Besides being curious to see how many folks might own one of these I also want to see if I understand how to upload pictures from my S&W Forum album which, sad to say, I just learned. 
Remington Nylon 66
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I bought one while in highschool. My Mom and I got a bolt action version for my Dad for his birthday. That was in the late 50's.
That 66 kept me in spending money during high school and college shooting jack rabbits and selling them to a mink farm.
Fifty cents a box for long rifles and fifty cents a rabbit.
My son has the 66 and my grandson has the bolt gun.
That 66 kept me in spending money during high school and college shooting jack rabbits and selling them to a mink farm.
Fifty cents a box for long rifles and fifty cents a rabbit.
My son has the 66 and my grandson has the bolt gun.
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VaTom
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Nice. They bring good money at gun shows if in well kept condition. Don't own one. Always wanted one as a kid! I think the bolt action model is fairly rare.
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Interesting. I didn't know about the bolt gun. I wanted one forever, finally spotted this one a few years ago. Happy to have it but......it has never been fired since I acquired it! 
I do need to get it out and shoot it one of these days.
I do need to get it out and shoot it one of these days.
johnsonl
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I have one of the later models with the black stock. It is a serious tack driver.
Nylon 66 is tough as nails, mechanically,.....
...but yeah. At the temperatures you can get around here inside of a car I don't doubt it could damage a plast gun severely.
Who remembers the first plastic steering wheels that melted on a hot day?
...but yeah. At the temperatures you can get around here inside of a car I don't doubt it could damage a plast gun severely.
Who remembers the first plastic steering wheels that melted on a hot day?
I wanted one when they first came out, but could not afford it. My oldest and best friend owned a lumber yard and 20 or so years ago a guy traded him some guns for a load of lumber. One of them was a 66 and I got it. It is fun to shoot and very reliable. I understand that they can also be used for boat paddles if need be.
My stepfather had a couple of them when I was in elementary school, and I got to shoot them. Very enjoyable rifle, IMO. Since leaving home after high school, and then coming back home from the Navy, I've concentrated on hand guns. I've owned a couple of shot guns, and one rifle (a Winchester 30-30.) I've always thought that if I was going to have a .22 rifle, it would be a Nylon 66.
Bought one in the Mid 80's at a garage sale in West Texas for $50. It is the chrome one with black stock. Last weekend gun show in Fort Worth had one for $450 just like mine. I still have mine. Don't ask me how I know but there are a couple of pins you shouldbn't Remove when disassembling for cleaning.
DocB
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The original Remington is an amazing gun. You can't make it jam or misfire. As kids we would shoot them like machine guns to see who could pull the trigger the fastest. Never had a FTF. . .ever!
I've had two at different times, a Mohawk Brown and a Seneca Green. Each was great fun, accurate and reliable, can't remember what motivated me to sell. Have thought about picking up another, but they've gone totally "collector's item". Silly me.
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I think the (bolt action) single shot was the Nylon 10, the box magazine version the 11, and the tube magazine the 12.
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Ivan the Butcher
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When I was a kid the summer camp I went to in 1968 used the bolt version of the 66 for our rifle training. They used the same 10 rifles all summer long shooting about 500 rounds a day for 10 or 11 years when they quit marksmanship training. Just wipe the bore out once a week! NEVER OIL a Nylon 66, the stock will produce all the lubrication you'll ever need. (Oiling WILL cause it to gum up and get jammed!)
The real Nylon 66 was out of production when I wanted one for my sons. But FIE made a very good copy in Brazil. I walked into a going out of business sale in 1985 and bought 3 ($39 each) of these for my boys (ages 6, 4, almost 1) and put the away for their future. They got to have the locked to the wall in their room about 4 years later. Society had changed since I was a kid, In the 60's when you saw a boy walking down the road with a rifle you offered him a ride! If anyone saw a kid with a rifle in the 90's, they called the sheriff! So my kid's rifles were in a locked gun rack until the youngest was 17 (the other son's were in the military at the time, and told me how unfair that the "baby" had unlimited access to his rifle!
Over the decades we have fire tens of thousands of cheep 22's through these rifles and never had a fail to extract. On rifle did develop a fail to feed problem once, it turns an adult non family member was shooting with us and forced a stick down the feed tube (reason, never explained!)and left debris in there, a thorough scrubbing of the feed tube took care of the only problem we ever had!
Ivan
The real Nylon 66 was out of production when I wanted one for my sons. But FIE made a very good copy in Brazil. I walked into a going out of business sale in 1985 and bought 3 ($39 each) of these for my boys (ages 6, 4, almost 1) and put the away for their future. They got to have the locked to the wall in their room about 4 years later. Society had changed since I was a kid, In the 60's when you saw a boy walking down the road with a rifle you offered him a ride! If anyone saw a kid with a rifle in the 90's, they called the sheriff! So my kid's rifles were in a locked gun rack until the youngest was 17 (the other son's were in the military at the time, and told me how unfair that the "baby" had unlimited access to his rifle!
Over the decades we have fire tens of thousands of cheep 22's through these rifles and never had a fail to extract. On rifle did develop a fail to feed problem once, it turns an adult non family member was shooting with us and forced a stick down the feed tube (reason, never explained!)and left debris in there, a thorough scrubbing of the feed tube took care of the only problem we ever had!
Ivan
I have a Black Diamond model... black stock and blue steel... bought it new when I was young, my first gun purchase... I think it cost 87 dollars in 1987... or something like that... still have the box and papers too... super accurate and very light... was the first rifle my son could hold on his own... and he still enjoys shooting it... and he is in college now, 6'-3" and 225 pounds... gun weight is no longer an issue for him...
DWalt
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The Model 66 is an example of a relatively inexpensive gun when it was being manufactured which gained a lot of value when it went out of production. Especially so for some of the more unusual cosmetic variations. I seem to remember one version which was specially made for sale by K-Mart that a friend had. Over 20 years ago I had the opportunity to buy it from him relatively cheaply, but I didn't do it. I wish I had. I remember reading that the Alaskan natives and northern Canadian Indians loved them. They always worked, even in Arctic conditions.
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I have two, one I bought new the other I inherited from my Dad. Both are Mohawk Brown. Great mechanically and accurate shooters.
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One is a Remington, the other, a Brazilian copy. Both shoot very well.
Ned
One is a Remington, the other, a Brazilian copy. Both shoot very well.
Ned
I was going to say the same thing. A close friend owned one when they were fairly new. Remington made a big deal about them not melting in a hot car but my friend left his in the back window of a car (it was the 60's so there was space below the back window for stuff) on a hot, sunny day and when he came back a few hours later it was warped big time.
Maybe car steering wheels don't warp but "Nylon" Remingtons do. I saw it after it warped. The owner was seriously ticked about it especially since Remington wouldn't make it good.
I will say it was a great gun until the day it warped.
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