Cooey Model 60 (AKA Winchester model 600) warped stock

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Hey everyone. This is my first OFFICIAL post here. I posted an introduction and so now..here I am.

I was planning on rebluing and maybe refinishing the stock on my Son's old Cooey model 60 .22 for Christmas this year.
This is the rifle since made by Winchester as the model 600.

Upon dismantling it and looking down the stock's barrel channel I noticed that the wood stock is very warped.
The gun still shoots straight and everything but it isn't worth doing any work to it as it is right now so my questions are...
Is there a way to maybe heat or steam the stock and straighten it?
If not...and this might probably be better in the ForSale forum (waiting for authorization) and hopefully this isn't a rule infraction on my FIRST post but...
does anyone know where a guy could find a replacement stock for this firearm?
I don't care if it's laminated, solid, wood, plastic, composite, black, brown, red, purple....
Just as long as it's straight and fits.
New, used...whatever.

I have searched like crazy and it doesn't seem like there are any aftermarket parts available for this rifle anywhere online. I think I found a seller who will custom make a stock for pretty much anything you want but... $$$$$ :-(

SO...if YOU don't have one availbale, know anywhere a guy could find one?

Thanks in advance and I sure hope this is all legal and wont get me invited to LEAVE :-(
 
You are all good....

Model 60 was my first rifle.... I always have at least one in the safe..... over the years I have redone dozens of them.....

If the stock is warped it is most likely toast..... on e you do get ee access keep an eye on the rimfire parts section for a new one..... I see them pop up pretty frequently.....
 
Might be a matter of compromise. A warped stock that is functional is more of an aesthetic issue. You can run a wtb ad in the EE, keep an eye out at shows, etc for a replacement if the current one is too offensive. You will not find a synthetic or laminate that was factory made for a 60.
 
Yeah, if gunrunner100 doesn't have a stock somebody likely will. Just apply for access to the EE and post a want to buy ad. However, I'm not exactly sure if a model 60 stock will fit so I'd make sure it's for a model 600.
 
There's a Cooey Model 60 and a Model 600. Likely the same thing with different finishes. No Winchester Model 600 listed on Gunparts anyway.
If it shoots well, follow Rule Number One. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If you insist, try Western Gun Parts. Epp's maybe. Epp's has a lot of odd stuff that doesn't get put on their site.
 
I just checked my 1969 Winchester parts manual. It shows the stock as being the same for the model 60 and 600. But it doesn't specify if they are just talking Winchester made guns after they took Cooey over in 1961 or if it also applies to the older original model 60. I know the stocks from an original Cooey model 60 and a Winchester model 600 are a different design. But that doesn't mean that the barrel and action won't fit from one another. It shows the magazine tube as being longer on the 600. If you find an older, original model 60 stock, you might want to get measurements before forking out money.
 
Thanks for all the great replies.
I applied for access to the trade forums. Should be approved any day/minute now.

Yeah, it still shoots straight and all.
I pulled it apart to kinda refurbish it for the kid...well Son...hardly a kid anymore..I have GRANDkids now.
I'll bark-up those suggestions for sure. Hopefully someone has one. If not...yeah...it aint completely broke yet.

As for the model discrepancies...it was a model 60 before Cooey sold to Winchester who then renamed it to the model600. This one is one of the old Cooey model60s.
I'm just assuming that Winchester changed the name only and that everything else is still ...or was still the same as the original Cooey model60.

If I can't find one right away I'll just clean it up, maybe do a bit of bluing and....chicken season opens THIS MONTH around here.
I don't shoot grouse with a .22 though. I'm not trying to make things FAIR or give those rascals a fighting chance. I take the 12gauge and they ALL make it to the plate. Of course I aim a few inches above their heads with some #6 shot or so. VERY rarely do I ever get pelletized breastmeat. There is the odd time that they try to fly away and THEN they might get a bit tenderized...I mean get a pellet or two in the ass but yeah...
I used to take him grouse hunting when he was little. I'd let him pop the first shot off with the .22 and I would be ready for the follow-up with the gauge if he missed. Little bugger never did though.

