My Nylon 66

Congratulations.
I bought one like that when they first came out.
Put a scope on it.
I Shot hundreds of Jack rabbits and sold them to a mink farmer for beer and gas money during college.

Gave my Dad the bolt action version for a birthday.

My son and grandson have them now.

Great little rifles.

I had several over the decades. They were dead nuts relaible, but they did not lend themselves to a scope as any change in forearm pressure would throw the shot wild.

They were all the rage when I was a kid, back in the pre-10/22 days.

I have a friend that has his deceased FIL's model 11. A nice looking rifle.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

My Dad has one and we shot it a ton as a kid. Almost snagged one of the Brazilian copies a while ago- anybody have experience with the knockoffs?

The first firearm I ever fired was a nylon 66....spent many, many, afternoons plinking and shooting doves and things on our farm with it.

Enjoy your outing tomorrow!

They were cool looking rifles. I still have the one that my Grandfather gave me when I was a kid.

On another note, don't detail strip it!!! It was the hardest thing that I ever took apart and tried to reassemble. It can be done but the frustration adds about a year to your life!

My wife's go to .22 Semi auto is a GR8 knock off from Brazil. It is not as accurate as the US ones I have shot but works and she likes it. Oh she would like a little Browning semi auto or the Remington knock off or even a Norinco knock of more, but she is happy with her Brazilian Boomstick for now.

I looked at a 77 last week, but there was just the one magazine so I put it back in the rack.

I used a beater 66 for a car gun in my YUGO for a while and it survived the totaling of the Solid Steel Socialist Automobile (from Hell) It was only after the wreck I noticed that a piece of naked uncoated aluminum had been laying against the muzzle end of the barrel and a bit of galvonic action had been going on...now it is an Ugly beater as well.

I keep thinking that playing with screw tension on the barrel retaining screw aught to have some sort of effect on accuracy but am too lazy and without a inch pound torque wrench to bother to find out.

I never thought of a Nylon as accurate, only "accurate enough" sometimes. They are fun rifles.

-kBob

My Dad still has a black stocked one. It loads through the butt. I used to have a brown stocked one that used a 5 round mag.

NIGHTLORD40K said:

Almost snagged one of the Brazilian copies a while ago- anybody have experience with the knockoffs?

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Bought one in a K-Mart an eon or so ago. Was like $82.56 out the door.
Other than the rollmarks, exactly identical.
Same level of PITA as a Nylon to disassemble, too.
Mine prefers PMC ammo, the Nylon likes Remington.