nylon66

Only bad experience I had with mine, is when I sold it! Small, light and accurate enough. Why do they stop making all the good stuff?
 
I have had one for 51 years now. The only bad issue I ever had with it was running out of bullets.........Being a tube feed rifle it does not reload as fast as a magazine fed models do. It has been every where at times and has stood up to lots of use and travel over those years. It still shoots the same as it did back then.
 
Very fun rifles, unique rifles. Quite accurate and reliable. Not best for optics, but otherwise fantastic gems. Sought after by shooters n' collectors alike. I've had a few 66's, and a 77. I would never turn my nose up at one.

Important bit of trivia: Remove the charging handle when shipping...
 
No experience but I've wanted one since I first spied one at Woolco while with my grandmother. That had to be around 1974-5 and it was $88.88 I think. Now I see them everywhere and pushing the $275 mark! cute little gun and nostalgia is a bugger but, no way in hell am I paying that much for a middle of the road gun.......just for nostalgia's sake!
 
MC One Shot said:
I have had one for 51 years now. The only bad issue I ever had with it was running out of bullets.........Being a tube feed rifle it does not reload as fast as a magazine fed models do. It has been every where at times and has stood up to lots of use and travel over those years. It still shoots the same as it did back then.
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super7 said:
Tube fed 66's are incredibly fast to load...much faster than a mag.
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and can be done with mitts on
 
Important bit of trivia: Remove the charging handle when shipping...
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Damn' straight! Sent mine (green) back to Remington when it got knocked over and the operating handle (plastic) got broken off. they replaced it with a brand new (brown) rifle. The brown one I lent to a guy who let it fall over on a chainsaw which chewed up the left side fore end. Sent it back to Remington and got a new (green) rifle back. These guns were way too good to be legal, as was the technical support.
 
Love mine. $20 from a co-worker. Bought site unseen but best buy in ages.

It was given to him and he never even cleaned it. Stowed it away. Didn't need it.

I bought it after he offered it for $20 because I'd buy almost any gun for $20.

Great bargain. 1000's of rounds through it. Accurate, light, and almost fail proof.

This link gives the history. ( I think. There must be some reason I marked the link)

http://nylonrifles.com/NylonRifles/Articles/Articles.html

Mine is the Apache Black Chrome
 
Awesome gun, I got mine 29 years ago and it works like it was new. Very accurate. Taken a lot of rabbits with it and so has my son. I'll never sell it.

The only down side is changing the stock or a complete dis-assembly. It is tricky but not impossible to re-assemble.
 
Had 2 over the years, an apache, and a blued model when i was a kid. very reliable, accurate enough for a semi, and light to carry, somewhere around 4 lbs if i recall. had 1 scoped and it wouldn't hold zero, best to use irons with them imho. hope this helps!
 
Have had mine for well over 50 years, got it for Christmas the first year of production. Great in all weather, accuracy is decent and a fun shooter.
 
Thought I'd replace mine with a Ruger 10/22. Haven't got rid of it yet.

FWIW, a guy using a rack of Nylon 66s hit 100,004 of 100,010 2¼" wooden blocks tossed into the air. Some have tried to minimize that on terms of distance and trajectory, but I'd like to see them try duplicating it.
 
They are a great gun for what they were intended to do. Similar to the most basic 10/22, plinker extrodinare.

We have a couple, tube and mag fed, and a Model 76 lever action.
 
As camster mentioned, the cocking handles can be broken - must have been common, because aftermarket ones have been made.
Only downside is if one has its stock physically broken, and it is necessary to transfer all the parts to a new stock. This is a challenging undertaking.

These are outstanding .22 rifles.

Apparently Remington discontinued them because the dies for moulding the stock halves finally wore out - and because sales were only 30,000 units a year, the cost of new dies could not be justified.
 
I grew up with a friend that had one and I was always jealous, some 40 years later I now have two, brown and black. Great little gun, works every time, accurate as I can be with iron sights.
 
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