Nylon 66

[jeremiah12]

Today my wife and I were helping her mother taking care of things after the passing of my wife's father a few days ago. We were going through the closet in the hallway that he stored many things in. I found a familiar .22 from my youth, a Remington Nylon 66.

This is what I learned to shoot with and spent many hours plinking and killing all sorts of cans with.

I know the picture is not great but I discovered this is the rare Seneca green version. I had never seen one before.

A friend of the family is an attorney and handling the legal stuff. My FIL had set up a living trust so that everything goes to his wife upon his death, of course unless she had already passed.

She hates guns and wanted it out of her house. The barrel code dates it to January 1960 which made things easy for me as I have my FFL03 and COE. I took it home and entered it into my bound book and will go onto CFARS and do the transfer that way.

I called my son to tell him and it turns out he shot it a few times when his grandfather took him shooting.

So on my next trip to IL I will transfer it to him.

I already have a Nylon 66 I purchased a few years ago in Apache black and I shoot that when I want a reminder of my childhood.

[sealocan]

Congratulations, that's a very cool find and I'm glad because you already have one that you're passing it along to your son who has good memories of shooting it with his grandfather.

Very cool.

[Oceanbob]

A fantastic .22
👍👍👍✅❤️

[TKM]

Go gentle on the mag release.

Made of pure Unobtainium.

[bigbossman]

Very, very nice. I'll bet most men of a certain age either had one or shot the one that their friend had.

Fun fact - they made a version that was a lever action. Hard to find, and spendy when you do.

[jyo]

I traded a used pocket knife for my first Nylon 66 many, MANY moons ago---rifle was very well used, but functioned 100%---taught many folks to shoot with this rifle... A good friend asked me to sell it to him because his wife (injured in a car crash) could not shoot anything else and they were moving to SW Texas... I wasn't looking to sell, but they were good friends and I figured I could always buy another... WRONG! They became "Collector items" and the price went thru the roof!
I figured I would just keep shooting my old 10-22 Deluxe Sporter or my Belgium Browning SA-22 because I wasn't gonna pay too much for another 66. Then, I was approached by an older gentleman at my club range. He said he was getting old and didn't want to burden his wife with a bunch of guns when he left the earth. He had a stack of guns---lots of good shape older firearms (the best kind)! I spotted a near new Mohawk brown Nylon 66 and asked him the price---he shot back a very reasonable price and that was that! That rifle now lives with us---the wife loves that rifle because she can't seem to miss with it (me either)...

[HAVOC5150]

My grandfather had one as well, I didn’t even know it. When we were cleaning out his house my mom found it and put it in a large plastic tub in the front yard covered by a bunch of fake roses. It must of sat out in that tub for weeks until I went by, I was pleasantly surprised, I’ve wanted one for a long time.

[k1dude]

I had a brown Nylon 66 in the 60's that I loved. It was my first .22. It was stolen in a burglary when I was in college. I still wish I had it. It was incredibly accurate with any bulk ammo.

[Oceanbob]

[fish45]

My pops had one. I saw one for 300 a few years ago and passed cause I thought it was expensive for one at the time. I really wish I had picked it up now.

[DanGunner]

No legacy Nylon 66s in my family but I did inherit two Remington Model 12 pump guns in superb condition, one from my father, a short-barreled carbine made in 1919 and another from my grandfather, a 1926 vintage octagon barrel rifle. Both will go on down the line, one to a grandson and the other to a nephew.

[choprzrul]

[larkja]

Go gentle on the mag release.

Made of pure Unobtainium.

There is no magazine. It's an 18 round tube that goes through the end of the buttstock. My dad bought a black at Gemco in the early 70s. Still has it. Must have close to 10,000 rounds through it and still shoots like a dream.

Great rifles. Enjoy!

[nickel plate]

There are several other variants of the Remington nylon 66 .22LR. Here are two nylon 76 lever actions in the first photo. Both the 66 and 76 loaded via a removable tube in the butt plate.
The nylon semi auto 77 .22LR has a removable five round box magazine in the second photo.
A couple other variants are the nylon 10C, same as the nylon 77 but with a removeable ten round box magazine.
The nylon 11 .22 is a bolt action with a removeable six or ten round box magazine.
The nylon 12 .22 is a bolt action with a fourteen round under barrel tube fed magazine.
There may be more but I've thread crapped enough, sorry OP......

[Killer Bee]

no one's mentioned the model number is named after the polymer chemical name yet?

neat guns with a lot of history.. not my fancy but if one had descended down the family line I'd keep it for my kids too..