My husband used to have one of those.
I still have the Nylon Bolt Action 22 my Dad bought for me in 1965!
I can’t believe you brought this up !!! That was my first gun, bought it at Montgomery Wards, loved that thing, super lightweight, wish I still had it. It was my squirrel huntin’ gun.
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I had one in Apache Black with chrome barrel and receiver cover. It was the handiest rifle I have ever owned and required very little maintenance.
It had one oddity. It was more accurate with open sights than with a scope. I decided that the receiver cover must have been shifting a tiny amount.
If I had one of those tiny but excellent Redfield .22 scopes it might have done better.
Anyway it was as accurate with the good iron sights as one could want and it was far handier without the scope.
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This material is great stuff. As tough as a polymer can be. If anyone wants some I have 1 3/4 tons of the stuff for sale cheap. (and no I am not kidding)
I have an Uncle who bought one of these from a traveling Remington salesman when they were first introduced. He lives in Ky and a salesman just stopped by the farm and showed him the rifles he liked them and bought one. I have owned numerous nylon 66’s and have never found one like this original salesman’s rifle it is a lighter brown than all the others that I have seen.
No idea of total numbers, but I’ve read that when Brigade 2506 went ashore at Bay of Pigs in April ‘61, some troops were armed with the Nylon 66. Perhaps the idea was to use the 66 until taking a weapon from a Cuban having no further use of it.
Yes, the Nylon 66 was a great gun. Thousands of rounds fired and never a jam. I bought mine around 1967 and then, regretfully, sold it in the late ‘70s.
In the late 50s, as a teenager, I saved up my money and bought a Rem Speedmaster. Loved that rifle.
My mother loaned it to a woman who claimed someone was stalking her.
The woman promptly bolted town w/ my rifle.
My mother bought me a Mohawk Brown Nylon 66 as a replacement. My son owns it now.
IIRC it choked on plated ammo, ran fine with straight lead though.
Liked it but the Rem Speedmaster was a better rifle IMO.
The ‘new’ Speedmasters are rough compared to the beautiful finish on the old ones.
Mine’s in the safe - I still break it out a couple of times a year. It taught me three things: shooting is fun, shooting fast is funner, and ammunition is expensive. I used to pay a whole quarter for a box of 50!
Nylon 66 bump
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!
A great rifle to carry coon hunting.