I never owned one. I had a Ruger 10/22 (and still own that particular rifle) but when I was young, the Nylon 66 was always around. A great success for Remington, a very reliable plinker.

I still have the one I bought back in the 70s.

They seem to have an almost cult following these days. They are going for high prices if you can find one for sale.

My first semi auto rifle of any type. I wish I still had it!
Nylon 66 tactical use story:
The older brother of my HS buddy came home from work and entered the house through a back door that led into the kitchen. He heard a noise at the front of the house and retrieved a fully loaded Nylon 66 tube feed model and investigated. He confronted two men in a narrow front entryway. The burglar in front charged him and he opened fire, hitting the burglar 8 times center mass, killing him. As the first burglar began to collapse (lead weight) the second burglar used him as a shield until he couldn't hold him up any longer. The second burglar then fled out the front door and onto the lawn with the homeowner in pursuit. Outside, the homeowner emptied the 66 into burglar number twos back. He went down but survived. Grand Jury ruled the indoor shoot was kosher but the outdoor was Felonious Assault. The Homeowner was found not guilty but the cost to defend him was 25K in the early 1970s.

When I was around 15 - 16 years old got Dad to sign for a Nylon 66 Apache Black, Black stock, chrome receiver & barrel seems like it was around $55- 60 give or take a little. I shot it a bunch and it never gave me problems. I should have kept it but money was tight than. When I was 18 local gun shop got a Winchester 190 Semi 22 in that I had to have LOL, so sold the 66 to help buy the 190. I do still have the Winchester 190. Back than I think all my friends had the 10/22.

I went camping for a week with a highschool friend on his family's hunting camp one summer when I was about fifteen or so. It was in the Adirondacks on many, many acres. We camped on a lake right where the river fed into it. His hunting lodge had a number of plinkers in a rack for lodge member use. He invited me to pick one out to carry for the week. I forget what all was there aside from one of them being in .218 BEE, which intrigued me. I picked one off the rack that looked like my father's XP100, and my friend remarked "oh, that's a good one, you'll like that" and handed me a box of Remington Thunderbolt from the shelf. It was a Nylon 66, and I carried it around for a whole week. We didn't do a lot of shooting, but we plinked some, and that Remington was an absolute joy to shoot. When the week was over, I really wished I could take it home.

Maybe some day.

Back in the late 1960"s I was on my High School rifle team.
The HS was in Park Ridge IL. right on the border of Chicago. There was a indoor rifle range in the rotunda basement left over from WW2. The HS had a few Mossberg target rifles for use but you could bring your own .22. Rules were if its a semi auto you had to load one round at a time, same as a bolt rifle with a magazine.
The Sporting Goods shop in town had a few Nylon 66 in the rack.I asked for one for Christmas and received a Mohawk brown model.
The HS rule for bringing a rifle to school was it had to be unloaded and in a case. It had to be stored in your locker until the end of the school day, then it could be removed and brought to the rifle range, then brought home.
NEVER any problems nor was it in any way a big deal to have a gun at school.
I still have the Remington but gave it to my son a few years ago.
58 years and it still requires very little maintenance, always goes bang.
As I get older the light weight of the Nylon 66 gets my attention now. I may want it back.

The nylon 66 was my first 22lr gun. I got one very young for my birthday or christmas.
Shot the crap out of that gun. My friends mother used to go to Abilene Tx once a week and we had a standing order for a brick of 22lr each week.

I think I still have an add for them showing a very large pile of 22lr hulls. They tested one till it malfunctioned. They were slow to load but you get pretty good with enough practice.

Still have mine and cannot believe the prices they are asking for them now.

One of my oldest friends dad had an obsession with the nylons, he had a ton of them. My wife’s dad who has past also really liked em. Sweet little shooters.

That was the first gun I learned to shoot on! I was just talking to a friend about it today and how I'm so pissed at my idiot brother for selling it.

It was such a fun rifle!

Tony.

Be sure to watch the youtube. Typically great job from Ian.

Looking forward to watching the FW video. Ian finds the neatest items to feature.

I inherited a Nylon 66 forty years ago. It holds immense sentimental value, and it runs great to this day. If you get an opportunity to check one out, I recommend it.

Someone I knew and respected when it came to firearms told me NEVER take one apart. So I found and bought one, just to take apart! Never did get around to it. (even though they're not really bad at all, I guess he meant way down into all the fire control)
So light and handy, feel great in the hand. Haven't shot it in years and never did shoot it much, but it's great for what it is. For years it was a "trunk gun", not as a weapon per say, but as a camp gun when I went away. (but realization of certain legal issues pertaining to my employment caused it to lose that job)

Thanks for the memories. I never had the (very popular at the time BTW) Remington Nylon 66. But I had, and still have, my Remington 552 Speedmaster.

My little brother had a black one w/ blued receiver & barrel as a 10 yr old kid that our dad bought for him. Probably the most accurate 22 I've ever shot. Fast forward, years later my brother decided to take it apart for cleaning. (way apart) & couldn't put it back together. Took it to a gunsmith to reassemble but never went back to get it. What a waste of a great rifle.

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Originally posted by x0225095:
Thanks for the memories. I never had the (very popular at the time BTW) Remington Nylon 66. But I had, and still have, my Remington 552 Speedmaster.

Me too, always wanted a Nylon 66 but a 552 BDL Speedmaster came home with me thirty something years ago.

I had one for a dozen years back it 70s and 80s that ended up being stolen by a family member (he denied it till his death bed but the entire family knew he stole my 66…along with several other firearms from other family members…but we were unable to prove it …he was a POS). One little known fact about the Nylon series of rifles was that the FFL serial number “receiver” was the stamped steel action cover…if you look at the rifle in a Numrich Arms catalog, the only part that has to go through an FFL was that cover…it’s the only serial numbered part on the rifle

We can still find on line, the image of Tom Frye sitting atop over 100,000 wood blocks he shot in mid air with the Nylon 66. That was 1959, the year I was born.

I saw a lot of them on boardings in the Gulf of Mexico and East Coast ships.

Cheap and worked.

Guys used them for shooting sharks as they were working long lines and trawl nets(with the sharks still alive)

Probably every third boat I was on between 88 to 95…
Then I saw more Ruger 10/22s

I’ve shot more than one, also learned never take one apart

I had the Apache Nylon 77. Wish I still had it. Jammed a lot tho. Maybe due to dirty ammo.