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Picked up a marlin 795 from a buddy that out shoots my 10/22 with a target hammer.

Wish I never sold my nylon though... doh!

These varmints were taken with CCI CB shorts that my 10/22s will not shoot.

I lucked out and picked up a used Marlin 7000 several years ago. I installed a DIP trigger guard and trigger. It is my go-to rimfire with my S&W 15-22 next.
Having said that, I owned a 10/22 many years ago and liked it well enough.

This is it but it wears a Nikon 4x rimfire scope now.

I bought one of those new almost 20yrs ago for $149 at Academy. THE BEST shooting semi-auto I've ever seen, and mine is stock with a Bushnell Elite 3200 3-10x40.

Scary accurate for a semi-auto with a crappy trigger and 100yd parallax scope.

I'll bet that rifle is a shooting sob...

Reply back from Remington...



Remington Support Service Ticket Response

The Factory has not considered coming back with the Nylon 66 that I'm aware of. It would be cost prohibitive.



Thank you and best regards,
Remington Customer Services

SOB that's a big coon.

Not really. I got two out of the same ravine one night that measured 52 and 53" from tip of nose to tip of tail.

That coon was 17.5 pounds.
I have taken 39 coons averaging 12.5 pounds.
I have taken one bigger, 19.5 pounds



Colt Lightnigh 22 Long made 1890

That is a big coon! Biggest one I ever saw was rummaging through our trash can at three in the morning. I had heard him before but never laid eyes on him till one night I got up as soon as I heard the commotion. My son was still in diapers and apparently baby poop is fattening cause that coon loved it and he was big big fat as a pig!

Apparently coons run small in the South and PNW. Back when lots of folks still coon hunted and big coon contests were common around here it usually took a 24+ pound coon to win. The biggest one I ever saw entered in a contest was 28 lbs.

In addition to the 10-22, I have a Remington 550-1. Like it
because it is a full size rifle and it sure shoots better than
I can hold it offhand.

I just bought me a Remington 550 as well. Great shooting rifle. I grew up shooting the Nylon 66. Those are hard to beat for a kid, except for the ammo burning holes in your pockets....lol.

I got my minty 550-1 from the original owner in 2011.
It was made in 1951 when the old guy was a teen ager.
I paid $157.

It has no grooves or holes.
I am going to have to take it apart and drill and tap it, unless I can find another one.

I got my 10/22 in the early 80's. It's been totally reliable and shoots good too.

I spent a considerable amount of time during my youth running the hills around here with my cousin and best friend. My cousin had a Marlin Model 60. My best friend had a Browning and a Nylon 66. They both had reliability issues quite often.

It may have been the ammo or maybe they bad examples from their brands? My 10/22 performed without a hitch, so I never had a desire for anything else.

Doubletap,
My above pictured 1951 $157 Rem550-1 in the pic has a half chamber that slides back "recoiling chamber" so the tiny recoil energy of the CCI CB short does not have to do slide acceleration and high friction extraction at the same time.

My 1968 $200 Rem 552 semi auto [later model] does not have a sliding sleeve chamber. It will not cycle CCI CB shorts. I can reduce the recoil spring down to the point of jamming in the forward direction, and it still cannot extract.

I don't know, but I am going to guess that the $230 kit you linked will cycle shorts just great, but not cycle the BB gun silent CCI CB shorts with 0.5 gr gunpowder and a 29 gr bullet that I have been brain shotting the coons with.

So unless you can find a Rem 550-1, not easy to find, CCI CB shorts are fastest shot though pump 22s.

Killed a fair number of varmints with CBs
541T HB, Anschutz 1403 and 141
Got one chuck under the shed with a Ruger Mk1 Target by flashlight.
541T-HB shot them better than the others, but that plastic mag and diminutive bolt handle made me dump it (before the prices went crazy- still made a little).
Most fun was a 572 with CB's.......it held quite a few when in the short version.

Have used a 10/22 single feed........sucked.

Have had a few other .22 rifles, and several 10/22's.
But am down to a TC Contender and one 10/22.

I did swap out the factory hammer for a Volq. Gun had been shot by prev owner a bunch, but the trigger still sucked.

BTW, biggest coon I ever got.........was with a shovel.
.22 rifle way less of a workout (proly less risk too).
Got him in the dark, between the neighbor's house and my privacy fence.

Did not damage anything but the coon.

Smacked him running away (after chase), he doubled back and went between my legs. Proly hit him 3 times before I landed back on the ground LOL.

Was practicing turkey calls and unloading groceries from the old lady's ride and he came across the road.

I'll stick to shooting them from now on (hey, rifles were in the cabinet, the shovel was right by the porch).

NICE STOCK!