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I'm putting a scope on one for a friend today and I've never heard of this company, its made in Canada.Was this something marketed thru sears or eatons back in the 50's or 60's??
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North Americian Arms shows on some low cost single shot shotguns. Nothing wrong with them, just plainer guns.
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I need to correct the last post. With further thought, I was thinking of New England Arms.
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I googled them and can't find anything other than guys looking for clips for them
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I just came from having lunch with my daughter and sil. While there the sil showed me a 1960-61 Canadian Tire catalogue he purchased off the internet. In it I found an advertisement for both a NAACO shotgune and a .22 LR. The price tag on the latter was $18.95.
Seemed like a coincidence since I had just been reading about these guns on this thread.
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edit - reason - spelling
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I seem to recall they were a "store brand" made by Cooey but I can't document that. Just an old recollection I read somewhere many moons back.
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It looks more like the lakefield mossberg I had when I was in highschool. The little grizly .22 really shoots,I was suprised how good it shot
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Can't disagree there either. Sub contracted?
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Maby,it does say manufactured in canada.Did lakefield mossberg have a plant in canada?
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They were built in Ontario. Kitchener area I think.
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Next time I go down to his place I'll ask him if it says where exactly it was made,but I'm pretty sure it was an ontario city
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Rog, I have located you here. Tell us about the Kootenay. It sure sounds like a great place.
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Its pretty nice here alright,I come over here in 2000.The fishing was incredible I was like a kid in a candy store.Fished a different lake or creek every weekend.The hunting is pretty good too,though I gotta say for a primarily white tail hunter like myself you can't beat saskatchewan (where I grew up)Spent 4 years over in the okanagan boundry area too,its great there as well
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NAACO. Or North American Arms Co. was out of Toronto. I have a section of a barrel stamped with the company name and "GRIZZLY". I also have a cracked butt plate and bolt for it. It appears to have been cut up to "get a gun off the street".
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I have one that I have had since about 1962...I remember my Dad and I ordering it out of a catalogue, but can't remember which one...also still have the book and the parts list if that would help?
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I just noticed in the book that it lists as a feature "dovetail cuts made on receiver for attachment of telescope sights.
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The book also lists the address of North American Arms Company Ltd. as 1480 Birchmount Rd., Scarborough.
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I just noticed this thread when looking up the history for a NAACO Grizzly single shot .22 rimfire that I was about to sell at a local gun show next weekend. Of course no one there will have heard of NAACO.
I bought this rifle from NAACO directly in 1961 shortly after my militia unit organized a tour of their factory in Scarborough.
There I witnessed these rifles being made and blued and I liked the care they were taking during production.
Mine was a single shot with a Lyman adjustable rear aperture sight and a shrouded front sight that took Lyman inserts. They also made a box magazine version of the Grizzly.
My rifle was used for several years in the 60's for the Dominion Marksman program and I earned some nice patches.
But it is not comparable to modern rimfire target rifle competition where I use Anschutzes today.
Yes at age 74 I am still active in benchrest both rimfire and centerfire, as well as skeet.
The NAACO company had a catalog containing their rifles as well as rifle and pistol imports from Europe. IIRC, their inventory included Beretta and Star models.
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