Cooey Model 75 Used as a Trainer?

[STG-44]

I recently came across a Cooey model 75 that had a C Broad arrow stamped on the bolt.

This is actually the fourth one that I've noticed stamped as such.

Did they ever use them as trainers? I know that they used the model 82's and they have the same bolt, but it seems weird that that many bolts would have been swapped.

Other than the stamp on the bolt the rifles weren't marked any other way.

This particular one isn't very clear, but the others I've seen were clear as day.

 

[cooey43]

My thought is that M-82 bolts where bought from surplus sales to replace missing bolts from 75's & 39's.
Many a farmer stored his bolt separate & latter generations could not find them .

 

[points]

That.

 

[Clayrod]

Never seen a model 75 trainer. Have seen and owned dozens of single shot cooeys and store branded models with broad arrow bolts. I heard or read somewhere there were tens of thousands of excess military bolts which made their way into the civilian guns. I currently have about 6 or 7 that are broad arrow stamped.

 

[cantom]

Funny you bring this up. I have an absolutely mint Model 75 with C Broad Arrow on the handle as well. Have wondered the same thing.

And, why are they all in Model 75's?

 

[xsniper]

The Model 75 is almost identical to the model 82, but without the provisions for the rear peep site, and will slip right into a Model 82 stock. when the Model 82's were called in most were stripped of their wood and bolts, the barrel and actions went into the scrap bin the wood became firewood and the bolts were surplussed. The wood was kept for a time as it had the serial number of the rifle, these were audited by DND to prove that they were destroyed, and then into the garbage. How the bolts ended up in #75's is unknown, may have found their way back to Cooey and re-used or were just leftovers from Model 82 production.