Nylon 66 Question

[Dogshooter]

I just took a Remington Nylon 66 in trade and have 'bout pulled my hair out looking for a serial number. The guy I got it from said that the stamping on the barrel by the receiver indicates it was made in 1961. Anybody know where to find the serial?

[Luckyducker]

Not sure about a Nylon 66 but I know that some of the older rimfire rifles were made without serial nos.  I have a Stevens single shot bolt rifle (22S,L,LR) that has no number, that was manufactured in 1963.  A federal law has since been passed that requires all firearms manufactured after it's passage to be serial numbered.  With a manufacture date of 1961 it probably does not bear a no.

[torpedoman]

pre 1968 serial was an option

[GrassLakeRon]

Some Nylon 66 were also pre-patent numbers as well.

Ron

[Dogshooter]

Thanks fallas. Just needed to put it in the books and didn't want to put a NSN on my books if there was a SN.

[Rangr44]

The Remington Nylon rifles were not stamped with serial numbers, from their 1959 intro until GCA-68 required SN's - so post-68 Nylons have the SN stamped into the sheet metal receiver cover.

AFAIK, ALL Remingtons barrels were stamped with a Remington Date Code, so you might want to pull the bbl ( a 3min job) and check for a match with the date codes in the date code sticky at the top of this section of GBO:

http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,63949.0.html

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