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I know we mostly discuss and post about carry hand guns and tactical/defense long arms, but I love to shoot .22's. Rifles, pistols, revolvers! I picked up a little Remington Nylon 66 a couple of weeks ago and just had an opportunity to try it out. After my annual deer rifle for sight-in check I went over to the rimfire range at PSC. Iron sights w/bag rests at 25 yds, which is a stretch with my eyes. I lined up the fuzzy sight picture and it was shooting high and left. (I think I'll touch up the foresight with some paint.) Walked it over with adjustments and shot the 5 shot group here. Had a nice 10 shot group with one flyer that were all touching, but not as good as the I have pictured here. I think my Puma Knife hat brought me luck. The rifle has a little surface rust and a small spot of shallow on pitting on the left side of the barrel just behind the muzzle. I'm sure it'll mostly clean up with some Kroil and bronze wool. The stock has no cracks but has some marks on it, though nothing really bad. It's the sort of rifle that just makes shooting fun!

It's the same story when I shoot my MP15 at 25 yards with iron sights, the target is fuzzy. I'd like to get back to shooting 22s but finding the ammo is just ridiculous. I had and shot 22 pistols and rifles a lot back in the 80s and always a blast.

I go on a .22 shoot twice a year with about 30 guys, we all have tuned up Kidd parts on our guns it's a lot of fun

puma guy wrote:I know we mostly discuss and post about carry hand guns and tactical/defense long arms, but I love to shoot .22's.

My youngest absolutely loves the 22s. Well, I do as well, but he is eat up with them. I remember shooting that Nylon gun. It wasn't ours though. It must have been a cousins or something. A fun find I am sure.

Was it a tubular magazine?

I always wanted one of those Nylon Remington 66s. I should have bought one when they were new and cheap.
There were many people who did not like the Nylon stock. They sold for about $50 new.

http://www.americanrifleman.org/article ... -nylon-66/

goose wrote:

puma guy wrote:I know we mostly discuss and post about carry hand guns and tactical/defense long arms, but I love to shoot .22's.

My youngest absolutely loves the 22s. Well, I do as well, but he is eat up with them. I remember shooting that Nylon gun. It wasn't ours though. It must have been a cousins or something. A fun find I am sure.

Was it a tubular magazine?

A tube or tubular magazine consists of an spring loaded inner and an outer tube which holds cartridges longitudely , end to end. Most of them are mounted under the barrel as you see in a lever action Winchester or Marlin, though tube magazines are used on semi-automatic, bolt actions , pump actions, etc. The Nylon 66 has an inner tube with the opening in the butt plate to insert the cartridges, There's a tube that has a spring loaded follower that is pushed in to force the cartridges forward to allow loading into the chamber. Tube magazines on a Winchester '94 and others with under barrel mounts push the rounds rearward toward the lifter. Centerfire rifles typically have to use cartridges with flat nosed bullets to prevent the primer from being detonated by the round behind it during recoil. Hornady makes soft tipped spire and spitzer bullets for many lever action cartridges.

WildBill wrote:I always wanted one of those Nylon Remington 66s. I should have bought one when they were new and cheap.
There were many people who did not like the Nylon stock. They sold for about $50 new.

http://www.americanrifleman.org/article ... -nylon-66/

I did, too. I shot one when they came out in 1959. A neighbor of ours bought one and took us out to shoot it. Remington took a real chance producing these guns, but they've endured. Probably far beyond what even the proponents projected. The lever action model of these are selling in the 800-1000 dollar range. K-Mart had them make a model for them that was green - Seneca Green rifles in keeping with the Mohawk and Apache tradition. Two things most every one agrees on- don't oil them and don't disassemble them.
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BTW I just read the article for which you posted a link. Thanks

goose wrote:

puma guy wrote:I know we mostly discuss and post about carry hand guns and tactical/defense long arms, but I love to shoot .22's.

