Opinion of the Nylon 66?

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Models:

Model Nylon 10 Bolt Action Rifle Single Shot (10,700)
Model Nylon 11 Bolt Action, Clip Magazine Rifle (22,500)
Model Nylon 12 Bolt Action Tubular Magazine Rifle (27,600)
Model Nylon 66 Autoloading Rifle (1,050,350)
Model Nylon 76 Lever Action (26,927)
Model Nylon 77 Autoloading Rifle, Clip Magazine (15,327)

Numbers produced (approx.) as reported by Remington.

Note: Nylon 66 production equipment sold to a company in Brazil (CBC) that went on to produce it under another name.

Quote from an online article:
After Remington discontinued the Model 66, a Brazilian firm called C.B.C. bought the rights to the design and Remington's production machinery and revived the Nylon 66 for almost six years. The Brazilian copy was first imported by Kassnar and called the Kassnar Nylon 66 from 1988 to 1990. Magtech then took over C.B.C.'s Nylon 66 clone importation from 1991 to 1994 as the MT-66. The gun is now out of production.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0BQY/8_45/55605722/p1/article.jhtml?term=

Sorry for all of the information.
 
We had one...

on the farm in Indiana when I was a kid...long, long ago. Man, that gun took an absolute beating. We'd carry it on the tractor for ground hogs. Dust, dirt, mud. It would suprise me if it's ever been cleaned. It shot thousands of rounds.

If it got dirt in the action, we'd take a can of WD-40 and hose it out. Seems like the thing always worked, and it was plenty accurate. My brother still uses it.
 
What a rifle

When I was a kid I used a Stevens Favorite one winter to kill enough jack rabbits to buy a Nylon 66.
When they first came out they sold for $66.00.. I used mine to shoot jack rabbits at 50 cents apiece to buy gas in highschool. Gas was 25 cents a gallon and I lived 40 miles from school... I always had money in my pockets
Went to college used the 66 to buy beer.. Din't have much money in my pockets, but that's another story..

Carried it in the pickup on the ranch for 30 years. Gave to my son and now his son is shooting it.

I still have the Stevens.
My Granddad bought the Stevens new for $3.50
:)
 
"Went to college used the 66 to buy beer.. Din't have much money in my pockets,"...

...but it sounds like you had plenty of plinking targets. :)

John
 
I used my dads lever 76 and my friend used his dads 77 when we was kids.Great little guns.I just wish Remington would bring them back.
 
I had the Nylon 77 and my brother had the Nylon 66. Both were jam-o-matics. It didn't matter what ammo we used or if it was clean or not, it would jam. It worked better when clean but not by much. They are very accurate and fun to shoot.

They come with a scope rail on the top cover but don't bother mounting one on it because it won't hold zero due to the cover moving in recoil. This gun shouldn't have a scope on it anyway, it is too light and handy for that nonsense.

I wish mine worked as well as most of your guns. I sold mine for $50 but other than the extra money I could have got for it, I don't really regret it.
 
Here is my Nylon 66. The scope is a cheap 4x scope that my father-in-law had.
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Also, is that how you are supposed to have a rifle in rest?(the trigger guard in front or in behind the rear post?)

clipse
 
I'll be 55 in May. I bought a Nylon 66 when I was 15 (you could do that back then). I've had it ever since. It's a great little rifle. All the semi auto .22 you'll ever need. Mine has had untold thousands of rounds thru it and has never jammed; ever! I have one of the old Weaver Quik Point orange dot sights on it. You can put 15 rounds in a 2inch circle at 25yards with it.
Your father-in-law must love you like a son:D
 
Yikes. There's a 'collector quality' 76 lever on gunsamerica for $650.

Well, it is the only lever action repeating rifle Remington has ever made.

JT
 
Got mine when my dad passed on.

I remember around 30 years ago going to the San Jacinto river and knocking down cans from about 30 5 year old strides...a goodly distance when your that age. :)

Course I couldn't hold it up, but an old card table always helped...

about 6 years ago, I disassembled it and found a rather LARGE amount of river sand in it...took the stock and rinsed it out with the garden hose, took an old t-shirt and wiped down the bolt and such, dry q-tip to the trigger area, and that was it.

One thing, though...it IS easier to clean out the barrel when you disassemble it. IMO, that is.


I still shoot it to this day...and it will never have a pricetag on it.

D
 
I don't know if this is meaningful to the conversation or not but years ago I had a friend who use to take his Nylon 66 by the muzzle and throw it out into the fields hard as he could like a baseball bat.
He would walk out to the rifle, chamber a round and immediately start hitting soda cans from wherever the rifle happened to land.
That rifle never once jammed that I can remember and the shear abuse he used to subject the gun to and its ability to tolerate it always impressed me.
 
i got a nylon 77 for my 9th birthday and it was the best gift ive ever gotten. my great grandfather bought it back in the seventies and it just kind of made its way down to me. i have fired thousands upon thousands of rounds thru it (as im sure everyone else did) with little problem...until recently. i think it has a spring that is just worn out because sometimes the bolt will not return all the way forward after a shot. not a big deal tho...only happens once every 100 or so shots. never had a jam either. it shoots round nose bullets alot better than hp for whatever reason tho. I bought a 66 when i was 14 with money i made from shooting critters w/ the 77. i love the 66 too (but its not as sentimental) and my little brother has it now. id love to get my hands on a 76, but ive only ever seen a couple of them and nobody wants to give them up. the nylons are great guns, and can take a sh*t-ton of abuse.
 
Nylon 66:

Great Gun! My preference is the one fed through the buttstock. Brown Nylon and Blued receiver and barrel.

This one did not require magazines. Just turn the easy to get fingers onto turn handle, remove loading rod, drop .22 lr ctgs, re-insert loading rod, turn handle, done. Muzzle stayed downrange, and no fingers, hands, body parts near muzzle.
Great for teaching kids. new shooters, and these kids and new shooters liked this "safer" loading feature.

DO NOT take apart.

Too many have been taken apart and not put back together correctly. You don't need to take it down, don't need to mess with it. Load it, shoot it, and "maybe" take a Q-tip to reciever and chamber once in a Blue Moon.

Harley Nolden has the instruction manual. Just see his sub-forum and send this great THR member a PM for one.

Accurate, always worked, light and easy to carry...Nylon 66 is a great gun.


Steve
 
And if you think the 66 is hard to put back together, the 76 has more parts...as my uncle found out after I gave him one. Harley had the instructions for it or my uncle, father and the gunsmith would still be trying to get it back together. :)
 

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my dad still has his nylon 66 which will one day be mine, but that was the first rifle i ever shot and what i learned the basics of safe weapon handling, and marksmanship, with. i love that gun and plan to use it in the instructing of my kids one day, that and the ruger 22/45 should be a good start for anybody! i love the nylon and never for a minute would think about doing away with it!
 
My Nylon was a Christmas gift when I was 10yrs old. Bolt action w/clip ( M-11). Have shot a LOT of tree rats and rabbits with it over the years, I'm 55 now, and all three of my sons learned with this rifle. Hope to teach my grand children with it to!!

Oneshooter
Livin in Texas
 
Want to swap wives? I could use a father in law like that. 66 is a great .22. Don't bother to scope it.
 
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