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Re: Nylon 66 [Re: arcticotter] #7362493
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I shot lots of grub on the trapline with mine.The weak part was the plastic magazine,but those are replaceable.I replaced my 66 for use on the trapline with a viper.The nylon 66 was a better shooting gun(accuracy wise) than the viper,but the viper was a tougher gun for the trapline.

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Re: Nylon 66 [Re: Cannon Ball] #7362498
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Originally Posted by Cannon Ball
I coon hunted back in the 80's with my uncle and that was what we carried. Silver with the black stock Always wanted one of my own but just never got around to finding one that was clean. A fine little rifle

About 10 years ago, I found a used one in a local sporting goods store called the Apache grade. It was in pristine condition. I asked the store owner why the guy got rid of it? It seems he traded it in on one of those small Browning semi-auto rifles. He took the Remington out hunting once and got a scratch in the stock and felt it was too fancy to take out into the woods hunting. So, he traded on the Browning.

That seemed silly to me. But, I took it home, got to looking at it, and how it looked brand new. I never did take it hunting. I use it for "show & tell" in our firearms training classes. I tell the kids it's a semi-auto, tubular fed, and ask them if they can figure out where the tube is? We have a lot of fun with that.


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Re: Nylon 66 [Re: claycreech] #7362506
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Originally Posted by claycreech
Okay
I may be way off the base here.
I’d just never heard such praise for the 66.

I've been shooting one since I got one in 1975,never heard anybody call it a cheap piece of crap,maybe that's a regional thing.I remember them as being popular when I was a kid,I love mine.


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Re: Nylon 66 [Re: arcticotter] #7362508
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Re: Nylon 66 [Re: arcticotter] #7362510
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Re: Nylon 66 [Re: arcticotter] #7362513
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Did anyone own the remington nylon 76 trailrider lever action model?
I see one recently sold at auction for $1400

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Re: Nylon 66 [Re: arcticotter] #7362529
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Brings back memories for me...I attempted to take my 66 apart for a good cleaning in the late 1980s.
I had the side plates off and slowly removed the barrel and watched as a spring went sailing across the room along with a few other small parts. Being all thumbs at the time I never could put the darn thing back together so it functioned correctly.
Ended up selling at a gun show for 40 bucks to an old gun smith

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Re: Nylon 66 [Re: arcticotter] #7362538
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Remington 77 was a clip feed Semi auto rifle, a Nylon 66, was a tube fed semi auto, Nylon 12, was bolt action, tube feed, 76 trail rider was a lever action tube feed and a 10 was a clip feed semi auto too. All with the nylon stock. They came in black, brown and green stocks and I read purple, although I have never seen one. Blued and chrome finish 19" & 24" barrels. . I am not sure if all models came in the chrome finish. There was also a Model 11 and 12.

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Re: Nylon 66 [Re: arcticotter] #7362546
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That ad with the trapper sold a lot of those rifles


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Re: Nylon 66 [Re: arcticotter] #7362552
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I saw a Nylon 66 chambered in .30 carbine once back in the early '70's,apparently it was a nylon frankensteined by a gunsmith,as I never heard of such a thing.


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Re: Nylon 66 [Re: arcticotter] #7362567
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That must have required a lot of modification on the bolt assembly


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Re: Nylon 66 [Re: hippie] #7362630
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Originally Posted by hippie

Wow! I paid $110 for mine and it looks newer than that one.


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Re: Nylon 66 [Re: Buck (Zandra)] #7362633
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Originally Posted by Buck (Zandra)
Originally Posted by claycreech
Okay
I may be way off the base here.
I’d just never heard such praise for the 66.

I've been shooting one since I got one in 1975,never heard anybody call it a cheap piece of crap,maybe that's a regional thing.I remember them as being popular when I was a kid,I love mine.

My friend from school had the cheaper grade of the 66. He loved it. He said it never jammed and was very accurate.


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Re: Nylon 66 [Re: Trapper7] #7362636
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My friend from school had the cheaper grade of the 66. He loved it. He said it never jammed and was very accurate.[/quote]
If I remember right that was the Mohawk,that was a long time ago,I could be wrong.That was my first one,paid $39.99 for it at Kmart in '75.Took a 10 shot magazine.


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Re: Nylon 66 [Re: arcticotter] #7362951
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Thats the one I got.
I got mine around 1974.Here in Canada they marketed the Nylon 77-black with a tube magazine and it was the "Apache"The other was the Nylon 66-brown with a clip magazine called the "Mohawk"

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Re: Nylon 66 [Re: Buck (Zandra)] #7363081
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Originally Posted by Buck (Zandra)
Originally Posted by claycreech
Okay
I may be way off the base here.
I’d just never heard such praise for the 66.

I've been shooting one since I got one in 1975,never heard anybody call it a cheap piece of crap,maybe that's a regional thing.I remember them as being popular when I was a kid,I love mine.

Remington had a ad that told of the 66 being used to break over 100,000 wood blocks thrown in the air without a malfunction. That ad was in all the outdoor magazines when I was a kid. A buddy had a Apache that we shot a zillion rounds through, I loved that little rifle. This got me thinking I might need to go buy one,lol.

Re: Nylon 66 [Re: arcticotter] #7363083
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When the Nylon 66 first came on the market, Remington was also making chainsaws. Remington had a promo where if you purchased a chainsaw, they gave you a Nylon 66. That’s how my Grandfather acquired his Nylon66. He always told me, after running the chainsaw, he realized why they gave him the rifle. Because after running the saw, you would want to shoot yourself.

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Re: Nylon 66 [Re: Squash] #7363110
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Originally Posted by Squash
When the Nylon 66 first came on the market, Remington was also making chainsaws. Remington had a promo where if you purchased a chainsaw, they gave you a Nylon 66. That’s how my Grandfather acquired his Nylon66. He always told me, after running the chainsaw, he realized why they gave him the rifle. Because after running the saw, you would want to shoot yourself.





That's funny

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Re: Nylon 66 [Re: slowpoke] #7363124
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Not the same rifle. I got my cooey 22, single shot. As a promotion, When I bought a Moto Ski snowmobile. Still have and use it. It was my coon huntin and trapping gun for many years. Lived mostly behind the seat , of my truck. old243

Re: Nylon 66 [Re: Boco] #7363134
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Originally Posted by Boco
Thats the one I got.
I got mine around 1974.Here in Canada they marketed the Nylon 77-black with a tube magazine and it was the "Apache"The other was the Nylon 66-brown with a clip magazine called the "Mohawk"



I think the name pertained only to the color. When new, mine had a brown stock and the box called it a Mohawk (that would be racist today) but it has the tubular magazine. After changing the stock a few times it now wears the black stock that was original on the Apache (also racist). When Remington sent me the current black stock with white diamonds they also included a letter saying it was the last stock they had and that's why they sent black instead of brown.
It still shoots the same and I guess it's still racist regardless of color


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