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Remington Nylon 66

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I just recently finished reading Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. It is about Chris McCandless, aka. Alex Supertramp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_McCandless, who hiked across America and eventually died in Alaska. He carried a Remington Nylon 66 and it says that he used it because alot of Alaskans used it because it is reliable and light.

I was wondering if anybody here knows anything about them. Are they reliable? How much can you usually find them for? I have a Ruger 10/22, how does it compare to that?

Thanks :)
 
Very reliable, pretty much indestructable and becoming somewhat of a collectible now for ones in 90%+ condition. I've had one since the late70's, given to me by my dad and it never gave problems even when neglected badly on maintenance. Check prices on Gunbroker or Guns America to get an idea but you're going to start @ $250-300 for a decent one.
BW
 
Some say it is the most reliable semi auto .22 ever made. I just inherritted one and the accuracy is pretty good. It isn't a picky eater by any stretch of the imagination. And, it is super light with open sights and no scope. I think it is the fact that it is so thin that makes it so handy. I don't imagine that you would be dissapointed if you bought one.
 
I cut my teeth on a nylon 66 when I was a kid. I did a lot of aerial trick shooting with it. Never had a jam in thousans of rounds. No problems whatsoever. The nylon 66 is accurate enough for it's intended purpose, hunting. There are 2 things that I do not like on the nylon - the trigger sucks and is slow (slows down rate of fire). Not suited for scope as the receiver is not stable enough for a scope mount (mount a scope and while looking thru a boresighter touch the bbl or forearm or receiver and watch it move). This is one gun that is easy to maintain and disassembly is easy as well as bbl. removal. Just don't try and remove anything else. Overall I guess I'll give it a 7.5 out of 10. My win. 63 shoots much faster due to its quicker trigger action.
 
My first gun and still have it. It's over 25 years old. Very light easy to shoot and never failed. I have a 10/22 target and I still like the Nylon66 for woods carry.
BB
 
They came out when I was a kid but I only got one years and years later. also picked up and rehabilitated a much-used one as a shooter. Nice little gun--as they say, very light and reliable. The only drawback to my way of thinking is that I don't much care for tube feed rifles. They did make one version with a magazine, though.

My experience with 10/22s is limited but I never could warm up to them--whereas the Nylon 66s are cool the way a '57 Chevy is.

I think Remington could still sell them by the boatload if they had any marketing sense. Lord knows they never came up with a better .22 plinker.
 
Remington Nylon .22

I have owned one since 1975 and it is the magazine fed model. I purchased it brand new while a Navy Seabee stationed in Charleston, SC for the extremely great price of $34.99 out the door at a local K-Mart. Those were the days of reasonably priced and well made firearms.

oae :)
 
Rem Nylon

If you can find one at a book store or sprting goods store, Guns & Ammo had an edition of "The Book of .22 Rimfire" magizine that had a big article about the nylons. also, there is a big book out all about rimfire also, The Gun Digest of the .22 Rimfire. it also has information on it as well as many other rimfire guns.
good Luck - Eric
 
I have a Nylon 66 that I purchased in the 1970s...

It's a great gun and was well received, with 1,050,350 of them made...

The removable magazine version was called the Nylon 77, of which only 15,327 were made. I know that my brother bought one of the promo models of the Nylon 77 (the Mohawk 10C, of which 128,358 were made), which he still has and it's a great gun too...

The Brazilians came out with a short-lived copy of the Nylon 66 in the 1980s, and Remington decided to quit on the Nylon 66...

That's another of the less-than-clever ideas that Remington has had over the years...

Forrest
 
my Nylon 66 is a '79 black diamond... very very light, reliable and accurate...
Grampa passed one of his old ones down to me as birthday gift and is my First gun. No dings, scratches or rust..

Good luck on finding one ;)
 
Got it from my dad...I was there with him when he bought it at the gunshop. :)

Mowhawk with the white diamond...

Once you learn how to dissasemble it, its actually not that hard. :D

I HAD to as the poor beastie had sand from the san jacinto river in there from when we would go shooting back in the late 70's.

