Price Check on BNIB 60s vintage Cooey single shot

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A co-worker just told me that he has a BNIB unfired,in original packing grease Cooey single shot .22lr bolt action rifle. He said its made in Cobourg Ontario and its from the 60s..
He purchased it 10 years ago from a family of someone that owned a sporting goods store in Toronto. Whe the guy retired he just shut the doors and the firearms and sporting goods sat in storage until he passed.
Id like to scoop it up but the seller is asking $250 for it. Is that a good price? I haven't seen it yet but I have first rights to purchase it. Does a Cooey have any collectors value in this condition? I need another .22 like I need a hole in the head.
 
I have paid near that a few years ago for new in box. So if you want it as a collector I would buy it. If your intent is to shoot it then you have just lowered the value so, as already mentioned, you might as well buy a used one if you plan on shooting it.
As a side note, I just communicated with Cooey's granddaughter a couple of days ago. There is going to be some type of Cooey display this summer in Cobourg and hopefully a permanent display will come out of it.
 
A piece of Canadian history new in box.
Seems like a no brainer
Buy it but never shoot it.

I for one would jump at the chance. I mean; when are you ever going to find another cooey new in box?
The answer is "never"

Shoot straight and Merry Christmas -- chrisco
 
I agree that I should buy it. It's like going back in time and being able to buy your first hockey stick over again with Canadian Tire money.
I will post some pictures of it when I get it..Merry Christmas to all. .
 
i would buy it and shoot it. They are never going to be worth a fortune. If you loose $100 dollars after the first shot who cares. Its still worth $150 all day long for a mint condition gun. A beater gun is worth $100 or so. My first gun was a single shot 75 model average condition for $100 . shoots like a dream.
 
I bought my Cooey single shot .22 Deluxe version (rabbit carving) just about 50 years ago at Cambodian Tire and brought it home on my bicycle. It was around $20 but it took me a lot of effort to save up enough to be able to buy it. The first day I had it out shooting the firing pin broke and it was like a many months wait when CT sent out for repair.

Back then a kid could buy .22 ammo at a local variety store.
 
welder01 said:
i would buy it and shoot it. They are never going to be worth a fortune. If you loose $100 dollars after the first shot who cares. Its still worth $150 all day long for a mint condition gun. A beater gun is worth $100 or so. My first gun was a single shot 75 model average condition for $100 . shoots like a dream.
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It won't go down in value either but it will if you shoot it and keep on shooting it. As already mentioned several times, there are plenty of used ones out there to buy at a cheaper price if you just want a shooter. Original Cooeys new in box before the Winchester take over are not very plentiful. Why the need to shoot it when there are many others to choose from. Is it just to say I shoot all my guns? If so, then obviously collection pieces aren't important and that isn't where a gun like this should be going. Down the line it might be worth $150.00 all day long as a shooter in mint condition but I'd sooner have $300.00 all day long. It only takes 1 collector to pay what the asking price might be at some point down the line for a NIB example. One thing for certain is that it will be lumped in with the rest of the used examples once it's fired.
I don't really get the sentiment "it's just a Cooey". Believe it or not, Cooey was a Canadian firearms icon. Sure there were many produced of certain models during the 50's and 60's. So what! There were also models from other firearm's makers be it Winchester, Marlin or Remington etc who produced greater numbers of a given model. There were also many early Cooeys before the 1950's that were not produced in large numbers. If you read up on the Cooey history you'll find he did what many other firearms manufactures could not do back in the day and still stay in business. So there are particular Cooeys that are worthy of preserving instead of just being looked at as "just another old Cooey". Back in the day, there were many who were very grateful for having just another old Cooey.
 
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