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darcy32171 said:
I have 10 federal 525 bulk packs waiting for gopher season lmao
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Your in sask right? I just went out yesterday afternoon with a 223 to see if I could call a coyote or two and didn't get to my spot to call before I ran out of bullets. There are gophers everywhere popping up through the snow. Because there is so much snow, they are super easy to see. By the time I was done, the snow in the pasture was painted red. It was one of the best times shooting gophers ive ever had.
 
I'll agree that cheap guns can be a hoot and quite accurate. My norinco .22lr that looks like a Mauser is reasonably accurate. IE, I can hit what I am aiming at.

But, that said, its no way in the same league as something made for accuracy.

Good for you for getting the old cooey up and running again tho, nice job.
 
darcy32171 said:
Just thought I would throw this out there. Most already know this. A while back I purchased a couple old 22`s. One was a Cooey Model 60 and the other was a Cooey Model 39. The poor old 39 was missing its bolt and needed a good cleaning. Because of a great CGN`er that went out of his way to make a purchase for me and send me a bolt, it is up and running!!!!
Now to explain my topic heading: A person can go out and spend anywhere from $200+ for a 22, then find a scope and whatever other accessory. Yet, these old gals perform just as good! At noon today I received the Model 39 bolt, I immediately put it in and ran out of the city to try it....at 80 yards I was hitting a 5x8" metal sign....not shabby at all for its first outing and likely its first feeding of lead in a very very long time.
Does a person really need to spend high dollar to find a really accurate shooter? Ummm, I just answered this for myself...."NO".
I can`t believer for a Mass produced cheap gun in its day, they are really really nice shooters to this day! Remember guys: "recycle...you might be surprised". Darcy
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It depends on what you consider equal as far as performance. A model 39 is in no way equal to new production bolt gun with a synthetic stock and optic, and couldn't on its best day come anywhere near a semi with glass. For starters, wood stocks are crap when compared to a synthetic, period. If you don't understand this then you need to research the benefits of a synthetic stock. Second, iron sights are very limited in effective range especially with rimfire. The majority of targets you're engaging with a rimfire are small(gophers and the like) so acceptable precision with large dull iron sights is limited to short range. Follow up shots are non existent with single shot guns, and time consuming with a repeater. The triggers on older guns are heavy and long and generally difficult to change.

TDC
 
I think it's awesome you revived an old gun and got to shoot it. I have a 10/22 a little bit prettied up which don't get me wrong is a LOT of fun and all my friends enjoy shooting it. I however prefer to use my Cooey 600 with a Simmons 3-9 on it. It took some time to fix up but it has been nothing but awesome. I have not once had a failure to feed or eject, and the bolt always runs nice and smooth even in cold weather. With a rest I can pretty consistently smack gophers out to 75 which is all I need it to do. 100's I'll hit them if I can get the drop and wind right, I'm just using rem game loads so I don't expect insane accuracy, but I don't need it. Once they start to get far enough that it's taking me 2 - 3 hits to connect I'll switch to the .204 and vaporize the phuck out of them.
 
To each their own....my whole family has a fleet of 10/22`s. I bought one in Feb 2013 and sold it a week ago cause I like the feel of the old ones better.
Are iron sights no good? wrong....I have an old Lakefield Mossberg bolt action repeater mark 2. That thing is dead accurate out to 100 yards all day long.
Talking about Synthetic and running glass, etc:
this girl comes out to play when I get sick of shooting gophers with a rimfire...
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And it does a pretty good job of it if I say so myself!!!
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So with these pics, yes I know what synthetic and glass is all about, but its a whole different ball game then what I`m talking about. You take the year my cooey 39 was made and find me a synthetic in the same year...don`t think so.
 
Hey Darcy I have its brother. Mine looks a little rougher though. Its still performs well in the right hands. Mine has RANGER stamped on it but it looks almost identical.
 
I have a stack on cabinet that is dedicated to these cheap old plinkers. I laugh when I see someone asking for 200 dollars for an old cooey .. I really don't know if I have ever paid over 50 for one.

Great shooters, excellent "loaner" guns
 
tigrr said:
Hey Darcy I have its brother. Mine looks a little rougher though. Its still performs well in the right hands. Mine has RANGER stamped on it but it looks almost identical.
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Cool. Actually I seen a pic of a "ranger" from someone on here. I was going to ask about it since it looks so much like mine.
What were the differences?
 
Cooeys were work horses. The single shots are hard to load with my large and arthritic hands and fingers. Triggers suck and they have to be cocked after loading. Having said that they cannot compare to say a CZ452 for ease of use and accuracy. BUT they are not in that league and never were intended to be. I like and own a Cooey single 16 gauge but the rim fires don't do it for me. I prefer my 100.00 Trade Ex Husky single. I find it easy to load, cocks on closing, beautiful beech wood stock, sling swivels, decent trigger and ACCURATE. You get all these features for alot less than the Cooey mania going on in the EE.

Darryl
 
Many of those old Cooey 22's were quite accurate.

Had several over the years, and while a bit less than refined, they do the job!

I have been stricken with Mossberg-itis, so am not collecting Cooeys at present. :)

Enjoy! Nice to resurrect one of those old gems.

Eagleye.
 
What I like to use is: I have 4 boxes of those "sealer jar lids", I just use those little hobby grippers(what ever you may call them) and I attach on any barbed wire fence. They work great and not hard to see cause of the reflective gold color.
 
darcy32171 said:
What I like to use is: I have 4 boxes of those "sealer jar lids", I just use those little hobby grippers(what ever you may call them) and I attach on any barbed wire fence. They work great and not hard to see cause of the reflective gold color.
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Problem is with that who fixes the barb wire when a bullet breaks a strand? And the .22 can cut them cleaner than a whistle. Found that out after breaking my own fence a couple of times.
 
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