My first shotgun was a Cooey single shot 12 bore that I stole from Pop. He bought me a Winchester pump and I used it for a couple years but went back to the single. I love it because it swings like a dream, it's dirt simple and most of all... because it was Dad's. I still have it. It has to be closing on 100 years old, I should think.
Everyone out this way had a Cooey somewhere or other. My father in law had the best single shot Cooey .22. Without a word of a lie that thing could drive tacks. He gave it to his retarded idiot of a son who stored the thing in a home made wool blanket and forgot it in the basement.... and the rust put an end to it. I swear, had I gotten the opportunity - that little bugger would have shot circles around my CZ.
I have seen the weirdos and beardos in The Backwoodsman and they'll chop these single shots right down and that's the gun they subsist on. Birdshot for the chickens and fowl, slugs for the bigger critters. And - they are just as happy with them as I am with an over stuffed gun safe.
Never had a Cooey, though I don't live that far from Canada. I do have a couple of Winchester 37A's that were made there. Were they made by Cooey?
ReplyDeleteI had a couple H&R's from the early teens. Toppers. One was a Long Tom 12. You could touch a duck on the butt when it was flying over head. Usually had to wait a week to ten days to take a shot. That full choke made a mess if you shot too quick.
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