Remington Nylon 66 Apache Black

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My dad's friend is looking to sell off his late father's estatee of firearms that were given to him.

One of the guns is an excellent condition Remington Nylon 66 Apache Black (chrome)

Now I know the Nylons are valuable after I got soaked selling one of my own (only found out after). This guy is thinking he can get over $500 for his. Is this ballpark correct?
 
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My dad's friend is looking to sell off his late father's estatee of firearms that were given to him.

One of the guns is an excellent condition Remington Nylon 66 Apache Black (chrome)

Now I know the Nylons are valuable after I got soaked selling one of my own (only found out after). This guy is thinking he can get over $500 for his. Is this ballpark correct?
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5 bills is at the top of pricing right now. Gagnon's recently sold a Nylon 66 Seneca Green at that price (plus tax naturally). They are not making any more of these, so the price will only go north from there. If you're asking if I would pay north of 500 for a black chrome 66, then not today anyway.
 
Nylon 66

Price on these older guns depends on supply and demand as well.There seems to be several 66's on the market right now.Gun retailer in Peterborough has had 3 of them for sale for months now.Condition is king as well.
 
I owned that exact rifle in my opinion they are not that accurate, cycled most types of ammo, but not well in temps lower than -10 i would not pay more than $300.00 for one. i have purchased 3 winchester Model 69's for 300-350 each and they are deadly accurate so there are way better deals out there if you plan on shooting it. just my personal experience.
 
350 max for someone that really wants one in excellent shape. 250 - 300 is more realistic right now.
Some love them, they have their place as a really light handy tin can plinker. I bought a black apache new in the 70's as my first good gun.

In my opinion however, .... lots of downside in the things they don't do well. As those things are important to me, I'm no longer a fan.
I personally prefer other choices in semi auto .22's which are more accurate, have better triggers, can be more easily scoped, impact doesn't change (much) when you change your hold on the stock. My last experience that sealed my relationship with the Nylons is missing a grouse head at 20 yards, multiple times after I had very carefully sighted it in (it was the flex-stock, crappy scope mounting combination).

That said, a black apache in excellent shape is collectible, if that interests you.

More of a novelty as far as I'm concerned for any hunting. Better guns? Old Mossberg 151 semis, Browning ATD or SA-22, Norinco JW-20, Marlin 795 and Marlin 60, even the 10/22. The last three don't have good stock triggers, but are still ahead of the Nylon 66.
 
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We just acquired a black Apache Nylon 66 from a friends dad's estate I gave it a try this morning while I was out running my dogs.

I found it to reliably feed 3 different low cost 22LR ammo accuracy was not bad either.
 
I owned that exact same rifle for a few years back in the early 70's before I sold it. It was a okay rifle with nothing special about it. No way would I pay $500 for one today but that's me.
 
We are stopping in at Cabela's tonight they have 50 round boxes of Winchester 22LR for $3.18 each reg $4.99 going to buy 1000 rounds for us and 500 for a buddy.

Plan is to set my son free to blast all he wants with cheap ammo by the end of those 1000 he should be ready to shoot the better stuff I already have on the shelf.
 
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