Nylon 66 Guys

It isn't everyday you run across this and I know some of you will appreciate looking at these.

wow. I would love to have one of those.

Big money right there

My trapping buddy in high school had one of those. Seeing you pic brings back some memories. Thanks

I have the mohawk brown one - have had it since I was 10 years old. In the first 20ish years of owning it I believe I cleaned it once and it has never jammed or misfired. In the last 20 years of owning it, it has been treated with a lot more respect (kept clean).

I wonder how many guys on here will remember opening one at Christmas or the day they bought theirs and it looked just like these.

Nice find , they look brand new in the box , unfired , with tags ...
I still have a Black Diamond ...the nylon 66 are bringing good money today ..
For sale ?

Wow....... that's a great find. I have 2 mohawk browns that are retired to the back of my gun safes. My brother has an Apache Black nylon 66... I offered to buy it from him but he won't sell. Ive tried to buy one every now and then.... seems to always bring more than I want them too. Thrat them guns like fragile glass because if you break a stock I think you can,t get a new one anymore. Are those for sale??/

Yes, both are brand spanking new in the box with all the tags and the original sales receipt.

Thirty six years ago, last Christmas, I opened up the box on my Black Diamond Nylon 66. Still have it.

I know a guy that had a 76 that he sold for $2500.00

I remember buying one at a gun show for 70 bucks...great shooter until I decided to take it apart for a good cleaning...bad idea.

My grandfather had one, I carried it raccoon hunting and shot many while hunting with hounds. He acquired the rifle when Remington made chainsaws, it was a promo, purchase a saw, receive a nylon 66. The rifle was the best part of the deal. My granddad always said after he ran the saw he understood why they gave you the rifle. Because you wanted to shoot yourself.

Hexx, those boxes alone are worth a hundred bucks each, I'm looking for a Smith mod. 19 4in. Box now.

I have that box..........except it has a new 4 inch model 19 in it.

Did you find it locally or online? Would you be interested in selling?

I have an inherited smooth bore .22 from about mid sixties.
Don't know much about it. Might have cracked stock if I recall, have to look at it.

Dang, just my luck. I'm always on the lookout for Smith boxes. All the older mom n pop gun shops know what they got, and are hard to deal with. Got lucky Jinks put me onto a set of brand new, old stock, grips. Only need the box now.

When I placed my first order to Buckeye Sports in 1971 there was a nylon 66 on it. I sold serval through the years always had one in the rack to sell. Had a coon hunter that bought serval each year in the gallery model when he take a friend hunting they would buy his rifle he would buy a new one from me, They were a great gun and yes i did have one also.

I saw a couple used 66's in a gun shop in Orlando about a year ago for around $300 each. I didn't need one.

Since when does the word "need" enter into a gun buying discussion?

I don't know why those can't be brought back. I know the original tooling supposedly was totally worn out when they went away but surely with the advances in polymers and cnc it shouldn't be that difficult.

I have the Bicentennial model.
Probably be sold the next Kalamazoo trapping convention.
Downsizing my collection .

last gun show had a few , you could buy a brand new 10/22 delux for what they wanted for an old nylon in ok shape.

A hunter friend of mine has 8 or 10 of various models of the Nylon 66 that he has acquired over the years. I am going to send him the link to this thread. He will enjoy it.

Very nice. I have the black diamond. Lots of miles

Very cool, Rob! I used to own one back in the day and got a lot of use out of it. It was relatively bulletproof and trouble free and put down a lot of critters.

At your age I assumed you had a "Rock 66" that was carved out of stone.

I’ve still got mine and my dad has a couple too.

I have a brown one but it's a lever action.

Carved out of wood that has since petrified.

I have one with a green stock. I wish I had not used it as hard as I did now. I would have been better off beating my 10-22 to death.

I've got one in Mohawk Brown.Love it

How much are you selling them for 160? I never liked the looks of them myself.

Best all around, knock around .22 simi auto design to date IMO.

The sixty-six is what the 10/22 wishes it could be.

X2!

I'd take the bet I'd out shoot the 66 with a 10/22 any day. Well, 30 years ago with younger eyes.

Just came in from running the dog and shooting my 66 over the top of him. Was a Christmas gift from mom 1967, she got it at Western Auto store. It's in the will, it goes in the grave with me........ Tomorrow we up grade to the 4/10. Dang crazy seeing those new in the box!! Thanks fir sharing.

Can't ever beat a gift from Mama!!

I listed and sold them on another site. I just thought the pictures may take folks down memory lane.

Found a nylon 66 in the river and all the parts were rust. Not sure how long it was in the river.

You could have just said....."they aren't for sale". That would have been true because you already sold them But NO ! You had to make it clear that your friends don't really come first !

I'm wondering if you need a vacation ?

Gunbroker still has a NIB black and chrome for $1500 buy it now.

I remember the ad for them in outdoor magazines. A guy in hip boots with a pack basket on, standing in a creek with a number one longspring in one hand and the nylon 66 in the other.

