Pulled out the old Cooey .22, the local shop had cheap American Eagle ammo on sale for $5 for a 500 brick. $20 later, I have more ammo in my basement than the Canadian army! Good times are coming soon!

Hey, does anyone else have an old Cooey? Is this stuff cool to shoot in an old gun?

Mikey, I'm not familiar with the Cooey, do you happen to know when it was built? Bolt action? Some pistols are not amenable to HV ammo but I've not heard of this in regards rifles.

Dan

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I'm pretty confident in the rifle, it's a Cooey bolt action rifle, it has a tubular magazine in the bottom. It has absolutely no markings on it whatsoever (apparently no Cooey had serial numbers). Just wodering if anyone had more information on it.

The Cooey was a good old rifle built in Canada, back at least to the fifties. They also built shotguns and a few other hunting rifles which i can't recall. I and probably nearly every kid in the country started with a Cooey bolt action singleshot .22 .....the lucky or richer kids had Cooey bolt action repeaters with a 12 round tube mag.
I believe Cooey even made some semi autos in the late sixties.
Some of the older ones had some issues with bolt lockup, due mostly to lack of regular cleaning and the old greased "Imperial" .22 rounds.
It will happily shoot any .22 rimfire round made, mine sure does.
The one i know i would stay away from is the old "Gevarm" .22 semiauto, inacurate trash it was!

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Originally posted by hound:
The Cooey was a good old rifle built in Canada, back at least to the fifties. They also built shotguns and a few other hunting rifles which i can't recall. I and probably nearly every kid in the country started with a Cooey bolt action singleshot .22 .....the lucky or richer kids had Cooey bolt action repeaters with a 12 round tube mag.
I believe Cooey even made some semi autos in the late sixties.
Some of the older ones had some issues with bolt lockup, due mostly to lack of regular cleaning and the old greased "Imperial" .22 rounds.
It will happily shoot any .22 rimfire round made, mine sure does.
The one i know i would stay away from is the old "Gevarm" .22 semiauto, inacurate trash it was!

Thanks for the info! This thing is pretty old and I am tempted to sand and refinish the stock and reblue the metalwork. My brother in law gave it to me as he does not have a firearms license, it is a bolt action and as the tubular magazine under the barrel. Action seems smooth, could probably use a good cleaning and degreasing. I have a nephew turning 12 this March and figured "it's time". Uncle's priviledge .

Winchester made quite a few of those Cooeys as well. I still have a 12ga single. derf

Well there ya go. Another mystery solved by the collective wisdom of the Crat Whacker Local, AR Chapter. And it's a rich kids gun to boot! Nice legend to start with, hope you enjoy it!

Lots of folks built guns without serial number back it the old days, I have a 50s vintage Remmy pump without a number, and it shoot minute of crat skull even now. Load up once and 27 crats later...you start all over. And in regards your project, I had the pleasure of restoring a Winchester 69B a few years back. It had been left on a boat down in Miami too long with no care. Gun was free, barrel replaced at $35.00, plus $15.00 for installation and blueing on the action after I'd polished it up a bit. Giving it back to the son of the fella that gave it to me...priceless. I'd spent a fair time on the stock as it was an unusally nice piece of wood, and in the aftermath the darn thing shot like a house afire! Well, 12 years have passed and it is as if I just finished the job yesterday. There are users, and their are connoisseurs. Genetic mutations are sometimes good.

Dan

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Where is Winnipeg, MB?

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Originally posted by N. S. Sherlock:
Where is Winnipeg, MB?

In the middle of Manitoba, Canada: 100km East of Portage la Prairie...

jpb

Ned, it is more or less straight north of North Dakota. Winterpeg as we call it is where I was hatched and grew to hunter status! That often frozen city is the 4th largest in Canada and situated where the Red River and Assiniboine Rivers join to form a new and deadly park.
It is the capitol of Manitoba and the centre for some great hunting and fishing. derf
ps; NO, I do not miss it!

I hates dis new country! I be here 2 week and already some DP take my job! I tink i go back to vinnpeg