Nylon 66

I recently acquired a Remington Nylon 66. It’s an older model that has a larger head on the wind age screw. The screw I have is bent and I’m trying to track down an old original one. I purchased 1 from Jack First gun parts and it’s not quite right. Anyone have a gunsmith or parts guy that might have one?

Try numrich.

All they have is after market

That's what I figured. The supply of original has probably dried up then.

https://www.gunpartscorp.com/products/77940A


But out of stock

Hope ya find one. Those are darn nice little rifles

Mine has a large head screw on the rear sight elevation adjustment...
this has a Philip type slot , with a knurled edge .. it is finger adjustable..


the windage screw has no head , just a slot for a fine screw driver ...
Which are you looking for ?

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Mine is the same. Great little rifle. I have killed literally hundreds of pounds of food with it. Have replaced the "unbreakable" stock three times. On my fourth now.

Three stocks !!! What do you do - run over it with snowmobile ... :-)

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

They get pretty brittle at 40-60 below

My windage screw also is knurled but is slot headed. You could turn it by hand if it wasn’t bent.

What vintage is it Arcticotter ? I don't think I have ever seen one like that

I’ll try and figure out what year it is. I’ve got the Remington 22 Rimfire Rifles book and it states that the early models had this type of screw.

Interesting. Mine was new in 1970 so yours must be older than that

Mine is like the top one in the picture.

That's a new one on me. Hope you can find one.

Just a thought.............there were clones of these rifles made in South America. No idea of what years but if all else fails maybe another place to look.

Seems to me Big Bob told me about these years ago.

I’m guessing I won’t find a large head screw. Just want a factor one of either type.

The book says pre 1964 for the larger screw

I don't blame you. I think the large head would be pretty handy......but it might be vulnerable too

https://www.ebay.com/itm/333918632255?hash=item4dbf19f93f:g:QY8AAOSwLNpbkG9Q
https://www.ebay.com/itm/274898940021?hash=item400140f075:g:-dQAAOSw4c9hEfAV

... either of those work?

Tiny little screw on my 66

Interesting, mine is like the bottom pic ...
It seems it's not a standard thread - more like a worm type thread .. not sure ..

I know of a gun shop in Florida that has a few of them on the wall. Not obscene prices but they are proud of them. $265 or so?????

My brother had one stolen out of his truck. I bought him one for Christmas last year. They can be a bit pricey.

Contact the Gun Works of Central NY, they do all of Remingtons warranty work, they may have the part you need.

Anybody have an exploded view of the Nylon 66 they could make a copy of to send to me, even by E-mail would be great. A buddy Grand kid took one apart and it lives in a shoebox now. LOL

Anybody have an exploded view of the Nylon 66 they could make a copy of to send to me, even by E-mail would be great. A buddy Grand kid took one apart and it lives in a shoebox now. LOL
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Thanks

Thanks Brother!

They are pretty intuitive to put together............BUT.................the feed ramp can be a real witch to get in place and keep it there.

The instructions I have from Remington say to....."balance the feed ramp on the eraser end of a long pencil and feed it up into positions from below" prior to installing the trigger guard assembly.

Gave me fits the first time I replaced the stock. I'll bet it took 50 tries.......maybe more to be successful

I had feed issues with mine . I took it apart and reassembled mine , but it was not right ...
They can be a challenge to get working right ... I found a gunsmith firm that had a nylon 66 expert on staff ...
He fixed my 66 , runs awesome now ...

The windage screw on mine has a knurled head that is slotted. It is about as big around as a BB. The head is long for the diameter. It looks like the one's ADC posted a link too. Mine has a OD green stock. Not the most common color. I bought it used in the early 1980's with a Weaver K-4 and a case for $50. I bought two 10-22s the same week for $50 each.

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong,but the green indicates you have the Seneca model,I believe those are the most sought and pricey

30% of them where Seneca green until 1962.

I have the Bicentennial 1976 model.
Garage sale find yrs ago.
Some pitting on it but worked great.
Not much use for it anymore.
I stashed it away

I’m a bit shocked with the number of folks claiming how wonderful of a rifle the Nylon 66 is.
I thought it was a widely accepted fact that they were a cheap piece of crap.
I know that their value skyrocketed in the last few years, but the reason is certainly not because folks were looking for a tack driving, high quality .22 rifle.
That said, I wish I had a truck load of them.

Actually I do consider mine a tack driver. It will shoot much finer than I can hold. Probably the most accurate rifle I have ever owned.

Okay
I may be way off the base here.
I’d just never heard such praise for the 66.

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.

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.

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.

Here's one for sale.....

https://www.sarcoinc.com/remington-nylon-66/

Did anyone own the remington nylon 76 trailrider lever action model?
I see one recently sold at auction for $1400

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

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.

That ad with the trapper sold a lot of those rifles

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.

That must have required a lot of modification on the bolt assembly

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

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

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.

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"

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.

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

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

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

Here is ad from fur fish and game, October 1977.
Thought you might enjoy this.

Every time I see a 66 my mind automatically drifts back to those fall hunts in the mid '70's when we were kids small game hunting.Squirrels were our main targets,with an occasional rabbit..22 rounds were cheap and everywhere,when we weren't hunting we were target practising.We had many delicious fried squirrel dinners thanks to the 66's.Good times!