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wabigoon;
Good evening to you my friend, I trust this finds you and yours well tonight.

Off the top of my head I believe I've owned at least two of them in 12 gauge and have shot several others in 20 and .410.

They likely made a 16 too, though I can't verify that this evening by memory.

As far as I know the shotguns were well enough made to go bang when asked to do so. Not fancy at all, but certainly reliable tools in my experience.

Hopefully that was some use to you or someone out there in ether space tonight wabigoon.

All the best to you folks this Fourth of July.

Dwayne

They were made in 12 ,16 , 20 , 28 , 410 .
The later 12s were made in 3" . I'm not sure if there was a 3" 20 but I expect there was .
At one time it was quite common to find a Cooey .22 or 12 ga behind the door of many barns .Rusty but serviceable .
My first gun was a 410 which I still have .My current turkey gun is a 12 ga 3" that I added a limbsaver and choke tube to .
I know several people that got one for Christmas .
The but stocks are narrow .We had to grind quite a bit off the smallest pad available to make it fit .

Glenn

My goodness! You mean to say you don't have a Cooey shotgun?!?

They are a good, reliable, simple piece of Canadiana if there ever was one. The 12ga. can give a nasty kick if you are using high power shells.

There are still some nice ones showing up at gun shows. My buddy and I buy and sell at shows, and we sell every one we manage to get our hands on. Although the naysayers will claim they have little monetary value and little or no collector interest, ask a dealer at the next show if he has any trouble selling Cooey anything.

Heck, I even ended up with a Cooey card table and four chairs! I kid you not!

So, what does a nice Cooey 84 go for?

A nice one, few scratches, reasonable bluing, original will sell for $150. Most go for $100-125.

Cooey84 was upgraded to a model 840 and was also sold as a Winchester 37

I have one now that I'm restoring, picked up at the family farm in Saskatchewan. It's been hanging in the front hallway with a 22 Cooey for years now. The only thing that would also have been there but I acquired it a few years earlier was a half stock Enfield that I also restored.
I say restored because to many farmers guns were just tools and many were neglected when they moved off the farm.
As far as reliability and simplicity, Nothing is more reliable and simple than a Cooey shotgun. It will fire any ammo that can be stuffed or forced into it. (including old paper ammo that would make any semi auto or pump gag)

Good morning Gents.

I was just cruising the forums this morning and found this conversation. If the Cooey 84 is a single shot breakdown with a hammer, I have one in Kentucky. My Dad bought it for me on my 12th birthday. 30" full choke and one fine shotgun. Over the next 5 years i brought down many of game and I couldn't guess how many clay pigeons. I could stay up with a lot of nicer shotguns but no better. I DID HAVE TO PUT ON A RECOIL PAD. It still resides by my best. Good memories!

Thanks

My Dad bought me a Cooey 840 in 28 gauge about 50 years ago for christmas. Still got it; first new gun i ever got. shot a lot of partridge and a few woodcock and ducks. Simpler times better days; I'll never sell it my best christmas present.

Doc

have an early model Cooey 84 in .410 with a firing pin that is giving me problems and hanging up when go to break the shotgun open.
this shotgun does not have a screw in the side of the receiver that holds the firing pin in line. there is nothing there the pin just floats around without any screw or machined hole.
the shotgun does fire but doesn't break open all the time and have to rattle the gun around to get the firing pin to slide back into the housing and clear the extractor.
any ideas on this firing pin style for only see images of the later style represented online with the screw present and the hole being machined to accommodate the screw.
Here's some photos to help show [img]https://photos.app.goo.gl/stEZ2QnJQyykbNHA9[/img]
thanks Keith
nova scotia
canada

Tagged out early last week at the deer camp, so the Cooey 20ga went into action after that.

Cool Paul, I did get a Cooey bought at a show in Dryden a couple years back.

Have a 16. Piece of Canadian history. There is something about single shots.

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.

There are a whole bunch of variations, mostly involving a store brand. I have a Cooey 84 "Hiawatha" and a Cooey "Sureshot", both 12 ga. There are more, but I don't know the names. My shooter buddy has a real nice 84 in 28 ga. Cooey 84 and 840 .410's are nice little shotguns.

The Winchester Model 37 is an entirely different shotgun. I have both, 84's and a nice old 37.

There's enough variations to interest collectors up here in Canada.

an update on my Cooey 84 in .410 which was sticking when trying to open. the barrel would break but not fully open up and not all the time
turned out it wasn't the firing pin sticking on the extractor it was the drift pin that holds the extractor mechanism which had loosened up ever so slightly to slide proud and hang up on the side of the action. Noticed a fine scratch on the receiver side and realized the issue and peened the drift pin tight and filed smooth
on the plus side have one very clean action and firing pin now.