Restoring a Cooey Repeater

Major Sights, What determines if its a "ranger"? The length of the barrel? Mine is exactly like yours. What type of stain did you use? Minwax?
As for tung oil, where would a guy readily find it? I haven`t seen any.
I made a boo,boo....will I need to re-strip back to bare wood? I just used about 3 coats of boiled linseed oil, it did not turn out the way I wanted it...shiny. I then thought, I`m going to try to seal it and buff it with mothers car polish....didn`t work either. Maybe I should strip to the wood and stain like major sights did with the cherry if I can find this "tung oil"
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Can you guess what the tube holding the gun up is going to be???
 
darcy32171 said:
Major Sights, What determines if its a "ranger"? The length of the barrel? Mine is exactly like yours. What type of stain did you use? Minwax?
As for tung oil, where would a guy readily find it? I haven`t seen any.
I made a boo,boo....will I need to re-strip back to bare wood? I just used about 3 coats of boiled linseed oil, it did not turn out the way I wanted it...shiny. I then thought, I`m going to try to seal it and buff it with mothers car polish....didn`t work either. Maybe I should strip to the wood and stain like major sights did with the cherry if I can find this "tung oil"
cooey6_zps72f86f3b.jpg

Can you guess what the tube holding the gun up is going to be???
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Cooeys that are marked "Ranger" were stamped as such for stores...I'm pretty sure Ranger was for Sears. It's still a model 60. There's also "Eatonia" marked Cooeys too.
 
"Ranger" branded Cooeys were sold by Eatons. Sears liked to mark their stuff "J.C. Higgins"
If you put 3 coats of boiled linseed oil on it, you won't be able to strip it as the oil will have soaked in. You should be able to polish it up to a nice gloss.
"Ranger" branded 22s were also sold in the US but they weren't made by Cooey. They were altogether different and made by at least 2 different companies.
 
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