Remember the old Nylon 66

[S.B.]

My 66 shoots great but as the temp changes so does it! it will still shoot small groups but wanders from left to right usually going far of to the right? And sometime high. It drives me nut's! I have tried 3 scopes on it same thing I really like how light it is and it's fun to shoot but I won't trust it on a Grouse hunt I take my 39 Marlin or even my very first gun the Coey with me.
I was told they do that, anyone else hear that and is there a fix? I did put some glass bedding behind the big barrel screw& boss  to toughin it up but it did not help the wandering problem?   

I thought the nylon stock was suppose to reduce this? Like fiber stocks on hunting rifles. Guess you're never too old to learn but, have never heard of the Remington Nylon 66s doing this before now? Always thought the biggest problem with nylon stocks was their cracking not warping due to weather conditions?
Steve

[poncaguy]

I still have one, or, should say, my daughter does, her favorite 22..............

[bcp]

The problem is that the scope fastens to the steel cover, which is just sorta flying in loose formation with the barrel.

I've always wanted to put on a barrel mounted scope base like those made for the Browning/Remington 22 auto.

Bruce

My 66 shoots great but as the temp changes so does it! it will still shoot small groups but wanders from left to right usually going far of to the right? And sometime high. It drives me nut's! I have tried 3 scopes on it same thing I really like how light it is and it's fun to shoot but I won't trust it on a Grouse hunt I take my 39 Marlin or even my very first gun the Coey with me.
I was told they do that, anyone else hear that and is there a fix? I did put some glass bedding behind the big barrel screw& boss  to toughin it up but it did not help the wandering problem?   

I thought the nylon stock was suppose to reduce this? Like fiber stocks on hunting rifles. Guess you're never too old to learn but, have never heard of the Remington Nylon 66s doing this before now? Always thought the biggest problem with nylon stocks was their cracking not warping due to weather conditions?
Steve

[PowPow]

The thing I remember is the flimsy steel cover. The rear sight was mounted on the sheet metal cover that was screwed on the plastic. Had to adjust the sight so far to right it was hanging off the barrel. Finally compensated for it by bending the plastic stock over my knee. Never knew how good a 22 could shoot until it got stolen and I replaced it with a 10/22.
I guess there were good ones and bad ones.

[Beans]

I purchased one in 1959. Sold some calves and spent some of the money on the 66.  My son has it now and is teaching my 11 years grandson how to shoot with it.  He kept the Weaver (3/4 tube)  4 X scope on it. My first scope. We shot it over christmas. Popping empty shotgun shells at 25 yards is still fun.

[EdinCT]

  I saved 3 dollars a week until I got the 54.00 dollars and tax to buy a Nylon 77. My dad said I could get the 5 shot clip model but no tube feeder. He liked the idea that I could pull the clip and clear it.
  I had a picture out of the Remington catalog on my wall by the gun rack in my room( yup a thirteen year old with his own gun rack). When I went to pick it up at the gun shop it was ugly but I saved so long and read so many reviews that I went through with the deal. I had a dollar for a box of shells but Dad got a brick, and said when that brick is empty there had better be 10 dollars in the empty box or there wont be anymore.
  It was all I could ask for and many woodchucks and rabbits met their end by it. At least 50000 rounds and it still shoots great.
  It never would stay zeroed with a scope though and my eyes aren't what they were 40 years ago.
  If I remember correctly you could get one of those blocks that were used to set the record when you bought a Nylon 66 but I may be wrong.

[poncaguy]

I have a 3x9x40 scope on mine, never had any trouble with it, my daughter is deadly with it,  won't give it back to me............but that's okay, she's having my grandson end of March and it will be his someday!!!

[Dances with Geoducks]

I loved my Nylon 66 when I was a teenager, a nice change from the Mossberg target 22 I started with.

I saw a few at gun shows, and they were more than what I bought my 45-70 for. So I settled for a 522 Remy.

[bilmac]

Geoducks  My Pastor is from Bellview and says you must be associated with a famous Seattle seafood restaraunt. My question. Is there actually a boat named Keep Clam?

[Dances with Geoducks]

Bellevue , is east of Seatlle. Ivar Haglund (the guy in the picture) was a famous local celeb here in the 50s-70s.

He was a joker, and made a lot of strange commercials.

No those life rings are decorations in his restaurant for 50 years now.

The truth is that in the 70s he had a ad campaign that they found undersea billboards from the 50s in the bay, and they raised them up.  This was found to be a hoax. When he was found out, he coined the phrase "Keep Clam"
and it exploded from there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUANmtaY1lQ

He shot no clams with a nylon 66