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What do you think of the Remington Nylon 66 as a reliable plinking gun?
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Works great, got one for me and both sons..
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That's what I'm thinking about--black, brown, and green.
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Mine has yet to malfunction. It is a great shooter with iron sights.
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I've had two of them. They are tough and reliable and moderately accurate with iron sights. They make a good coon gun as you can beat a coon to death with one and run over it with a pickup without breaking it. On the minus side they have lousy triggers and won't hold zero for shyt when scoped.
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So, a good open-sight kid gun then? That's pretty much what I'm looking for.
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Yep. I wouldn't take for my Nylon 66. Uber reliable and mines even accurate with Stingers! Plus I love the tube feed though the stock for loading. I really HATE 10-22 mags! Oh, and get ready to spend some big bucks to find a really clean Nylon! They ain't cheap any more!
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So, a good open-sight kid gun then? Yep.
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Any chance that they will run "shorts" reliably?
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Nope. But they made a few gallery guns that fired shorts only. Last one I saw at the big Tulsa Gun Show was priced at $1800 dollars !!!
"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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Any chance that they will run "shorts" reliably? Shorts, who the Hell has any shorts!?! Actually, I have two very old green and red boxes of Remingtons that somebody gave me years ago. I used to buy shorts at a little Mom & Pop store near my grandmother's in PA. $.59 a box. Longs were a little more and LRs were still less than a buck. Imagine the stink if someone sold a 12 year-old ammunition today! Anderson Cooper would have a sh$t hemmorage.
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Campfire Kahuna
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I can remember riding my Swynn Stingray bicycle to the little Mom & Pop grocery store when I was in the 5th or 6th Grade and buying .22 shorts for $.50 cents a box and HV LR for $.69 cents a box. Aw, the good ole days!
"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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I bought Remington Mohawk .22 LR's for 59 cents a box at the local Agway when I was a kid. Mom used to call ahead and tell them I was on my way down to buy some .22's and they'd sell them to me no problem. Course it was a small town and mom and dad knew everybody that worked there personally.
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I Like them. Last year i bought one, that is about 98-99% condition, at a local gun shop that i though was brown for $229. As soon as the sunlight hit the stock it turned green. Upon a little research its a seneca green nylon. Its almost like a olive colored. Pretty cool find i thought. Under artifical light, they look brown, but the sunlight brings outbthe color.
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I can remember riding my Swynn Stingray bicycle to the little Mom & Pop grocery store when I was in the 5th or 6th Grade and buying .22 shorts for $.50 cents a box and HV LR for $.69 cents a box. Aw, the good ole days! Schwinn! You must have been rich!
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The tube-feed Nylon 66s and Brazilian made CBC GR8 that FIE imported are nearly 100% reliable, while the detachable magazine styles are only as reliable as the magazine. I have three of them, but my preferred .22 auto-loader is the stainless, laminated mannlicher, 10/22.
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Was my first rifle, and it's still in the safe. Won't run shorts, but will run standard velocity LR just fine. I bought an aftermarket Williams Peep that attaches to the receiver hood dovetails, and swapped out the front sight. Way better than the original open sights for my old eyes.
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They are great little rifles. I have several of them. They are a lot easier for the kids to load through the buttstock vs. 10/22 mags. Especially in the cold weather. They are cool looking to boot!
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They look like they will carry in the hand a lot nicer than the 10/22 also. Hopefully I can find a nice one at a decent price for kids to play with.
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I have one that I somehow ended up with. I will probably never shoot it- I like my 10-22s just fine. Probably just sell this one at some point. They were pretty cool when they first came out.
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