Just came across this thread.
The Cooey made it's way down here to the states. In the 1950's my dad bought a used Cooey single shot 12ga. The neighbor boys and I had a kicking shotgun contest going on for a few years. I put some 12ga. slugs in the warming oven above our wood fired cookstove and dried them for a few weeks. Don't know if they kicked harder but that spring loaded forend would come uncoupled when the Cooey fired those dried slugs. It sure gave 12, 13, 14 year old farm boys big eyes, grins, WOOWs and roaring laughter when she would fire and come apart. We all thought the Cooey was the kicking champ. Shot a few snowshoe rabbits with it but never did like shooting it. Named it Cooey Kicker. Think my dad gave it away sometime around 1957.
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