I hate to do this, but I gotta rant about my Nylon 66

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Probably the best rifle I will ever own, my Nylon 66 is one that no other rifle I've seen can contend with (Rimfire-wise). It has a heavy barrel, one that is just as thick as my Bushmaster XM15-E2S with the heavy barrel, it has NEVER jammed and fired every shot just as effectively as every shot hit its target.

But when I cleaned it yesterday.... Thats where the story turns..

I have an OTIS cleaning kit, Works fabulous on all my other guns with cable and adaptable to any caliber.

Otis + Nylon 66 = Disaster.

The ejection port of the nylon is small... Tiny as a matter of fact, it is big enough for a live .22LR round to get through, and thats about it.

So, I have my fiancee' with me... We sit and brainstorm. I did have a rod cleaning kit but 2 of the rods are in fact useless due to one breaking and the threads of the broken one stuck in the other one, so all we have is the 10" rod with the handle fused on it.

So, the cable from the Otis kit is too short to run through the barrel AND the loading tube through the stock, even with the extra cable attachment, its far too short.

I come up with a plan, I skip the brushing and go straight to patches with solvent. I shove the cable down the barrel (with no handle), until the patch is at the muzzle. So, with a pair of needle-nose pliers, I grab the cable through the ejection port, and pull in tiny amounts of the cable until the patch is completely inside the barrel. THEN, I use the rod I have with the handle fused at the end, and then I push in until the handle makes contact with the muzzle (in the non-damaging way), and that leaves about 1" of the cable exposed at the loading area in the stock. Just enough to get a good grip or attack the handle for the cable and then pull the rest of the way.

We had to do that ALOT on my Nylon, it hadnt been cleaned in a LONG time, and it had gone through HUNDREDS of rounds, so it was exremely dirty.

Definately a 2-person operation, one of us held the bolt back while the other pushed the cable in and guided it from the ejection port to the feeding tube and then working the cable with the pliers, and THEN shoving the rest with the rod and then pulling the rest through.

Both me and my fiancee's fingers hurt because we cleaned 2 Nylon 66's in one night. (the other was my grandfathers)

I just finished mine today, I had used a q-tip to clean a crap-load of carbon and residue out of the port, I blackened 3 of those q-tips.

Long story short... The Nylon is an amazing .22, but the greatest PAIN I've ever cleaned.. EVER!

Okie, I'm done :)
 
Heh!! Boy, do I remember the day my dad cleaned his... I thnk he made up a few new 4-letter words that afternoon... I think that was also the only time I ever heard him drop the "F" bomb... out loud...
 
That word was playing over and over in my mind as we cleaned the Nylon. :cuss: Remind me never to help you with that again!
 
That word was playing over and over in my mind as we cleaned the Nylon. :cuss: Remind me never to help you with that again!
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Just think, after the next 800 or-so rounds we shoot together, we get to do this again!! :D

Its still a great gun, even dirty.
 
Just think, after the next 800 or-so rounds we shoot together, we get to do this again!! :D

Its still a great gun, even dirty.
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Crap! Ok, I revise my above statement. Remind me never to shoot that Nylon again! Then, I wont have to clean it!
 
Crap! Ok, I revise my above statement. Remind me never to shoot that Nylon again! Then, I wont have to clean it!
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I'll take that POS off your hands... I'll even pay for the shiping :)
 
Life is too short to own a gun that is that hard to maintain. I don't care how "great" it is otherwise. YMMV.
 
I broke the stock on my 66 a few years ago and as a " temporary" mesure ( and a great excuse to get ) picked up a butler creek cf barrel and stock kit for one of my 10-22s . I still havent bothered to find a stock for the 66 LOL .
 
Are you one of these guys that think a .22 needs to be cleaned all the time?

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Don't worry. Lots of us were.

Swab out the receiver, wipe down the outside, it'll be good.

If you can get a bore snake through it -- I doubt you can -- but if you can, that'll be enough to make you feel good about the bore. Forget about the cleaning rod regimen. A .22 just doesn't need it, and is easier to hurt from cleaning than from shooting.
 
Never got to play with a Nylon 66, heard they were great 22 rifles.
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you can pick up one in great shape for about $300. well worth it

broke the stock on my 66 a few years ago and as a " temporary" mesure ( and a great excuse to get ) picked up a butler creek cf barrel and stock kit for one of my 10-22s . I still havent bothered to find a stock for the 66 LOL .
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remington has a life time warrenty on those stocks... call them up.( it was one of the selling points.)
 
Also best .22 I have owned.

Why don't you just remove the barrel. Take the two screws out of the receiver cover. Take the one big screw out of the bottom. Remove reciever cover. Grab barrel by big sight and rotate 90 degrees. The barrel retaining lug will pop up and you can pull it out with your fingers.

Remove barrel, clean from breach.

Barrel removal takes me about one minute.

The bolt will just slide out in your hand and can be cleaned separately.

Reassembly takes about a minute.

I clean mine every 10,000 rounds or so whether it needs it or not.:)
 
Here is how I cleaned mine I had as a teen...almost 40 years back...

took the 2 receiver screws out, took off cover. Removed the big screw from the bottom, rotate barrel a bit, then the 2 pieces that hold barrel in come loose...barrel slides off the front.
 
Now wait a minute. Sounds like the problem wasn't necessarily the Remington, but that you had the wrong tools to clean it. Why didn't you simply get in the car, go down to the local Wally World and buy what you needed? I mean, anytime you set out with the wrong tools to do something, you can expect a certain amount of frustration, right?

So with just a few bucks you could have saved yourself the hassle by buying a long, stainless or brass rod, some screw-in bits and you'd be good as gold. That you're dreading the next cleaning using the same crummy setup is even worse!

I don't have the Nylon model, but I've always wanted one. But don't put yourselves through all that next time, okay?

Or...if you for some reason can't get what you need at the time, take some dental floss, attach one end to a paper clip that's been straightened out and then bent in two. Take a .22 bore brush and cut it in two with some pliers, then tie one of them to the other end. Drop the paperclip down the barrel til it reaches the bottom. Soak the other end in Hoppes, then pull it through til it comes out of the chamber. Then string a patch over the brush and do it again. Repeat until the rifle is clean.

If that doesn't work, the next step involves catching small insects and more getting more dental floss. Hopefully you'll get a good rifle cleaning kit, as I have no idea how to get a bug to crawl down the barrel pulling a patch behind it!
 
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