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Hi all, I recently was given a Cooey modle 600. This gun was won at a shooting match in England in the 50's and I have received it from the person who won it. It appears to have never been fired and the gentleman cannot recall ever doing so (he is 90 ).
My question is, two accually, first, what value is a gun like this, and where can I find a reference for the date of manufacture from the serial number?

Thank you in advance.
Randy
 
Cooey 600's seem to go from $100-$150 in the EE. Yours might be more valuable to a collector if it really is unfired. It would depend a lot on the condition though. Even if it's unfired, if it is rusty from poor storage...

Is there a serial number on it??? I thought they didn't come with serial No's before 1968. Something seems odd about a guy winning a gun in 1950 that hadn't been made yet...
 
If it was won in 1950 it will be the model 60. The 600 came out in 1967. If the gun has a serial number, it will be the 600 after 1968. Unless in England it was stamped for some reason. Will need to see a pic to know for sure. Unfired value if in like new condition will be $175.00-$200.00 to a collector, not a shooter. Could bring a tad more if it had the original box.
 
I would keep it if I were you. The lowest end rifle will never be worth that much anyway (it's a Cooey after all) and considering when it was made the quality might be pretty good.
Shoot it first. If you like it, keep it.
 
Perforator said:
I would keep it if I were you. The lowest end rifle will never be worth that much anyway (it's a Cooey after all) and considering when it was made the quality might be pretty good.
Shoot it first. If you like it, keep it.
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Wooh, wait a secont here. Lowest end rifle? I would take a Cooey over a Norinco any day of the week. lol:p
 
lol

Tachead said:
Wooh, wait a secont here. Lowest end rifle? I would take a Cooey over a Norinco any day of the week. lol:p
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Love it.

Credit where credit is due...as fond of Cooeys as I am, the reason there are so many of them is because they were the utilitarian .22 of their time. Certainly lots of Cooey-lust now along with "street cred". My Cooeys are accurate enough too (my 75's are crazy accurate).

I will happily trade you 2 Cooeys for one Norinco lever, mauser or Browning s/a knock off...just sayin'.

Offer stands for anyone else too.
 
camster said:
Love it.

Credit where credit is due...as fond of Cooeys as I am, the reason there are so many of them is because they were the utilitarian .22 of their time. Certainly lots of Cooey-lust now along with "street cred". My Cooeys are accurate enough too (my 75's are crazy accurate).

I will happily trade you 2 Cooeys for one Norinco lever, mauser or Browning s/a knock off...just sayin'.

Offer stands for anyone else too.
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lol, dont have a Nork to trade and probably never will. I dont buy knockoffs. Especially cheap chinese ones because I prefer to have the real ones they are copied from. I just cant get any pleasure from a low quality well anything. I have tried but, just end up regreting it and buying the one I wanted in the first place. I was just having some fun and:stirthepot2:. I dont even have a cooey anymore but, I grew up with one and it always ran like a top.
 
Well last year I picked up a cooey was like new. Dont think it was fired and if it was not very much. $Paid 125 for it + shipping if i remember right. As always pictures will help alot
 
Wooh, wait a secont here. Lowest end rifle? I would take a Cooey over a Norinco any day of the week.
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Yeah, sorry but back then Cooey's were pretty much the lowest priced guns around. My father sold guns back then, he called them crowbars.
I did imply that they were still better built than some of today's offerings which is why you might want to keep it.
Even a crap gun back then had to WORK not just look cool unlike some of the garbage being sold today.
 
Perforator said:
Yeah, sorry but back then Cooey's were pretty much the lowest priced guns around. My father sold guns back then, he called them crowbars.
I did imply that they were still better built than some of today's offerings which is why you might want to keep it.
Even a crap gun back then had to WORK not just look cool unlike some of the garbage being sold today.
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lol, just like Norks are today. Like you said though. Everything was built better back then. At least the Cooeys machining doesnt look like it was done by a monkey with parkinsons:) As, I said though I was just kidding around:stirthepot2: lol though you are kinda right. The Norks are the Cooeys of today. But, made in China by monkeys. lol
 
Wow, lots of replies.
As the story was told to me, it was in the 50's, not 1950, and the owner is 90 and maybe meant 60's. Its says model 600 Cooey by Winchester and yes there is a serial number that starts with CG0*****. I also have a model 60 and the 600 is much shorter.

Randy
 
Tachead said:
lol, dont have a Nork to trade and probably never will. I dont buy knockoffs. Especially cheap chinese ones because I prefer to have the real ones they are copied from. I just cant get any pleasure from a low quality well anything. I have tried but, just end up regreting it and buying the one I wanted in the first place. I was just having some fun and:stirthepot2:. I dont even have a cooey anymore but, I grew up with one and it always ran like a top.
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lol
The laughs keep coming.

OP:
If your 600 has a serial number, marked as Cooey/Winchester it would be a later 60's at the earliest. Metal, or plastic trigger guard?

Shouldn't affect the value in a big way. Unfired for 50, or, 40 years. Still a finer Cooey than some of the "barn guns" out there. Can't deny there's a growing "Cooey fervor" wich means it won't linger in the EE.
 
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That's correct, it will have British proof maks on it. It has a serial number so it is between 1968 and 1979. Just curious, does it have the embossed rabbit and checkering on the stock?
 
Liptugger said:
It is checkered, not embossed rabit, and the trigger gaurd is metal.
Just amazed with the wealth of knowledge here.
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It is a pretty fine community. There's a wealth of knowledge AND opinions...

Tachead said:
lol, just like Norks are today. Like you said though. Everything was built better back then. At least the Cooeys machining doesnt look like it was done by a monkey with parkinsons:) As, I said though I was just kidding around:stirthepot2: lol though you are kinda right. The Norks are the Cooeys of today. But, made in China by monkeys. lol
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I have a shiny nickel that suggests this poster hasn't actually handled, maybe even seen, the Norcs I referred to...yet, opinion prevailed.

If there are proofmarks on your rifle (U.K., and most European countries require it) it may make it "special" thus bumping it's value a bit. Being "unfired" certainly bumps up the value too. Still, you may not be able to sell it, and then purchase a Cooper with the profits.
 
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