Just dusted out the sand, checked all the metal parts and gave a quick wipe-down, then re-assembled. Runs just as good as she did the day he bought her. :)
 
Here is a view on the Remington Nylon 66.
There were Oodles of these things made.
How often do you see one on the used gun market and how long does it stay on the shelf when you do spot one?

We gladly accept Nylon 66s on trade.
They have a less than seven day turn around in this shop.
 
With all respect to McCandless and his family, from what I've read of his trip (including Krakaur's book and article) I wouldn't say his expertise with firearms (or arguably, wilderness survival) was all that great. So I'd be hesitant to select an arm on his experience alone.

That said... enh. Wouldn't be my first choice (CZ 452 would), but for the small game needs he had most any .22 in decent shape would suffice I'd think, and the nylon 66 is as good as any.
 
i personally thing that the remington nylon is the greatest .22 plinker of all time. i inherited a nylon 77 for my birthday (9th or 10th) that was bought by my great grandfather. he shot it thousands of rounds thru it, my grandfather shot thousands of rounds thru it, my father shot thousands of rounds thru it, and i have shot thousands of rounds thru it. i suspect that my great, great grandchildren will still be shooting this thing when i am long gone.
 
The 66 was am icon of its time , it was reliable with almost any ammo and extremely light . The 10-22 of today would be real similar tho you would have to re stock and cf barrel it to get the same light weight that the rem had . I have a pre 69 hard chrome with a black stock and it still works fine .. i really need to re stock it due to the attrition of years , but have not yet found a source for a stock . Honestly i have not looked hard since my 10-22s fill that gap so well .
 
Funny- I've got 2- both in great shape- and one is on consignment down at the gun shop for $200, complete with scope. If anyone's interested, drop me a line....
 
Thanks for the responses, :D. Sounds like something that I might pick up sometime in the future.
 
Got one of the brown stocked ones that I bought sometime I think back in the late 80's that has been shot less than 50 times. It is indeed a lite weight gun, but I never shot it enough to see how accurate it is.
 
I got some info on the rem 66.The remington nylon 66 was intoduced in 1959.
the stock is one piece from butt stock to forearm.
Nylon 66 is the name of the high strenth dupont nylon (the plastic stock)
the tube fed has a capacity of 14 rounds.
the rem 66 is self-lubricating,so the only reason to oil it is to keep the metal from rusting.
It only weigh's 4 1/2 lb's
and the light weight barrel is 19 5/8 lenth.
Now for my nylon 66 story.i bought mine at a pawn shop in california for
$49 buck's in 1997 and since then it spent a lot of time in mexico.
in the dusty hot and humidity temp of mexico. I never cleaned it till last year it's now with me in arizona to valubale to leave in mexico.
well it never jamed on me it took it's fair share of rabbit's and as you have read no one has said anything bad about the nylon 66.
well now it belong's to my wife she loved it so much that i had give it to her.
so now instead of shooting rabbit's in mexico it shoot's golf ball's at the range.
I also added a wal-mart $16 scope i'm surprised how well it work's.
I highly recomend it.
i'v had ruger 10/22 jam on me also problem's with the mag's.but the nylon 66never ever had a problem.
If i find one for $150 or lower i'll pick it up right away.
good luck and happy shooting.
 
About the only complaint on the nylon 66 is it's slow trigger action which makes it shoot slower than my 63 winchester.
 
whether frigid or humid scorching heat, it always went bang and it always cycled the same... i think the only way to make these things NOT work is to either badly mistreat them or spill cokacola in the action..

my black diamond is still as fresh as the day it was bought (i wasnt even born until a little over 20 years after manufactered).
 
A nylon 66 ...

...was my first rifle
(after the pellet gun).

Fine rifle.
Shot a bunch of squirrels with it.
(For dinner).

These days,
for .22LR rifle,
give me a 39A.
 
I bought my first one in 1968 and have owned several more since. I still have two in Apache Black.
They are extremely reliable and rugged rifles and produce decent accuracy with every kind of ammo I have ever tried.

I have also owned two 10/22 rifles and from my personal experience, the Nylon 66 rifle is far superior to the 10/22 in both accuracy and reliability.

If I had to pick one rifle to use for survival purposes, it would be the Nylon 66.
 
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