The Nylon 66 was the first rimfire rifle I ever purchased as an adult. Mine is the standard model in Mohawk brown. Purchased it in the late 1980’s at a Big 5 Sporting Goods in El Cajon, CA. Still in very nice condition and while slower to reload than many of my other rimfires it’s still a great little rifle.

My dearly departed Dad got me one when I was a teen. It was great to shoot and accurate too. I couldn't tell you the thousands of rounds that were put through it.

I still have it and will pass it down to my Son when I depart this earth. It's very sentimental to me.

I laughed out loud about the comments regarding disassembly. I learned that the hard way as well.

Interesting guns, engineering is remarkable.
Sadly I have one that just recently slipped to the floor and the stock broke clean in half at the recoil lug/barrel retention block.

Wonder if Remington will honor the lifetime guarantee?

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I can't imagine how that could happen on that rifle.

Had one as a kid in Apache Black with white diamonds. Absolutely loved that gun...in fact that is the ONLY time that I would ever say that about any gun that I've ever owned. Has to do with it being the first gun and boy I do miss that one. Left it with the folks when I went to college and unfortunately it was mistakenly sold. I've come close to buying another at least a couple of times, but it's just not the same. And since all of the changes in laws here over the past several years, as long as I live in evil WA it'll never happen anyways since I have zero inclination to be listed on their semi-auto rifle registry that this vile state started up in 2016.

Still have mine from mid ‘60s, my first gun, step up from the family .22 Marlin single shot bolt action (I still have that one as well). Great little firearm, need to get a inexpensive red dot to use on it....

BTW, Ian's pop culture reference at the beginning of his video:

Thanks it was nice learning about those rifles. While I've seen them over the years I've only handled them a few times and never shot one. I just assumed they were traditionally manufactured only the nylon stock.

Never had a 66 or any of the other Remington models that were similar, but to have a 513T of similar vintage,

Remington, at one point, made excellent barrels, and even tho the rifles were not well thought off, or considered lowly, they were accurate,

sometimes very accurate

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Originally posted by ridewv:
Thanks it was nice learning about those rifles. While I've seen them over the years I've only handled them a few times and never shot one. I just assumed they were traditionally manufactured only the nylon stock.

I seem to recall that at the time it was introduced it had more parts made out of nylon than just the stock.It was promoted as almost maintenance free. Just clean the barrel and be done.
No need to lube the action or expose the nylon parts inside to damaging chemicals, the nylon parts are self lubricating.
Great for SHTF or a trunk gun.

I have a 1972 10C, magazine fed instead of the tube, picked it up in 2015.

Unfortunately the fore grip has a crack, kinda glued it, name of it slips my mind but read about it on one of the Nylon forums years ago. So,far so good.

I had never known much about the Nylon 66 until i was watching a Jerry Miculek video about the first gun he had. Ineresting history on how it came about. After that i kept my eye out for one... just happened to get an apache black (chrome Cover) that was a 1966 Nylon 66. I kinda thought that was neat.

Dang, seeing this thread title reminded me I still have to look into mine. Since I've owned it (23-24 years, though very little actual use) it's always been fussy getting the magazine tube out. Two weeks ago I went away and was going to bring it with me. I struggled to get the tube out. Once it finally cam out, it couldn't get it to lock back it. It's as if the inner tube is too deep in the stock. I didn't have time to look into it, so I set it aside and forgot all about it till now. It has me wondering if the mag tube is indeed too far in, or is somehow the stock has expanded and "grown" slightly over time.

They were cool guns for sure. I've had several over the years. Just had a chance to buy a nice Mohawk Brown a few days ago. But didn't really have a use for it. Still on my mind though!!!

So, I didn't buy the Mohawk Brown one, but instead found a Apache 66 (black stock and chrome receiver cover and barrel) The forearm has a small crack in it but the rifle shoots very well. I have a stock on the way to me and will change it out and post some photos of the complete rifle. The date code indicates December 1968 and this is the 696th one after they began to put serial numbers on the receiver cover.

I missed buying a rusty junker 66 missing the front sight but with a good stock a few weeks ago. And I just happen to know someone that has a Nylon 66 that the stock was broken in half that I could get.

I’ll just keep watching.

Here is the rifle in the broken stock (forearm) sporting some black electrical tape. LOL!

Mine is the same, also with a chunk missing from the forend. 1999-2000ish I stuck some rail on it and mounted a dot sight in far-scout scope style. At the time I liked it. I wish it wasn't there now.

I probably won't shoot this one much. Just a plinking gun. I have several CZ457s for serious shooting. The Apache 66 has always been a handsome looking rifle in my eyes. I like them all but this version is my favorite.

I bought mine in large part just to take apart and look around inside. Something I never did till tonight. Judging by the crud inside, it's been a long, looong time since anyone's been inside this gun.

Once in there it ruled out my idea that maybe the magazine tube had somehow slid forward. It hadn't, the retaining clip was still in place. I read elsewhere online, people claiming some vintage of the rifle had oversized stocks, making them a hair too long and causing magazine issues. I don't know, maybe, maybe not. I'm sticking with my "growing" (expanding, swelling) theory. My rifle was made in 1973. And the magazine, though fussy at times, locked in at least until 2015 or so. It's only recently that it wouldn't fit and lock in. And looking at it, it wasn't like it was just a few millimeters off. What I ended up doing was grinding away the thumb turn portion of the mag tube so it would seat deeper and lock in. Going into it, I figured it would just need a hair, and I could follow the original contour so you wouldn't even know. That idea went out the window and I ended up drastically altering it. I chose working over original and not working.