The story of the Remington Nylon 66...

[Leatherhead23]

My first firearm is my 1964 Nylon 66. My grandfather bought it new and gave it to me before he passed.

It has been well loved and recently I had the barrel threaded to used it with my suppressor. All you hear is the action cycle!

 

[Ross3914]

I bought one a few years ago in a pawn shop for a great price. I should have bought one long ago. I fell in love with it and was happy I bought it. Dead-nuts reliable. I have no doubt it will outlast me and go to my Grandson.

Definately a gun worth buying.

 

[moosedog]

Didn't you post a similar article several years ago Paladin? I remember reading those charts before.
Last time I read it I ended up buying four of the 66s and two 77s. I kept a mint brown standard model which I can't miss with. Great little guns, way ahead of their time.

 

[Florida J Frame]

I taught both my Granddaughters to shoot with a Nylon 66. Funny, the ballerina wasn't interested in shooting until I put that Remington in her hands and she started putting them in the black. Couldn't get it away from her after that. I'm looking for a 76 lever action now. That was my first gun and it disappeared while I was in the service.

 

[PALADIN85020]

Didn't you post a similar article several years ago Paladin? I remember reading those charts before.
Last time I read it I ended up buying four of the 66s and two 77s. I kept a mint brown standard model which I can't miss with. Great little guns, way ahead of their time.

Yes, I posted those charts some time ago, but I think some folks with interest in the guns had not seen them, so I put them up here. I had put off doing an article on the Nylons for a long while, because I didn't want to blunt a possible book, but the prospect for a compendium book of my articles is becoming seriously brighter now, and I'd hate not to include these classic guns.

I'm still playing footsie with the prospect of a book devoted solely to the entire Nylon series. We'll see.

John

 

[PALADIN85020]

My first firearm is my 1964 Nylon 66. My grandfather bought it new and gave it to me before he passed.

It has been well loved and recently I had the barrel threaded to used it with my suppressor. All you hear is the action cycle!



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Very nice! Although few decide to customize them, the Nylon 66s can be so treated. The one pictured below was my very first Nylon 66 - a Black Diamond made in April, 1980. I bought it at a gun show for $60 - and it was literally filled with sand, as though it had been neglected on a beach for years. I stripped it as best I knew then, and sprayed the innards with WD-40 to get rid of the sand. I wiped it off, loaded it up, and voila! It went through 14 rounds of high speed hollow points without a hitch. That was amazing to me - I never saw anything that reliable after such neglect. The stock was beat up, so in later years I decided this would be my knockabout "tacticool" Nylon. I scoped it, put a G.I. sling on it, fitted a threaded adaptor to it, and topped it off with an M16 flash suppressor. I have other collector-quality Nylons, but this one is a WORKING gun, fit for the desert around here, and I don't worry about dinging it up.

John