I have a cooper model 38 in .17 fireball and I love it. Very accurate out to 350 yards or a touch more. Mine shoots the 20's and 25's great and it is easy to load accurate rounds. Mine even shoot factory ammo fairly well.

I hear ya..... This whole Cooper thing is cramping my style. I sold two guns to buy this 280AI and its driving me nutty that I can't order mine. And you know how long I have wanted a 280 ackley...... frustrated.

http://www.whittakerguns.com/ :wink: Whittaker has one 280AI in a 52 Classic and to be honest the owner pretty much talked me out of it because he said the wood was only so so. I asked him to take a photo and he said they have no way to do that. So, I have a friend in KY who is going to swing by th...

So I was pretty excited to find the Cooper I wanted on Gunbroker and I called to ask about it and they called me back Saturday when unfortunately I was tied up with my family. I called them back this morning 30 minutes after they opened and they had sold my dream rifle 10 minutes before I called. So...

Glenn - when you going to get out and shoot this thing????

Great pics Glenn -

So out of all 4 I belive rifles you brought (204's, .223 & a 221 fireball right?)

Which one was your go to gun?

Rick, Sorry to hear that they got you down and have been working on you. Glad to hear that you are coming around though. When I first read the first post about three surgeries my heart sunk as I know I don't know you other than a few posts but I also went down hard in February and almost bought the ...

Thanks - I had just prepped 100 cases and I loaded 50 of them with that 18.7/Benchmark/25GR load. I'll give them a try.

Don't know about the 204 but seeing that I own a Cooper in 17 Fireball I would like to learn about this 17 fireball experiment... Tell me what loads have worked well for you with the fireball please, sorry for the OT. I have been working up several loads just have not had a chance to get out and sho...

AK204 wrote:Big_Bullseye,

You hit a home run with that rifle! Simply outstanding! Beautiful . . .

Thanks - I'm rather fond of this one myself. I just love the wood, not overly fancy, just right.

I just bought the Sinclair with the BR top and I love it.

Wow you have it bad! List you model numbers and what caliber and tell us what your favorite is. No Phoenix in the group? Surprised.... I actually just put my Ruger #1V .204 up for sale to help fund a Cooper in 204 or 220 swift or maybe both...... I am very impressed with this gun, I shot it and wow ...

Rick - Looks nice and you have lots of stuff there. On the reloading dies I went ahead and bought 3 die sets for everything that I am going to reload which includes a full length resizing die as well as just a neck sizing die. I'm gonna hold off on the sheetrock as this house is going on the market ...

Cooper Model 38 Jackson Varminter Leupold VXL 6.5X20X56 Varmint Ret. http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c110/tbarringhaus/Coopercomplete5-28-2008001.jpg http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c110/tbarringhaus/Coopercomplete5-28-2008003.jpg http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c110/tbarringhaus/Coopercomplet...

Have you built or sequestered a bench yet? THE most important item in reloading. SOLID platform to work on. Actually, buy the chair that YOU like and can sit/move comfortably in, then make the bench the height that goes with the chair. Well I had an area in the basement with an old school desk that...