The Cooey Make-Over Thread

First off let me say great thread...very informative and inspiring.

Now for my two cents worth...what's all this talk of "pine" gunstocks? Just because it's blonde don't make it pine. Only "bubba" would ever hack out a stock from pine! On this side of the pond the alternative stock woods are birch and maple. In Europe beech was more common, and you'll find it on many a milsurp rifle. Custom stockmakers may well be inclined to use other species and I've no doubt some of the exotics would make excellent stocks but when discussing the products of the big name manufacturers those "white wood" stocks are most definitely NOT pine.

There...I feel better now.
 
It's two random short pieces of rail I had kicking around. At first I had a red dot on it, so only had the front rail section. When I decided to use the scope I needed to add the rear section. The front section uses epoxy and the rear iron sight screw, the rear section is epoxied on. Just call me bubba :p. It actually worked out because the receiver is slightly higher than the barrel and the two pieces of rail were different thicknesses that ended up being flush with each other when mounted.

I have a long section section of rail that I will replace the two pieces with in the future, but need access to a mill first to thin it out to keep the scope as low to the bore as possible. Will probably also make a notch to allow easier feeding of rounds with gloves on. Currently it's fine with bare hands although someone with large fingers might find the rail gets in the way.
 
beautiful gun I have one the same. great accuracy. I did a camo wrap on mine. looking to buy a set of side mouts now for my Winchester scope
 
Question for the restorers here. I have a cooey 60 I'm 'restoring'. The bolt has some mild greyish discolouration, and the two parts where there's hand contact (back of the bolt, and the round ball lever arm) are a dark brown. I put the bore bright to it but didn't help. Is there a way to get the bolt back to a shiny steel/silver colour again?
 
Finally got my dads rifle out to the range, reset the front blade by looking through the bore at something 20 feet away, got a ramp for it finally to replace the one by dad lost probably 50 years ago lol.
First 4 rounds threw it were perfectly in line with the target at 50 yards. The Ramp is screwy, only the bottom two notches are even on the target at 50 yards, I was thinking of filing down the bottom of the ramp, but how often will I want to fire it at more then 50 yards anyway? So I will leave it, still a shooter for sure and very happy with it all rebuilt.
 
There are a lot of kits and add ons for 10/22's are there any for the Cooey, Lakefield, Savage 64's. There must be millions of these guns around someone must have tried to make a ask or a bull pup stock for them, or is it illegal ?
 
waterwheel said:
Question for the restorers here. I have a cooey 60 I'm 'restoring'. The bolt has some mild greyish discolouration, and the two parts where there's hand contact (back of the bolt, and the round ball lever arm) are a dark brown. I put the bore bright to it but didn't help. Is there a way to get the bolt back to a shiny steel/silver colour again?
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I missed this... I used a buffing wheel with different grit compounds on it. Came out like mirror although I'll bet it wasn't sold that way. I then rubbed in oil to try and keep rust away.
 
Capecrusader said:
There are a lot of kits and add ons for 10/22's are there any for the Cooey, Lakefield, Savage 64's. There must be millions of these guns around someone must have tried to make a ask or a bull pup stock for them, or is it illegal ?
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If its semi auto, and the gun can fire with the stock removed, a bullpup stock is prohibited in Canada. For a bullpup to be legal here, it either must be pump, bolt action, or if its semi auto, does not have a traditional style stock version, and cannot fire without the firearm/fully assembled.

This explains why say the Tavor and Type97 are legal here...but bullpup stocks for the Rem 870, Soviet SKS and Ruger 10/22 are prohibited in Canada. Its pretty dumb...but AFAIK that's the way it works.
 
RickR1100 said:
If its semi auto, and the gun can fire with the stock removed, a bullpup stock is prohibited in Canada. For a bullpup to be legal here, it either must be pump, bolt action, or if its semi auto, does not have a traditional style stock version, and cannot fire without the firearm/fully assembled.

This explains why say the Tavor and Type97 are legal here...but bullpup stocks for the Rem 870, Soviet SKS and Ruger 10/22 are prohibited in Canada. Its pretty dumb...but AFAIK that's the way it works.
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Semi-auto has nothing to do with it. If you build a stock that converts an existing firearm into a bullpup firearm, that stock is a prohibited device. The reason why the Tavor, RFB, T97, KSG, M17S and others are non-restricted is because they do not have a removable stock, as the action itself comprises what would be the stock on a conventional firearm. Removing the "stock" on the aforementioned firearms results in the firearm becoming completely inoperable at best or being a pile of parts at worst. I can't disagree that the entire premise is pointless and irrelevant, but it is what it is.
 
The ONE thing that I would keep from that build is the barrel sleeve. I found an aluminum sleeve that fit perfectly over the barrel, and then I "fluted" it with a ballend mill. I wish I had pics of that gun earlier. That particular Cooey went through several incarnations, and I liked an earlier one better.
 
So I was talking to a friend about wanting a bolt action to work on over the winter and he said he had one for me that he didn't want. I thought cool.....free bolt action!

When I first took it home I did some research and found that it is a Cooey 600. So I did some searches for pictures and I realized that mine didn't look quite the same, mine had
a terrible finish on it and it was missing the carved image of the rabbit.

Being that this was a project and that the gun was made in Canada I told my dad (who is a highly skilled carpenter) that we just had to do this gun justice.

here are some pictures of what it looked like when I got it.





As you can see it was in bad shape :( When I started to strip the stock I uncovered that the stock had been sanded with a belt sander and that there was some nasty marks on the wood.

Seeing that this gun was one of my wife's favorite to shoot, I thought I would get her input on it and asked her what she would like carved in place where the rabbit was. She gave me this image of a wild rose.



Taking her idea I came up with a design, and my dad then spent some time carving and sanding the design on the stock.





Thankfully the checkering on the fore-stock was in good shape so I left that as is.

Next was the color of the stain and I wanted a reddish colour. We decided that it would look nice in cordovan and here is the finished rifle.




My wife absolutely loves how this turned out and cant wait to take it out for some plinking.

For me, it was a chance to take something that was not wanted, and turn it into a beautiful piece of art. This will forever be a reminder of something that was made in Canada and of my father who I love very much.
 
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