Restoring a Cooey Repeater

Mine is the original too .
Accuracy is better than my 10/22 , when shooting LR .
Tus far I've only shot out to 50 as my eyes can only handle that far and I need a scope mount for it to put my scope on .

I restored the wood and it is a lovely little rifle . Bought it off a member here . Hard to find better value for a total investment of $150 !
 
My restoration Cooey Ranger project turned out well, the accuracy was a palm size group at 50ish meters with .22 short, and got dramatically better with LR. Granted I am using Ruger 10/22 sights, had to retrofit the gun to take em.

Before:
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After:
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These were the .22 shorts:
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Surprisingly accurate Tony.
I bought one off here as well.
Cleaned her all up nice and purrrrdy.
My eyes don't do open sights as well so
on went a side mount.
Could very well be a chicken plucker.
Under tube magazine makes for slow going
if you are beat'in the bush with wheels.
Post sum targets when ya dun gitt'er all dun.
 
I love my .22's, and have a very healthy respect for Cooeys. They were affordable, utilitarian guns in their day...they can shoot! I have a nice example of the "Cooey repeating .22" in my safe. It was made between '31, and '39 (like all of 'em). No provision for side scope on mine. Open sights, or tap 'em. No trigger return spring on them, so the trigger may feel floppy when not cocked, but that's by design, and not a flaw. You should have no troubles producing clover leafs if the bore is ok.
 
i rebuild my 600 and my 410 at the same time. i saw on a few tread here that 60/600 prefer standard velocity 22lr ammo. i curently shoot federal bulk 22lr and if i remember correctly, they are high velocity. i didn't get the chance to shoot more then 40 yards but it's under 3 square inch. a nice shooter.
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My Repeater has a seat for a spring in the receiver. Looks like you need a new trigger guard, dr-snake. :)

Very nice job Major Sights! :)

I'm not sure if HV ammo is that big of an issue. I would think that copper electroplated bullets would feed better through the magazine. What are your thoughts. . .
 
I've shot blazers , wildcats , federal , federal bulk longs , and Winchester shorties in mine .
In about 700 rounds , not one glitch .

I wish I could figure out this picture posting thingy because I tung oiled it about 8 times and it is a really lovely stock . Looks just like Major sights before and after pics . I actually put like three coats of old English lemon oil on before I picked up the tung oil . Yes , I mean the furniture stuff from my grocery store lol . It's all I could find at the time .

You will certainly enjoy the finished product as they are very handsome guns .
 
kamlooky said:
Surprisingly accurate Tony.
I bought one off here as well.
Cleaned her all up nice and purrrrdy.
My eyes don't do open sights as well so
on went a side mount.
Could very well be a chicken plucker.
Under tube magazine makes for slow going
if you are beat'in the bush with wheels.
Post sum targets when ya dun gitt'er all dun.
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Kamlooky, I am wondering if the previous owner was carrying his crosswise on a Quad and fetched up the forend on a branch or someting. Could explain the badly splintered forend. Oh the humanity! :(
 
fat tony said:
Kamlooky, I am wondering if the previous owner was carrying his crosswise on a Quad and fetched up the forend on a branch or someting. Could explain the badly splintered forend. Oh the humanity! :(
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The stocks on these are a slightly different shape than the later 60's...look inside. Inletted by hand! Pistol grip/palm swell a touch different n' fore stock a touch thinner.... Mine came in a terribly busted stock too (complete with 50+ year old tape).
 
camster said:
The stocks on these are a slightly different shape than the later 60's...look inside. Inletted by hand! Pistol grip/palm swell a touch different n' fore stock a touch thinner.... Mine came in a terribly busted stock too (complete with 50+ year old tape).
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I noticed that when I restored mine . I was looking at it thinking " holy cow , that's not done on a machine ! "
I'm lucky my stock was close to perfect once stripped of all that ancient varnish .
Is it hard to find the stocks for these ? I would think thee are a few out there given how many of the guns were in circulation .
 
Dagmaar said:
I noticed that when I restored mine . I was looking at it thinking " holy cow , that's not done on a machine ! "
I'm lucky my stock was close to perfect once stripped of all that ancient varnish .
Is it hard to find the stocks for these ? I would think thee are a few out there given how many of the guns were in circulation .
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Your gun is the first model Cooey repeater which predated the model 60. It came out somewhere around 1934. There is also the Cooey "special repeater" if you can come across one. It had factory hand checkering which Cooey did very little of. There was also a Cooey "special" single shot that had hand checkering. It is not easy to find just a stock, especially a decent one for the early repeaters. You can find complete guns which of many are in rough shape. Many of these early models have "vanished" to the great gun scrapyard in the sky.
 
^ I have a beat up model 75 that has a huge gap (about 1/16" or so) behind the locking lug when you push the forward part of the bolt all the way forward with a dummy round in the chamber.

I need to spot weld some material to the reciever and file it back to take care of that issue. That is a task for another day, maybe if there is some spare time on Xmas break or something like that.
 
Love my Model 60. Has the old B4 scope and everything. I dunno about you boys, but the Model 60 looks to me like a rifle that was built to get #### done.

Partridge for dinner? Done.

Emergency canoe paddle? No problem.
 
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