Rem Nylon 66

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A friend of mine loaned a friend of his $150 and took his Nylon 66 as collateral. His friend flaked, and now I can buy the gun for $150. The stock is a little beat up, but he says it shoots just fine and has a scope too. At that price, I can't see a reason to say no. Thoughts?
 
Any decent semi .22 is worth 150. Tell me though, what color is it? A very early version was an off color drab green, harder to find. Not the later model sold at K-mart in a green color. I have a Black Diamond that is a very good shooter.
Someone correct me on the details of that.
 
It's the much more common Mohawk Brown. I'm going to check it out Wednesday. I'll probably buy it, as long as my common sense saying "Don't spend money!" doesn't prevail. Ha, it usually doesn't.
 
Make sure it is a remington and not a CRC...or whatever they are called, not that the guns made in Brazil are bad or anything they are just not worth what a real nylon is worth....if it is not a remington it is actually worth about $150.

I have both...they are great fun shooters....the original plastic gun...glock owners think they invented this stuff....heck remington did it in the 1960's.

Great little rifles.
 
I forgot to say the most easy way to tell....if you turn the gun over, on the heal it will say remington if it is a real remington. I guess people could fake one, but I don't think there is much point.

It is my go to fun 22...so light and it shoots very straight.....sorry I babble but I am a fan boy of these rifles.
 
Save yourself some aggrivation and take the scope off. While the receiver is grooved for a scope mount, the nylons are not rigid enough for a scope and you'll be poor groups.
 
If you don't want it, I'll gladly pay the $150 and send you a pre-paid FedEx label to ship it to me.

You can keep the scope ... won't work worth a *&#^ on that rifle.
 
Mine did fine with a scope. shot around 1.5-2"s at 50yds, which i might add is alot better then i could do with the open sights LOL. I loved that rifle, probably my favorite .22 so far.
 
Had a Mohawk Brown Nylon 66 as a teen. Fun rifle. Just DO NOT take it too far apart...you will find out why thery were called "Brown Bag guns"...when you took it too far apart, ya had to take it to the local 'smith in a Brown Bag or 2......

Never mind HOW I know...I just know

Or was that Apache Brown & Mohawk Black? I don't remember, but my Nylon 66 was brown, blue receiver cover/barrel
 
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Go ahead and get it. If you have children, they will enjoy shooting it. At least mine did. I have a Black Diamond and it was their favorite. Shoots good, too. It's funny to me, I went to the exchange to get a 1022 on sale, they were out. I got the Remington instead and it was a winner.
 
Get it and enjoy it. They are reliable, fun and unique. Be careful with the stock as they are very hard to find. Careful with the charging handle (cocking handle) they can get loose and then fall out when not paying attention. I have had mine since my 12th birthday. Present from Uncle. Pre-serial number from early 60"s and has been used to bring many youngsters into the world of shooting. There is a nylon 66 web sight with dis-assembly videos and information. Numrich has some parts for them. $150.00 is a good buy.

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Nice little rifle. Get it. I took mine totally apart ( early 60's )when I was a teen and took 2 weeks to get it back together.

I found that using aluminum arrows as speedloaders makes it easier to charge.

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Well, to me that is $145.00 too much. One of the most worthless .22 autos I've ever owned. I got one free from a co-worker with a busted stock, sent it in to Remington for a rebuild under warranty and couldn't wait to get rid of it. Sold it to a neighbor for $50.00.

Cheap, crappy sights, plastic parts all over, inaccurate, piece-o-junk IMO.

That's just my personal opinion.

Dan
 
I still have one that I was shooting over 30 years ago. It is accurate and dependable. It shot more than 4k rounds before it was ever cleaned. I love mine and would not part with it. I have seen them sell for way more than $150. Personally if you dont want it I would give more than $150 for it as long as it functions correctly. I am setious too. I think you should buy it and try it out, if it shoots and you dont like it, there are some of us on the forum that will give you your money back, heck, I would even let you make a little.
 
+1 on being in love with that plastic thing.

And if i had had those arrow-speedloaders back then ...
..... i´d have shot 10 times the amount of ammo.
 
The nylon 66 was designed by Remington's engineers to be the most relaible .22 ever built. They may be ugly and not as accurate as other .22's, but with decent ammo they will go bang everytime you pull the trigger and are plently accurate enough (just don't try and mount a scope on one). I had one that I bought new 45 years ago and I probably shot it close to 100k rounds. I did have some missfires with Remington's famous golden bullet, but it never jamed. It was several decades before I took it down to clean it and there was so much crud on the feed ramp that I had to take my pocket knife to shave it off. The inside was as dirty as any gun I have ever seen, yet it continued to function perfectely. It was my truck gun for several decades and never failed me.
 
Mine is Apache Black. The grandkids like it (and so do I) because it's so darn light and easy to shoot.

I put a cheapie scope (Burris IIRC) on it and use a Spee-D-Lodr that I labeled for the Nylon 66 with 14 rounds in the tubes for fast range reloads.

Cheap, fun to shoot and thanks to spray cleaners like Gun Blaster and Bore Snakes, easy to clean up after.
 
Tom Frye. :)

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