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wish I still had the one I used to own..... this is F/S in TX at a shop for $320 + ship
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Yes, I do. I dont care how old those get they are still plastic. This gun was ahead of the times, not in a good way.
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I still have mine. It's 100% reliable and very accurate. Still my favorite .22 rifle out of all the ones I've owned.
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
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Campfire 'Bwana
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I've had at least one of these since Santa brought me my first one on Christmas Day 51 years ago. That rifle has gone through a couple different scopes and has proved that mounting a scope on the non-structural receiver cover is a sub-optimal solution. Still, it has easily had 10K rounds through it and the only time it failed to fire/cycle/repeat was when I tried to feed it some Russian "Junior" steel cased ammo that had some sort of greasy/waxy lubricant on it.
I currently have two Remington Nylon 66s, the original and one that I bought on here in 2008, plus a couple of the CBC/FIE Brazilian-made Nylon .22s that my kids occasionally shoot.
Thanks for bringing back good memories about the Nylon 66. If I think hard, I can picture myself with that first Nylon 66 slung over my back as I cruised snowmobile trails and abandon roads all over Cornish, Grantham, and Plainfield, NH, on my trusty Honda 1970 CT-90.
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I remember way way back at a YMCA camp they had these. They had the S**t shot out of them and they always kept going. Spent all of my camp money on ammo..
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I have the lever action version, fun to shoot once in a while
I am one gun away from happy
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Campfire 'Bwana
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I have the lever action version, fun to shoot once in a while I had a Nylon 76 for awhile, but somebody wanted to give me about 4x what I paid for it and since I didn't have any particular attachment to it, I let it go down the road.
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never owned one. shot one belonging to a relative back in the 70's at one time.
jmho- i couldn't give that asking price unless that was the total for 3 guns or 1 gun and a pallet of ammo. i'd be hard pressed to find that much sentimental value in one, and if i did it sure wouldn't be for sale.
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I bought a nice used one back in the early '80s for $50 just to satisfy my curiosity. Sold it about a year later for $50. Just didn't appeal to me despite the tough-as-nails rep. That plastic trigger just felt weird. Would much prefer a synthetic 10/22, even if you can't run over them with your car.
My brother had one of the Nylon 12s, I believe, a tube-fed bolt action with a very similar stock to the 66.
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the AK of 22's. shoot it until it stops ejecting and then pour hoppes through it until the stock starts to melt and then continue shooting. i have probably put 100k rounds through various models of those POS guns. a kid gave me one about 40 years ago that had a slightly bent barrel and a big jagged crack in the stock. had to do a little kentucky windage on it but it was minute of popcan. when i went in the service i gave it to another guy who used it for a trapline gun.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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the AK of 22's. shoot it until it stops ejecting and then pour hoppes through it until the stock starts to melt and then continue shooting. i have probably put 100k rounds through various models of those POS guns. a kid gave me one about 40 years ago that had a slightly bent barrel and a big jagged crack in the stock. had to do a little kentucky windage on it but it was minute of popcan. when i went in the service i gave it to another guy who used it for a trapline gun. Why would you spend the $$ to buy 100K of .22 LR ammo to shoot through a rifle that you consider a POS?
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Remington has put out a couple of POS in an attempt to replace the 66. I bet that if they started making them again they would sell like hotcakes. I have owned at least a half-dozen and every time I sell one I regret it. They are not the most accurate, the trigger is only so-so and there is not much that can be done to make it better but they just keep on working and thinks down-range just keep on dying.
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223 Rem, my favorite cartridge - you can't argue with truckloads of dead PD's and gophers.
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A now deceased uncle of mine had a Nylon 66. He was really big into 'coon hunting. Said the 66 was his all-time favorite .22cal rifle for that purpose as it was light to carry, accurate enough, and, except for dud rounds, always worked for him.
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Never owned one, never shot one, and never wanted one.
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A now deceased uncle of mine had a Nylon 66. He was really big into 'coon hunting. Said the 66 was his all-time favorite .22cal rifle for that purpose as it was light to carry, accurate enough, and, except for dud rounds, always worked for him.
My favorite uncle and his hunting buddy wore out/broke FOUR of them while coon hunting. Once, they got mud in the barrel and bulged it out, Remington replaced it, and two others got snapped when the horses ran a sapling or tree limb between buttstock and horse, Remington replaced those two, also. Gilbert was still on his fourth 66 when he passed away last summer, at age 91. He loved 'em. If the ammo was good, it was reliable, period. He never scoped them, just thru them in the scabbard and loosed the hounds and went after the coons. Back in the '60s and '70s, he made enough money off coonhides to buy a '73 Chevy Nova for my girl cousin to drive to college. That's a LOT of coon hides.
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Grew up using the black version. When I was in college back in the late 80's I stumbled on the brown version. I bought it for my dad. We killed hundreds of rabbits using that black little rifle. Like others have said, that little rifle never failed to feed ammo through it.
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I had one for a few weeks and traded it. I am a lefty and that thing powder burned my face on every shot. Couldn't wait to be rid of it. The flinch it gave me stayed longer than the rifle did.
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Not only do I remember, but Ive got one.. Installed the " Red Dot of Doom" and use it for rolling in hot on fresh gopher fields...
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A now deceased uncle of mine had a Nylon 66. He was really big into 'coon hunting. Said the 66 was his all-time favorite .22cal rifle for that purpose as it was light to carry, accurate enough, and, except for dud rounds, always worked for him.
My favorite uncle and his hunting buddy wore out/broke FOUR of them while coon hunting. Once, they got mud in the barrel and bulged it out, Remington replaced it, and two others got snapped when the horses ran a sapling or tree limb between buttstock and horse, Remington replaced those two, also. Gilbert was still on his fourth 66 when he passed away last summer, at age 91. He loved 'em. If the ammo was good, it was reliable, period. He never scoped them, just thru them in the scabbard and loosed the hounds and went after the coons. Back in the '60s and '70s, he made enough money off coonhides to buy a '73 Chevy Nova for my girl cousin to drive to college. That's a LOT of coon hides. As far as I know my uncle still had and used his Nylon 66 for 'coon hunting up until he passed on. I don't know and never have asked but his wife, step-daughter or her husband may still have it. I remember when 'coon hides were going for some pretty big money back in the mid-late '70s, and, yep, no doubt that car still cost a LOT of 'coon hides, even with as high as they were selling for back then. I've seen some of my uncles pictures of a good seasons catch of 'coon hides,... WOW!
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Campfire 'Bwana
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I have it twin in the safe down stairs
A Doe walks out of the woods today and says, that is the last time I'm going to do that for Two Bucks.
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