COOEY RIFLES & ACCESSORIES
in British WWII Service
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The Canadian Cooey Company provided a number of their products to Britain during the Second World War (1939-1945)
With British war production most importantly involved with the urgent manufacture of full-bore service weapons, the training requirements were necessarily often fulfilled from abroad, and many rifles for training and other purposes were purchased from North American manufacturers.
One of the rifles from Canada most commonly imported and issued was the Model 82 . 22RF training rifle, in common with the U.S. made Mossberg Model 42 equivalents and the later Mossberg Model 44US. The rifle was initially designed for issue to the cadets of the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force.
The rifle was intended as an emulation of the Lee-Enfield Rifle No.4,
the then current general service rifle of British and Canadian forces.
The Canadian military's manual for the rifle gave users information and specification details.
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Below: the receiver markings.
And the serial number with additional printed label.
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Not believed to be a modification undertaken in Britain, the Canadian Army utilised defunct and otherwise condemned Model 82 rifles as drill arms for the Cadet Corps, similar to the British "DP" (Drill Purpose) rifles, instructions being issued for the removal of the bolt and addition of a hardwood satin-black painted false magazine.
This was to be screwed in place onto the furniture beneath the rifle's receiever; thus a purely cosmetic component.
The first issue of the instruction was on 6th. April 1945.
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RIFLE, CAL, 22, C281, WITHOUT BOLT |
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(FORMERLY RIFLES, COOEY PATTERN .22-IN) |
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Miscellaneous Instruction |
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Figure 1 — Stores Required |
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Figure 2 — Stores Removed |
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Issue 2 - 1 Nov 63 RESTRICTED |
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Supersedes Issue 1; changes marked (*) Page 1 |
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DEME 89837 * Figure .3 — Detail of Dummy Magazine |
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Other Cooey .22s purchased were the Cooey Models 39 and 75 single-shot rifles, and the tube-magazine-fed Model 60. These were bought under contract and lend-lease arrangements similar to those used for the acquisition of Winchester and Savage along with the already mentioned Mossberg rimfire rifles variously used in training or sub-calibre rôles.
The Model 39
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The Model 60
The Model 75
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