Originally Posted by wabigoon
Thank you good friend Dwayne, Cooey is as Canadian as the maple leaf, pine trees, and Red Rose tea.

wabigoon;
Good evening to you my friend, I hope all is well with you and your fine family.

Of course you are most welcome and I'm glad you and some others here have enjoyed it.

Whilst I had to dig around in the memory banks to find this one, here's a sample of what was in the safe at one time.

The top one is a Model 60 - in very good shape internally and fed quite smoothly too as I recall. It's since gone onto a new home.

The second from the top is a very fine Model 39 from the era when the butt plate was still steel. I'm not sure how old that would be, but as a kid I don't recall any new ones with steel butt plates - they were all plastic by the late '60's so this one predated them. It went away on a trade.

The next one down is a "pass around" arm which I shortened the barrel on a 39 and a buddy shortened and trimmed up the stock from a 75. Our girls used it, then buddy's grand daughter, then another buddy's grand kids and finally it's with another friend teaching his kids to shoot. It is emphatically not for sale, but is something that I put together to loan out indefinitely as a training aid for the next shift of shooters.

Finally the bottom one is a very, very reworked 75 which used to have some semi-serious receiver sights on it, but then I traded into an ancient El Paso Target 8X with built in rings from Kesselrings I believe. I reworked the sear, built a new trigger, modified the bolt and installed a recoil lug of sorts - so I could epoxy bed the thing into the stock.

It actually shoots quite well from a good rest - as comerade said, it's a slowwww lock time on them. grin

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A good friend up the valley collects the shotguns and my goodness do we have fun finding pristine examples at the local shops and gun shows. As mentioned we're always on the hunt for a 28, but so far haven't even laid hands on one.

Lastly, in the dim recesses of my mind I know I've worked on at least one Cooey center fire rifle - likely an '06 - and no, it's not exactly a Model 70 as I recall it.

Anyway thanks for looking and for letting me walk down some very pleasant lanes in my memory.

Dwayne

The most important stuff in life isn't "stuff"