All I know for SURE is that I'm getting an itchy trigger finger.
You gotta LOVE this time of year don't ya? We have stopped buying produce because the gardens are KILLING it. Every day is fresh food...almost. In another week or so the meat department wont be seeing me either.
Man I'm getting excited. I realize that this is a gun forum and not a hunting one but...the grouse then the big game and then the migratory game birds.
Yup. The rest of 2014 is gonna be FREE FOOD!!! And GOOD, organic, hormone-free free food.
BUT...I'm an Albertan.
I get easy access to all of this game via oil and gas industry access roads. Trouble is, with all the sour gas and sour gas leaks, pipeline ruptures (they are a DAILY occurrence...keep that in mind when the Keystone pipeline debate restarts. Say NO to our FILTHY OIL!!! PLEASE! I am NOT being sarc or facetious...I'm serious. You think Canada is pure and pristine? Think AGAIN Mister.
I live beside the mighty Athabasca river where you are allowed to eat the fish caught in the river. As long as we don't eat more than ONE per YEAR. Well unless you're an infant, pregnant or a senior citizen. Then the safe number per year is ZERO.

Is that what YOU want for YOUR country and kids and grandkids? I don't think so.

If you say NO to our nasty oilsands bitumen we will be FORCED to change the ways we extract and semi-refine it. The methods we are using are almost 100 years old.
We can still get at all that oil but we can do it in a much friendlier, cleaner way.

Hey...sorry for the off topic, tangential rant.
THANKS again for the replies and suggestions...and for having me.
I'll try to keep it unpolitical and more gun oriented. Wait..is that even POSSIBLE???

Thanks again.
 
smokestack said:
As for the model discrepancies...it was a model 60 before Cooey sold to Winchester who then renamed it to the model600. This one is one of the old Cooey model60s.
I'm just assuming that Winchester changed the name only and that everything else is still ...or was still the same as the original Cooey model60.

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Well, not quite. Winchester took over in 1961. The model 60 was produced until 1967 when it was changed to the model 600. I have never really compared the internal workings from later 600's to the model 60 but if I was buying a bolt etc. from a model 600 to put in a model 60 I would want to make sure it fit before buying. As already mentioned, the magazine tube is a different length. There are also different take down studs. There are other differences that are cosmetic. The 600 stock is not the same contour/design. Other than some of the early 600's, the stocks are hardwood. All Cooey model 60's were walnut. The 600 also went to a pastic trigger guard and plastic buttplate. Some early 600's were drilled for a side mount scope like the old 60's while later 600's had a grooved receiver.
It is very possible that a lot of the inner workings are the same but I would want to compare dimensions of whatever part I was buying if parts were from a later model 600 before laying out cash if I couldn't see the part in hand. This is just friendly advice to maybe prevent one from forking out money for something that might not work.
 
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I would think some steam, then some time between two straight pieces of hardwood in a vice, might help solve the warp Problem. Worth a shot before turfing it anyway :) I have never done it on a wood stock, but I have watched a guy make snowshoes with steam and hardwood and it worked great. Just a thought anyway until some actual gunsmith arrives with better advice.
 
bobbynewmark said:
I would think some steam, then some time between two straight pieces of hardwood in a vice, might help solve the warp Problem. Worth a shot before turfing it anyway :) I have never done it on a wood stock, but I have watched a guy make snowshoes with steam and hardwood and it worked great. Just a thought anyway until some actual gunsmith arrives with better advice.
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Yes, that could very well work. Come to think of it I watched my dad make an oak ski for an vintage autotoboggan as well as oak runners for the bottom of a bombardier skis. He boiled them in water and bent them around jigs he had made.
They also bend shotgun stocks by steaming. They can put quite a bend in them.
 
I remember a few years ago I got a 600 stock to work on a 60. I remember the metal piece that the takedown screw went into was a little wider on the 60 and needed some in letting, also the loading port on the tube mag was in a different location. Like gunsaholic said, double check before buying.
 
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