Nylon 66

[351 WINCHESTER]

I had a book on rimfire rifles from years ago, and inside was a story about a man, who's name I can't remember, that shot 100k 2"x2" wood blocks thrown into the air with a Nylon 66. I will see if I can find the story.

Found it. Tom Frye.
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+greatest+shot+with+a+.22-a0501078909

I read that article when I was a kid. As I recall those blocks were 2 1/2" and he only missed 6. He hired three boys for tossing the wooden blocks and for reloading the 66's.

 

[351 WINCHESTER]

Local shop has a Seneca Green and the price tag reads “Not For Sale”

-kBob

I had a chance to buy a Seneca Green from a good friend, but honestly I had a hard time telling the difference from the brown ones. Besides he wanted too much money.

 

[JCooperfan1911]

I have had mine for a couple decades now. I have not had issue one with it and it is one of my most shot 22's.

Far better then anything made today.

This is the first place I have read about them being "brittle" and "age not kind". Mine is no different then when I first got it. It is the plinking automatic that always comes with me.

The rather primitive nylon-66 plastic does get brittle with age, and is very sensitive to moisture changes. In fact, it does better in a moist environment than a dry one.

The plastic just doesn’t hold up, and is quite weak compared to any polymer used in gun making today. Worse, it is a notoriously difficult plastic to repair if (or rather when) it cracks.

I’ve often thought a reintroduction of the series but using the TREMENDOUSLY superior polymers we have available today would be a hit. Keep the design and all other parts the same, just update the polymer and you’d have a winner winner chicken dinner.

 

[Remington1911]

The rather primitive nylon-66 plastic does get brittle with age, and is very sensitive to moisture changes. In fact, it does better in a moist environment than a dry one.

The plastic just doesn’t hold up, and is quite weak compared to any polymer used in gun making today. Worse, it is a notoriously difficult plastic to repair if (or rather when) it cracks.

I’ve often thought a reintroduction of the series but using the TREMENDOUSLY superior polymers we have available today would be a hit. Keep the design and all other parts the same, just update the polymer and you’d have a winner winner chicken dinner.

If you say so, I can say mine, and the one other I have seen are still going strong. However I doubt I would drive over it like they did when it was first released.

Sorry yours is having issues.

I was thinking after making my post the other day, and really if it is not a single shot or bolt action the little nylon is the 22 that goes with me, and it always goes when tossing 22's in the wagon. I think I will run at least a tube through it when it is out, Fast or slow, steel or paper. I don't know what it is about it but I sure do like it. Mine is black, not sure if I said that before, and I would love a lever.

That would be another thing that would be great to see come back, but it will never happen.

Perhaps I am just weird, hell I know I am weird, I have been drooling over a Daisy 22 for years, should have bought it years ago, they only get more expensive. For some reason people will pay that for them even today.

Hay Roundhill if you ever want to do something besides milk a company dry I doubt I am alone in saying I would buy a new 66 if it came out and priced along the lines of the old one in relation to todays market. Not going to hold my breath.

 

[Spats McGee]

I'd like to shoot a Nylon 66, just to try one out. I'm not $1000 interested, though.

 

[JCooperfan1911]

The rather primitive nylon-66 plastic does get brittle with age, and is very sensitive to moisture changes. In fact, it does better in a moist environment than a dry one.

The plastic just doesn’t hold up, and is quite weak compared to any polymer used in gun making today. Worse, it is a notoriously difficult plastic to repair if (or rather when) it cracks.

I’ve often thought a reintroduction of the series but using the TREMENDOUSLY superior polymers we have available today would be a hit. Keep the design and all other parts the same, just update the polymer and you’d have a winner winner chicken dinner.

I own three. One is a “beater” (though still in very good shape) and the other two are both mint unfired. One is first year production. All are Mohawk brown.

 

[351 WINCHESTER]

My first 66 was my constant companion. It went with me wherever I went. My Dad told me I needed to sell it and get a new one as the barrel much be shot out. I took his advice and regret it now because there was nothing wrong with it. Dad used to give me his old golf balls and I would practice shooting them out of the air using stingers. I shot hand tossed quarters and hit square the stinger would go right thru. I can't do it now, but back in the day I was quite the shot.

 

[Remington1911]

My first 66 was my constant companion. It went with me wherever I went. My Dad told me I needed to sell it and get a new one as the barrel much be shot out. I took his advice and regret it now because there was nothing wrong with it. Dad used to give me his old golf balls and I would practice shooting them out of the air using stingers. I shot hand tossed quarters and hit square the stinger would go right thru. I can't do it now, but back in the day I was quite the shot.

The wife tells stories of her shooting peach pits (seeds) in her yard when she was growing up. After that I knew I better not make her too mad at me.

 

[JCooperfan1911]

My N66:



I’ve got two others, both in mint condition (this one is excellent + condition). I still consider them to be a fragile and lackluster gun compared to the options we have today. I plan on keeping mine as the relics they are and eventually selling them for a huge profit on someone who values them far more than I do.

 

[kBob]

I wonder id CBC in Brazil might still have any stocks laying about or could still make new ones?

If they still have the molds in stock perhaps they could use a “modern” plastic in them to make replacement stocks.

Unfortunately I do not speak Portuguese.

Other than an ejector I have not tried swapping parts between the CBC gun and a Remington.

The trigger on the CBC gun seems metal while the Remington is plastic so I do not know if a CBC stock would work with all Remington parts.

So far I have not had a Nylon 66 stock break.

-kBob

 

[HarryB]

My dad bought a Mohawk 10C for fifty bucks in a gunstore across the street from my school when I was eight. It is now in my cabinet and still fun to shoot. Not a tack driver, but cans quake with fear in its presence.

 

[DustyGmt]

Stopped at a local gun shop yesterday, and walked out with a Nylon 66 in Mohawk Brown and a Marlin Glenfield model 60. Both priced very reasonably.
They also had a Nylon 66 on consignment in Seneca Green. 1st one I’ve ever seen in person. But it was priced accordingly at $1000. I left it hanging on the wall. Here’s a pic of the Mohawk, the Marlin is already at my daughters.
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I now feel really stupid, a kid from my hometown where I grew up came back after trying to make it in Maine for about 8 years, when he came back he had a few guns for sale. One he said he wouldn't sell because it's what he grew up using, unless somebody offered him some crazy amount, like $250. .

I didn't buy it or offer him that "crazy" amount because I thought my 10/22's were better but had I known how collectible and cherished they were I would have given him the $250

 

[HarryB]

Bass Pro has a used 66 for $459

https://www.basspro.com/shop/en/101413299

 

[CapnMac]

Ah but do any of you guys have a GR8 rifle?

I have both, actually.

 

[benEzra]

My Dad gave me a non functional, surface-rusty Mohawk brown nylon 66 a few months ago, if I decide to do anything it is truly a project rifle.

It has something jammed in the action, the charging handle snapped off at the level of the bolt and the fore end is chipped and cracked where it fell and hit the corner of the patio.

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Cool idea, but I haven’t ever been much of a fan.

Stay safe.

The charging handle removes from the bolt to enable disassembly, so it might also have been removed (accidentally or while attempting disassembly) at some point and misplaced or lost. The good thing is that you might be able to find or fabricate a replacement.

These things were tricky to disassemble and clean, but I only had to ever do mine once (I ordered the owners manual from Remington to do so). I eventually sold it, which I greatly regret now since it was the rifle my dad taught to shoot with.

 

[theotherwaldo]

Most Nylon 66 small parts can be found on EBay, original or repro... .