And the one with the guy shooting 10,000 blocks of wood in the air with no malfunctions

But, they are so ugly and plastic. lol

Catch I’ve owned three of the 66. The first was accurate enough to shoot at shot shell primers at fifteen, twenty yards and expect to hit them.

I have worked on and shot dozens of customers Ruger 10/22s and that’s the reason I have never owned one.
It’s not a bad design, in my opinion the Remington is just better.

Capacity 15 to 10. Remington super easy to load. No magazine to lose.
Accuracy 66–under 1/2” 10/22– under 3/4” five shots off bench at 25 yards. I After market target bull bbls and machined bedding block stocks not a fair comparison, I’m saying stock rifle to stock rifle of the original design.
Rely ability; Usually the only 66s in the shop were there to be reassembled after the owners couldn’t. or to be refinished. 10/22 most common reason be in shop Failure to feed, followed by Failure to eject.
Durability I refer you to previous posts about multiple thousands of rounds through a simi auto without cleaning
Heck I even helped a fellow dealer at a gun show get a 10/22.new out of the box to where the bolt would slide. (Poor machine work on chassis.)
Ugly yep. The Remington wins again but ya gotta admit the shark fin on the front is kinda cool
Resale! Collectabity well again stock to stock really no comparison . Just personal experience.

160user thanks for the memories, sorry I got a little sideways there.

Onw of the iconic guns reliable, light, accurate and affordable not sure why remington did not continue to make them.

The 10/22 was made with an aluminum receiver and a steel barrel fitted to the receiver via an ingenious dovetail feature that allowed for easy disassembly. The blow-back action made it fairly simple to keep clean and functioning. Its patented 10-shot, rotary magazine was an improved version of the Mannlicher-Schoenauer magazine first developed by Steyr, and proved to be remarkably well suited to .22-caliber ammo. This design functioned significantly better than most tubular-, single- or double-stack magazines.

John “Chief AJ” Huffer set a world record in 1987 by shooting 40,060 thrown wooden blocks that measured only 2.5 inches without a miss or a malfunction over a period of seven consecutive days using 18 different Ruger 10/22’s. His single-day record was 8,900 blocks.

I will just let the chips fall

I have one in Mohawk Brown... A friend has one in Apache Black.
Mine is a '76 model - love it!! (Except for the huge front sight!!)

I had one as a kid.
Was thumbing through some old 70s fur fish and game and found this ad.

I don't think the tooling was worn out. Supposedly they sold it to CBC in Brazil. I have one of those,Same gun,jam-proof,and accurate.

I have two in the gun safe. One I have had since the early 70's and the other traded for a while back.
The one from the 70's has jillion trap line miles on it. Could not guess the number of dispatch shots it has made.
Never had a malfunction with any ammo. Weighs a couple of pounds and holds 14 rounds.
Retired them when I saw what they bring now.
Roy

Cheif AJ's guns were also a production gun gone over in great detail to resolve the manufacturing issues of production.

true up the breach face , radius the back edge of the bolt , re-chamber and cut extractor groove , polish the the bolt , re-crown the muzzle and give it a trigger job.

it's a little like saying a Wilson combat 1911 is production , Wilson Combat figures out how to take good to a whole new level much like Chief AJ.

also what kept Cheif AJ from doing more was his legs swole up so bad he couldn't stand any more

as for the age old tube vs magazine I think it has a lot to do with how you hunt

if you leave your gun loaded all the time and step out the back door and go hunting and never unload tube is great nothing to get lost

if you have to unload every time you get to the truck to transport , the tube is a real pain and the box magazine is the way to go , I was in the unload every time returning to the truck so I like box mags

the 10 round rotary mags definitely work well and can be dissembled and cleaned and wound a little tighter if need be when you re-assemble them

I have one of each of those two. Neither one near as nice as them two!!!

Got a Mini 14 Chief AJ did for me many years ago and still shoots like a million bucks...

Bought a Mohawk Brown 1972 i think, didn't care for it and sold it pretty fast Only good memory of it was when my Ma looked at it she said there's a gun I can shoot so we went in back of the house and she shot it once handed it back an said Now I can say I shot a gun

They made a nylon that took a magazine.

That was the model 77

Have my Dad's 77 in the back of the safe. Magazine is broke, anybody know where I can get a replacement?

https://cfnparts.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=182&product_id=15807

https://www.gunpartscorp.com/products/1436370B

Own 2, bought 1st, local gun shop in early 80's, Black Diamond, excellent shooter, shot anything I feed it. 2nd rifle Black also, traded for it several years back, stored with other back of safe. Since reading this post, thinking don't need 2. Reason building a RimX 22 LR, got action ordered.

When I first started working at Remington in 1975 one of my jobs was running the molding machine that produced the stocks. If I remember correctly we produced between 500-600 a week.
The machine ran 24 hrs a day, 5 days a week.

Still have mine in mohawk brown. Inherited when my gramps died. Not my favorite .22

Just picked up a 66 at a gun show, 1975 model, detachable mag fed in like new condition, 475.00. I'm happy.

3togo
How many weeks did they run like that? That's a boat load of guns.

I have broken three of those stocks. On my fourth one now. When Remington sent it they also said they have no more. You might get called back to work