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Posted: 3/23/2010 5:10:48 PM EDT
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I have a chance to pick up a 95% 1959 standard production Mohawk Brown Nylon 66 and was wondering what it might be worth? A friend of mine wants to get rid of it and I would like to offer him a fair price. I called a couple dealers for him and they said (without looking at it) they might pay about $75 for it. I read an article on Nylonrifles.com and the author of the article said he would never pay over $100 for an average 66.
I Iooked on GB, Auction Arms, Guns International, and Firearms Locator and only GB had comparable models with an average of about $200 with most bids starting at $75. What do the masses say? Would $150 be an insult? What is a fair offer to a friend? I don't really need it but it is clean and shoulders surprisingly good. I like it because it is a neat old gun and has small amount of history. |
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Prices are all over on these. I see them at most gun shows and often in local shops. There are different thoughts on their future "collect-ability". They made them for a lot of years and made millions of them. Some think their current value is due more to some of us old guys remembering them as our first .22 semi. They feel that in the future the values won't rise as this generation moves on and a younger crowd will not see them the same way.
I had one when I was young. I liked it at the time but traded it in back in 1976 on a Ruger 10/22. The Ruger was a much better rifle. The Nylon 66 was light and shot OK, but honestly, it had its limits. They are made of nylon and they will age. In 50 years I wonder what will be left of them. No one knows! In the mean time they are sort of collectable. Nothing like a 1800's Winchester or anything, but an affordable rifle with a past. But, there are many of them out there so values will probably never go too high. $100-$150 would be top of what I would give for one. I have passed on several at $150, but then I owned one for years and don't long to have it back. My Ruger on the other hand.....that's a different story. |
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$150 would be a good price for both of you. The Nylon 66 is a truly great rifle, and I would snap one up in a heartbeat if I found one in good shape for $150. The Nylon 66 was not really so great a rifle. They were reasonably reliable. But, they had their limitations. The idea behind them was to find a low cost way to build a rifle. Remington did this by building the stock and receiver out of nylon cutting production costs. They made a big deal out of not having to lube them and such. They had a nice barrel, but then the outer metal parts were just stamped steel, low cost stuff. They sold a ton of those rifles as they didn't cost very much to make. They were produced for many years but they faded as other rifles were very competitive. They had some weaknesses. One was the nylon stock and receiver. It would flex. The scope mount was on the sheet metal receiver what was attached to the plastic. If you pushed on the barrel it would flex and your scope would not be "zeroed" any more. If you were using the iron sights this was not as much as an issue, but still, it caused problems. Here is an exert from a review: The intrinsic accuracy of my Nylon 66 was good. From a bench rest it would shoot groups comparable to the best my friends' Marlin Model 60 and Winchester Model 77 .22 autoloaders could do. However, due to its ultra-light weight and (compared to wood) flexible stock, its practical accuracy in the field was probably not as good. However, it was more reliable than other autoloaders and it would feed reliably in any strange orientation, including upside down. Using the sling as a shooting aid, for example, would move the point of bullet impact a couple of inches to the side at 25 yards due to lateral stock flex. The springy Zytel stock made the Nylon 66 shoot away from any hard surface against which it might be rested against in the field (rocks and stumps, for example). This is true to some extent of all rifles, of course, but the effect was exaggerated by the nylon stock. And the rifle was so light that it was very hard to hold steady from unsupported positions. They were neat little rifles and were in some ways ahead of their time. They were made for 31 years in one form or another and they were the single most popular Remington .22 ever produced. I had fun with mine while I had it. But that was a long time ago. If you get one research a bit before taking it apart. There are some things you should be aware of before digging into its internals. |
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$150 would be a good price for both of you. The Nylon 66 is a truly great rifle, and I would snap one up in a heartbeat if I found one in good shape for $150. The Nylon 66 was not really so great a rifle. They were reasonably reliable. But, they had their limitations. The idea behind them was to find a low cost way to build a rifle. Remington did this by building the stock and receiver out of nylon cutting production costs. They made a big deal out of not having to lube them and such. They had a nice barrel, but then the outer metal parts were just stamped steel, low cost stuff. They sold a ton of those rifles as they didn't cost very much to make. They were produced for many years but they faded as other rifles were very competitive. ............. ...............They were neat little rifles and were in some ways ahead of their time. They were made for 31 years in one form or another and they were the single most popular Remington .22 ever produced. I had fun with mine while I had it. But that was a long time ago. If you get one research a bit before taking it apart. There are some things you should be aware of before digging into its internals. I guess "great" is a subjective term. To me they were a great rifle who's overall value far exceeded their price. One reason I liked them so much was that they were AK47 or Glock reliable. Mine ALWAYS went BANG! I don't recall any of the ones I had ever jamming. And I seriously mistreated one in particular. They weren't CZ452 accurate, but they were as good as most 10/22s I've shot, which is good enough for what I used them for. At around 4.5lbs loaded, you could carry it all day without issue, and the plastic stock may have been flexible, but it was tough as nails too. And one thing I learned on my first one.......NEVER, EVER disassemble a Nylon 66!!!!  Unless you are a trained gunsmith, you will NEVER get it back together!! Like you said, they were made for 31 years and were the single most popular .22 Remington ever made.....you have to understand that there was a reason for that popularity that can't be explained by just the low price.
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150-200$ is reasonable.
I still have my dad's old nylon 66, it was my first real rifle. I can't even guess how many thousands of rounds I pumped through that thing as a kid. It was never cleaned-until a few weeks ago when I randomly decided to try my hand at a field strip. I just followed the youtube tutorial from nylon rifles, it wasn't that bad. I must say, the dirt and grime in that sumbitch was epic.
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