Nylon 66

[Garand Hunter]

Great Shooters ! Got mine 2 yrs ago from a friend in Antioch, Contra Costa County, Antioch gun show. Lefty Curtis Custom Gunstocks sent it my way for less than $ 200. DO NOT LET IT GO !

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[beerman]

Great pickup OP. I still have the Apache Black/chrome 66 I learned to shoot with in 1964. Pretty minty still. Taught a lot of kids to shoot with that gun.

[jeremiah12]

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......

I have enjoyed all the information. So many of us learned to shoot with a Nylon 66. I have fond memories and I am glad so many others do also.

That is why I purchased one about 4 years ago. I had a blast shooting it.

[jeremiah12]

Nice. Scope & mount seem to match the vintage. Details on the scope?

I just looked at the scope and the only marking I can find on it is J.C. Higgins and 4x. I have not had a chance to do any research on it.

I do have more history on the rifle and in a way it has come full circle.

It is a very long story but I will give the short version.

It was owned by my step-father who lives in ID. He came into my life when I was in high school and was the first stable father in my life. I called him dad and still do. Shortly after he married my mom, I started dating the woman whom I married. My step-father and FIL got along great.

When I went off to college, my mother divorced him and he moved back to ID, where he was originally from. Well, his father gave him the rifle. His father bought it new and left it the cabin in northern ID. They live in Boise. His dad was cleaning out the cabin to sell as his wife had passed away and he was getting too old to hunt and snowmobile. He gave the rifle to my step-father, his only surviving son, who is actually his step-son but he always treated like a son (he married his mother when my step-father was 4).

Well, my youngest brother, a real trouble maker, was getting involved in gangs in high school and was in serious trouble. My mom shipped him to his step-father in Boise. My step-father gave him the rifle so he had something to go hunting with. Well, my brother got in trouble with gangs and was arrested and because my mom was his legal guardian, the court said he had to come back to CA.

My mom had already left CA to travel and had a traveling nurse job. So I went to get him. My FIL came with me and my step-father gave us the rifle to take back and give to my brother. That was not going to happen. My little brother did graduate to bigger and better and is doing life in Oregon now.

I did not want my brother to harrass us about it so my FIL took it and was going to give it to my mom when she returned.

I forgot about it.

A month before my FIL passed he told me he had two rifles that belonged to me. I knew he had my black powder rifle that I had not shot in years. He had refinished it for me. I had no idea what the other was and two days before I was supposed to go over and pick them up, he went to the hospital and that was it. I was confused because I only knew about the BP rifle. So when my MIL handed me the Nylon 66 and said she did not want it, I took it. It did not have a serial number and I have a FLL03 and COE so I could legally take possession without involving her or my wife.

I told my son about it because I was sure it was his grandfather's and he told me he shot it with his grandfather a few times.

I spoke to my step-father today and asked him about the gun he gave my brother and he said it was a Nylon 66 with an old scope. It all fell into place.

I asked him if he wanted me to return it and he said no, I can keep it. So it is still going to my son. I have a two week break in two weeks so I will drive it out and transfer it at his FFL. Then we can both shoot it in rememberance of his grandfather.

[Killer Bee]

your JC Higgins scope is probably a 4x Rifleman made by Weaver..

I have two of Nick Stroebel's vintage rifle scope and gun sights books..

I can look it up if you send the exact info on it..

[bds1012]

My father gave me one when I turned 10. That was 48 years ago. I will not. Sell it. I still take it to the range. The gun went to college with me in Nevada. I still have it. My daughters are going to argue over it when I am gone.

[redcliff]

I have an Apache black purchased new in the early 80's. I plan to give it to my grandson in a year or two. Mine has always been extremely reliable and is a pleasure to shoot. A little history of the early promotion of the Nylon 66 by Remington:
"In 1959, Tom Frye, a field representative for Remington, set out to surpass Ad Topperwein's world record (set in 1907) of shooting 72,500 2 1/2-inch wooden blocks as they were tossed into the air while missing only nine. Frye used three Nylon 66 rifles and maintained an average pace of 1,000 shots per hour (one shot every four seconds) for 13 consecutive eight-hour days. When the smoke cleared, he had shot at 100,010 blocks and hit 100,004, missing only six! The rifles were cleaned only five times during the Marathon trial."

https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/the-remington-nylon-66/

[vxvxn11]

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.

Congratulations. That's very thoughtful of you to pass it on to your son. And I'm sure he will be very glad to have it because he has gone shooting with it when his grandfather was alive.

[beerman]

I have an Apache black purchased new in the early 80's. I plan to give it to my grandson in a year or two. Mine has always been extremely reliable and is a pleasure to shoot. A little history of the early promotion of the Nylon 66 by Remington:
"In 1959, Tom Frye, a field representative for Remington, set out to surpass Ad Topperwein's world record (set in 1907) of shooting 72,500 2 1/2-inch wooden blocks as they were tossed into the air while missing only nine. Frye used three Nylon 66 rifles and maintained an average pace of 1,000 shots per hour (one shot every four seconds) for 13 consecutive eight-hour days. When the smoke cleared, he had shot at 100,010 blocks and hit 100,004, missing only six! The rifles were cleaned only five times during the Marathon trial."

https://www.americanrifleman.org/con...gton-nylon-66/

[pacrat]

jeremiah12 said in OP;

I found a familiar .22 from my youth, a Remington Nylon 66.

Thanks for the stroll down memory lane. I got mine in Feb. of 1968. At the Company Store of Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach, Ca. Very first gun I bought new OTC. No GCA BS or nuffin. Just signed the payroll deduction agreement using my Co ID, and walked out the door with it.

Price was $49.95, and I paid it off in 10 weeks @ $5 a week payroll deductions.

ETA .... It's still in the back of one of the safes. One of the grandkids will get a similar surprise as you did some day.

[beerman]

attachment.jpg Here's a photo of mine.

[JustJoshinYa]

Was at my parents today having lunch and helping clean some guns, a glock 17, and S&W bodyguard 380. My dad took out a rifle his father left him when he passed away, my grandfather had won it in a shooting competition and it sat under my parents bed for about 40 years until it went into the safe a few years back. My dad asked me if I could clean the rifle also, I said no problem.

I pull the rifle out of the case and there sits a Remington nylon 66 in Seneca green with a vintage scope on it. I'm very unfamiliar with the rifle I've never shot it and neither has my dad, I didn't know how to clean it or anything so I headed onto calguns to see what this rifle is all about. I'm currently looking at how to clean it and get the magazine tube out. The gun is in pristine condition but is covered in wool fibers from the case.

Will clean it next week and hopefully take it to the range with my parents to shoot it. Apparently my grandfather was into guns and shot a lot in matches and won many guns as prizes including this nylon 66. Theres another rifle in the safe I've never seen its currently in a case it's my mom's 22 rifle she bought at kmart in the late 70s I didn't have a chance to check it out will next week.

[beerman]

Josh, turn the loading tube handle counter-clockwise 1/4 turn and pull the tube straight out. I wouldn’t disassemble to clean it ( since it’s not been shot much) just run an oiled patch thru the bore. I have the original manual around somewhere for mine. I’ll photo it and post it tomorrow ( time permitting) it has the parts list and blowup. Seneca’s are pretty rare and valuable.

[Killer Bee]

[ATTACH]1071993[/ATTACH] Here's a photo of mine.

wowzers - that's amazing!

[Killer Bee]

here ya go - nylon 66 manual several originals and repops to choose from..

seller BrowningFN has a ton of originals - I have a current order of 11 items I purchased this morning..

RTFM and good luck!