re: Remington Nylon 66 Restoration Project

Traded it to my brother w/ $300 for a Winchester model 61 in pretty good condition for its age.... made in 1949

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I remember mine being green.
is that accurate?
no idea where it is now unfortunately, but it served well and yes went underwater more than a few times

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They made a Senaca Green model for a short time. It's a rare model and highly sought after these days. They also made a green model that was magazine fed instead of tube fed through the stock. It was a Kmart special in the late 80's but was called an Apache 77.

They made bolt action and lever action versions also...

Here's a post I made a couple years back that lists all the variants of Remington's Nylon models.

that looks like my old Crossman bb gun

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Looks good. I never had one but kinda want one after hearing how some of yall talk about em.

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My "first gun" was a Nylon 66 w/ the chrome barrel/receiver cover and black stock. It's a really nice gun, especially if one shoots it w/ open sights, but usually not so nice when shot w/ a scope. I put a scope on mine some years back when my eyes started to struggle w/ open sights. I've heard of some that shoot well w/ a scope, but most don't; mine didn't shoot well w/ the scope. The receiver has a lot of plastic parts; what appears to be metal on the outside of the receiver is actually just a piece of sheet metal covering the plastic receiver. The barrel attaches to the receiver w/ a plastic part. The scope attaches to the receiver cover. When using open sights, both the front and rear sight are attached to the barrel. This is not the case when using a scope. Consequently, accuracy usually suffers as the plastic attached barrel moves in relation to the scope on the receiver cover. Still a really fun gun to play w/ and VERY reliable.

Holy 2-year-old-thread-bump, Batman