Cooey Model 60 Historical Pricing

[boss-hog2]

In 1958 I paid $18.45 Tax incl for a Cooey model 60 Pkg inluding a side mounted Weaver 4x scope at a General store in a small town Saskatchewan

 

[Old Ranger]

My first rifle was a Cooey M39 that Dad bought me for Christmas 1960 when I was 12. Brand new from a local hardware store for $11.29. It was marked $12.29 but Dad got them to knock a buck off because it had a small scratch. No sales taxes in those days either. Had more than one small scratch before I was done with it. (High school trapline etc).
Dad was 97 in Nov and can still remember that Christmas.

 

[Bonefish]

Wow! You can still get them new? Must check this out...

 

[Blastattack]

Wow! You can still get them new? Must check this out...

No, you cannot. Unless they are NOS, New Old Stock. Cooey model 60/600s haven't been made in decades. Unless you are referring to the Mark II Savages/Lakefield, then yes, Savage currently makes a wide variety of Mark II variants.

 

[Blastattack]

Great to hear all the old stories about these great guns. To think that such a mundane and ubiquitous item has so many fond memories attached is truly awesome.

 

[Andy4802]

I still have my dad's model 60 that my grandmother bought him in 1959 for his 12th birthday. Another hardware store bought gun. ahh the good old days

 

[Chumlee Bumsnag]

All this Cooey talk convinced me to take out the Model 60 with the 4X Weaver scope. All the the small targets are at 50 yds. and the big target was at 100 yds. I was shooting about 4 inches above the paper at 100. The groups are nothing special but good enough for a grouse head shot at 50.
I picked this #60 up off an older fellow back when the registration came in. He just wanted to be rid of it and I think I paid $50.

 

[Chumlee Bumsnag]

 

[ensro]

In 1959 an ad in The Western Producer asked $8.00 each or two for $14.50 for Cooey 82's.

A classmate and myseld ordered them and a week later picked them up at the train station.