Cooey M82 trainer

GrantR said:
The Marstar website has a neat page in the "Reference Library" section of the "CANADIAN ARMY LOCAL E.M.E. INSTRUCTIONS" on this rifle, as well as the 1963 instructions for adding the dummy magazine to convert it to the "RIFLE, CAL, 22, C281, WITHOUT BOLT" used for drill purposes ...

http://www.marstar.ca/Cooey22.htm
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The referance to the rifle as a C281 is a msprint...it should read C2B1. On the Marstar page it also reads "Gooey rifle", another misprint.
Further down in the instruction they use the proper designation C2B1.
 
Seems like the M82 is a fav amongst gunnutz ...so
I bought one and I'll be picking it up in a couple days...real pretty with a near flawless walnut stock and also with both a dovetail and peep rearsights . I didn't see much for stamps but I'll be giving it a good going over once I get it home .
I seen the Marstar info and the dummy mag
but why without the bolt ?
 
Back in the 60's we as cadets had these rifle with bolts for drill.They were then modified with a piece of 3/4" dowel installed perpendicular to the butt stock-just like a FN.We also had two complete FN's which we took turns at taking home to practice assemble/disassemble,every week there was two proud cadets walking home with a FN-times they are a changing
 
Timberlord said:
... I didn't see much for stamps but I'll be giving it a good going over once I
get it home ...
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There were also a lot of Model 82's made for sale on the civilian market, so it may not
have Canadian military markings. (No difference otherwise, though ...)

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This all-too-brief blurb is just about all there is on the Model 82 in "Cooey
Firearms Made In Canada, 1919 - 1979", a 32-page soft-cover booklet
which is the only publication covering Cooeys that I am aware of. It is
available from Service Publications:
http://www.servicepub.com/mrshas2.html

Here's my own Model 82 (proper sling swivels have since been installed -
but this one isn't military marked) -
cooey82c.jpg


Closeup of the rudimentary peepsight:
coosight.jpg


I recently got a copy of Ian skennertons Small Arms Identification Series title #16 -
"British Empire Cadet & Training Rifles" - which contains one page of text and one page of
pictures on "North America's Ross, Cooey and Mossberg Models". Has even less
information on the Cooey than the above booklet, but this photo comparison of the
sight radius of the Model 82 and Lee-Enfield No. 4 rifle is interesting (even though
the caption incorrectly identifies the .22 as a Mossberg ...)
mod82no4.jpg
 
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ok got my rear site put on , (thanks tiriaq) but how do you adjust it up /down....( no problem fer windage) ......tap it with a non-marring hammer? i see adjustment marks on it, how are they read/ do they mean ?
thanks
 
Loosen the aperture by unscrewing it slightly, slide it up or down, retighten. That sight was encrusted in the original preservative, you might need to soak it in solvent to free it up.
 
I only just got my recently. I haven't tested the acuracy yet but I hear their great. I didn't think these were so popular. I'm twice as glad I bought mine now.
 
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I have one of these but it is not marked as a Cooey. The only marking on it is "Sure Shot .22" on the reciever where it should say Cooey. The gun is identical in every way to the Cooey 82. It is a real good shooter as well
 
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