Is there any of you guys familure with the Remington Nylon 66 22 long riffle? I picked one up for my son the other day I got about $250 in it. I think I did ok mine is the Mohawk Brown, just hun , no scope. It is missing the top screw on rear site and the wind adjustment screw is there but the head is broken off. Is there somewhere I could purchase parts for my son’s nylon 66?
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cdb1
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Growing up I did not care for the looks of the Nylon 66. Now I think they are seriously cool.
lightman
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I still have the one that my Grandfather gave me as a kid. $250 was a steal even with the missing parts. While not a target rifle, they are really fun rifles to play with.
Gordon
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I kept mine in my barn for 20 years before giving to my son in law as his first gun 10 years ago.ll ways faithful with minimal douching withWD40 and cleaning bore and ouling.When I gave gt to him it was wearing a Bushnell red dot and the combo is perfect.I had a Weaver Quick point on it before.
LIke a fool I gave away my Apache Black model when I went into the service. I've since replaced it and added quite a few more to the stable. Nylons are just cool. Always were, always will be. I suggest you look around for a real beater as a parts source.
22250Rem
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Never owned one but always admired them...... They are cool little rifles. Ones I've seen were also accurate and reliable.
One of those kept me in gasoline and beer during highschool and college.. .22 LR was $.50 a box and Jack Rabbits were selling for $.50 to $.75 cents apiece for food at a mink farm. I shot hundreds of them. Gave the gun to my Son along with my Dad's Model 77 to my Grandson.. They're still shooting.
FL-NC
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When I was a kid in the 70's my uncle handed me his nylon 66 and a sock full 22 LR. He sent me to the dump and said, go play. I did and really enjoyed it. I ended up with a 10-22 in 1988, which was my only 22 for a long time. Stumbled into a brown 66 at a gun shop for cheap a few years ago and grabbed it- shoots like a dream, lots of fun.
bender01
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I’ve always wanted one. When I was a kid my friend had one. I had a bolt action. His was black. They seem to have held value for sure!
NIGHTLORD40K
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Along with the AR7, this was the rifle I learned on. It was fairly accurate and certainly fun, but jammed as often as any .22 Semi-auto, especially when run dry or dirty. A thin silicone-based oil is your friend.
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Demi-human
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I purchased mine for sixty. I fired it once. I then went to Numrich to see which part was missing that let the cartridges fall inside the receiver, rattling around like a rain stick.
So mine cost sixtythree ninetynine, shoots well and looks brand new. Even has the sticker on the stock telling how cool Nylon is.
So mine cost sixtythree ninetynine, shoots well and looks brand new. Even has the sticker on the stock telling how cool Nylon is.
theotherwaldo
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My local gun store found an extreme answer to getting a part. They bought an Apache Black that was missing an extractor, so they bought an operable Mohawk Brown with a drilled action cover and swapped parts.
I picked up the parts gun cheap, bought a spare bolt on Ebay, put a scope on that matched the drilled holes, and now I finally have a Nylon 66.
I picked up the parts gun cheap, bought a spare bolt on Ebay, put a scope on that matched the drilled holes, and now I finally have a Nylon 66.
Sav .250
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Those puppies, in decent/good shape, go for a fair amount of money. Gun shows.
.308 Norma
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http://www.nylonrifles.com/wp/2013/02/the-most-famous-nylon-66/
Does anyone else remember this? I was 11 or 12 when the ad for the nylon-66 showing some guy sitting on top of a massive pile of wooden blocks was in an outdoors magazine that I don't remember the name of. As an 11 or 12 year old kid, who got his first .22 rifle (a Winchester Model 55) for his 10th birthday in 1958, I was duly impressed by the nylon-66 ad.
Does anyone else remember this? I was 11 or 12 when the ad for the nylon-66 showing some guy sitting on top of a massive pile of wooden blocks was in an outdoors magazine that I don't remember the name of. As an 11 or 12 year old kid, who got his first .22 rifle (a Winchester Model 55) for his 10th birthday in 1958, I was duly impressed by the nylon-66 ad.
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My father had a black Nylon 66 for a while when I was a kid. It was a very sharp looking rifle, but it jammed all the time. When we went after jackrabbits, the Marlin was always the gun the grandkids wanted because it just kept feeding.
highlander 5
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Don't remember the gentleman's name but a world/Guiness record was set with 2 Nylon 66 rifles. Out of 100,010 hand thrown wooden blocks only missed 10 block, rifles were AFAIK never cleaned. Record still stands today.
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.308 Norma
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Tom Frye. See my post (#21) in this thread.
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