I last handled a Cooper about ten years ago. If we add a decade of inflation to that $800 perhaps I'm not so far off even today. Then too, Coopers may have greatly improved over that time. I'll yield to folks with more current appraisals.
Someone else must have greatly improved ones, Of the 2 i've had the first a .17 HMR had a fail to fire problem, as in NO firing pin protrusion. I really wonder where the test target for this one came from.
The second a 6.5 Creedmoor has a chamber so rough that some of the factory Hornady ammo will not chamber.
That's $6000.00 spent and not a winner in sight, don't think i will be buying any more Poopers.
I supposed that the firing pin could have broken,either from a defective pin or perhaps it was a tad long and broke from dryfiring. I have spent quite a bit of time at the Cooper facility and I can assure you that every rifle is testfired prior to being shipped. If it had a broken firing pin it either happened on the last shot at the factory or after it left the factory.
re: 6.5 Creedmore - your statement implies that some of the factory ammo will not chamber, reading between the lines this means that some of it did. So, was the problem the Cooper's chamber or the factory ammo? Was there an effort made to determine which was at fault.
Any company can turn out a product with a problem from time to time, the real test is how they handle taking care of it. Was the company given a chance to perform warranty work on them.
Just curious, I have owned over a dozen Coopers with nary a problem, and yet you got two bad ones in a row. What are the odds of that?
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