My youngest absolutely loves the 22s. Well, I do as well, but he is eat up with them. I remember shooting that Nylon gun. It wasn't ours though. It must have been a cousins or something. A fun find I am sure.

Was it a tubular magazine?

Tubular mag that loads through the butt stock. The most reliable semi-auto 22 I have ever shot.

VMI77 wrote:

goose wrote:

puma guy wrote:I know we mostly discuss and post about carry hand guns and tactical/defense long arms, but I love to shoot .22's.

My youngest absolutely loves the 22s. Well, I do as well, but he is eat up with them. I remember shooting that Nylon gun. It wasn't ours though. It must have been a cousins or something. A fun find I am sure.

Was it a tubular magazine?

Tubular mag that loads through the butt stock. The most reliable semi-auto 22 I have ever shot.

They are reliable for sure. Over a million made and many still shooting. If you read the article Wild Bill posted the prototype had a failure rate of .005 % with 75,000 rounds.

puma guy wrote:

goose wrote:

puma guy wrote:I know we mostly discuss and post about carry hand guns and tactical/defense long arms, but I love to shoot .22's.

My youngest absolutely loves the 22s. Well, I do as well, but he is eat up with them. I remember shooting that Nylon gun. It wasn't ours though. It must have been a cousins or something. A fun find I am sure.

Was it a tubular magazine?

A tube or tubular magazine consists of an spring loaded inner and an outer tube which holds cartridges longitudely , end to end. Most of them are mounted under the barrel as you see in a lever action Winchester or Marlin, though tube magazines are used on semi-automatic, bolt actions , pump actions, etc. The Nylon 66 has an inner tube with the opening in the butt plate to insert the cartridges, There's a tube that has a spring loaded follower that is pushed in to force the cartridges forward to allow loading into the chamber. Tube magazines on a Winchester '94 and others with under barrel mounts push the rounds rearward toward the lifter. Centerfire rifles typically have to use cartridges with flat nosed bullets to prevent the primer from being detonated by the round behind it during recoil. Hornady makes soft tipped spire and spitzer bullets for many lever action cartridges.

In the stock. That is right. Good stuff, Thank you.

VMI77 wrote:Tubular mag that loads through the butt stock. The most reliable semi-auto 22 I have ever shot.

I should have remembered that. Thank you for the response. (I am currently research/google restricted)

I love .22lr too.... anything from my AR-15 in .22lr to a single shot, bolt action and everything in between! That nylon 66 looks like a good find!

Great photos...I guess I have to post a photo of my daughter after her last outing with her (pink, of course!) Ruger 10/22:

HKsig wrote:... I'd like to get back to shooting 22s but finding the ammo is just ridiculous....

Our local Cabelas has .22 ammo in stock almost all the time, now - quite often without any limits. Our local Gander Mountain store is well stocked in .22 ammo as well.

Mail order, a lot of folks are using http://midsouthshooterssupply.com with good results if you're looking for something other than cheap ammo. For instance: Norma 22LR 40gram target loads are 50/$5.95 in stock right now, as is 2500 rounds of Tactical 22LR 40grain target for $249.50, also in stock.

Can't hardly use 'lack of ammo' as an excuse any more.

Vol Texan wrote:Great photos...I guess I have to post a photo of my daughter after her last outing with her (pink, of course!) Ruger 10/22:

That's a very pretty pink plinker! She's quite a shooter! I bet the rifle is nice, too! I commend you for teaching your beautiful little girl to shoot.

I am a sucker for .22s, too. To date I haven't owned a few different action types in this chamber -- break action, Martini action, rolling block and revolver -- but I hope to get a revolver before too long (if anyone knows where I can find a model 999 Sportsman or a Dan Wesson in good shape for a reasonable price, please let me know). Presently my rifles are all semi-auto except for a little Marlin lever gun. Pistols are three different semi-autos.

I am glad to see better availability of ammo, but it sure would be nice to see plinking ammo near 3 to 5 cents a round instead of 10.