Mounting a Scope to a Cooey 60

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Hey Everyone,
This past weekend my grandfather gave me his extremely good condition cooey model 60, I love this thing but would rather move away from the iron sights to a scope, so I can use it as a trainer to my bigger rifles.

Unfortunately, the action is not drilled to accept a mount. So what are my options? I've read about using a weaver side-mount, but I would have to get my rifle drilled and tapped right?
 
maliciousadvice said:
Hey Everyone,
This past weekend my grandfather gave me his extremely good condition cooey model 60, I love this thing but would rather move away from the iron sights to a scope, so I can use it as a trainer to my bigger rifles.

Unfortunately, the action is not drilled to accept a mount. So what are my options? I've read about using a weaver side-mount, but I would have to get my rifle drilled and tapped right?
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If you can work with small tool, files, maybe some grinding, etc, here is one solution.
This applies if the rifle is not the love of your life, but just a tool you want to get more utility out of.
I once did this with a simgle shot Cooey. I had a set of Weaver rings, I found a pair of bases that came reasonably close to fitting the top of the Cooey.
Mount the scope in the rings, attached to the bases. Hold it on the rifle with rubber bands, take the bolt out of the rifle, set the rifle on something solid and see if looking through the bore comes close to where the scope is aimed.
With round files, shape the bases to where the scope and barrel line up, fairly close.
Sand or file the bluing off the rifle where the bases hit. You can later touch it up with cold blue.
When all is right, you cement the bases on the rifle with GB Weld epoxy.
Hold the scope to the rifle with rubber bands. The epoxy is slow drying, so you have lots of time to adjust the sighting of the scope. Remember, if you are aiming at a spot across a room, the scope has to be aimed a bit over an inch higher than where the barrel points.
It worked a 100 per cent with mine. I never babied it and eventually sold the outfit.
 
Awwww man, if you love your grandpa, don't mess with it.
Pea shooters are cheap now.
Go buy a new/used one and don't Buhbah this one if it's in
the shape you say it is.
Then you can pass it down to your next of kin.
 
many of the Cooeys were drilled and tapped from the factory to accept the sidemount scope bracket. No real harm can be done as it would be the same as a factory mount except not the original bracket. There are so many of these around that you can keep the gun as a keepsake and buy another that is perhaps D and T'ed already . but get a gunsmith to do it proper because if it gets messed up, it affects the value.
 
Those two scope mounting pieces, the side mount and the scope ring mount
will set you back close to sixty dollars. The cost of the four holes, maybe ten
to fifteen a piece.
With this amount, you are well on your way to a good used 22 with a dovetail
receiver and such.
Just a couple of .02.
 
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