Coon hunting with a nylon 66? This is me around 1971.
Posted on 11/21/2016 8:02:42 AM PST by C19fan
In the late 1950s, Remington took advantage of its parent company DuPont’s expertise in industrial chemistry and developed a revolutionary new firearm. The Nylon 66 was the first mass-produced, widely-marketed polymer firearm. Remington designers requested a synthetic material that had a high tensile-impact strength, was resistant to environmental temperature extremes, resistance to abrasion, malleable and able to hold color.
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Anyone remember that exhibition done with the ‘66, (circa 1959-1960 or so), of something like a 100 thousand wood block aerial targets shot? I think the shooter only missed 10 or so of the total thrown!
Me too. I still use mine. And love it. With a nice little Weaver V22 scope on it, it can be a real asset. The only problem is you have to zero it after a dozen or so long shots. That plastic action is ok for the iron sights but the scope...meh. I still use the V22 though.
The iron sights are (purposely I suppose) not on that removable action cover. The lighter .22 scopes probably do not cause as much torque on that cover as a larger 1 inch ones.
I use to always mount a regular high power scope on all my .22 rimfires. There is another potential problem tho it never seemed to occur on my rifles.
Those regular scopes are typically set to be parallax free at 100 yards. If you do not hold your eye pretty much always in the center of the field of view the cross hairs might seem to move when sighted on nearby objects.
A great rifle to carry coon hunting.
Coon hunting with a nylon 66? This is me around 1971.
He has 2 part video on full take down and 2 part on full reassembly. I downloaded all 4 and saved them. I'm going to set them up to play when I do the job. Not looking forward to it, but it appears to be necessary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LAYP0GB6eU&list=PLh02P-p33IrIRNBy5m_HZ-tzJEzepiWdl
Also, a parts source for the Nylon 66:
http://www.gunpartscorp.com/Search.htm?s=nylon%2066
Yup. And they wanted a gun they trusted after salt-water immersion.
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