g and a Win 37 in the same gauge. Both full choked, good bird gun. I'm not a big fan of the full choke but suprisingly spits out a slug quite well at 50yds!! I'm thinking of having the choke opened up to mod.
I also had one in 410 with a bbl that looked like the previous owner used it as a lever for a car-jack....killed me 3 rabbits and 2 ruffies though.
 
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First there was the Cooey Model 84.Winchester bought out Cooey in about 1961 and it became the Winchester Cooey Model 84.In about 1968 Winchester cheapened the Cooey line like they did to the Winchester line in 1964.

The Model 84 became the Winchester Cooey Model 840 and there was a Winchester version called the Model 370.These shotguns had birch stocks and forends instead of walnut as on the Model 84.They also had plastic hinges on the forends and non steel trigger guards.

In about 1973 these models were discontinued and an upgraded version called the Winchester Model 37A was introduced.Walnut stocks and forends were back.

The Winchester Model 37 is a completly different shotgun than the Models 84,840,370 and 37A.

Kodiac,what model is your 28 gauge?My first sjotgun was a 28 gauge Winchester Cooey Model 84.
 
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