Less than four months, DuPont’s engineers came back to Remington with Receiver/stock as one unit made entirely of injection-molded plastic. Synthetic rifle stock, which was a radical concept of a combination Self-lubricating and dimensionally stable.Ĭontrol of Remington (since 1933) provided a resource for the new Is easy to repair it must be light in weight it must hold permanentĬolors it must have no corrosive effect on other parts and it must be That flame is removed it must be impervious to solvents, oils, mildĪcids, alkalis, fungus, rodents, and insects it must have a finish that Temperatures, it must, if exposed to a flame, not continue to burn when High resistance to heat distortion it must be resistant to cold The specs given to the DuPont chemical developmentĭepartment in the early 1950s were: The material must be capable ofįorming any shape desired it must have a high tensile-impact andįlexural strength it must have high abrasion resistance it must have To come up with a plastic that could replace both the wooden stock and Remington asked the chemical engineers at DuPont Zytel waiting to be turned into Nylon 66s. Production at Remington’s Ilion, N.Y., plant. The 1959 image (top) shows Nylon 66 stock 22 Alaskanįishermen find able to withstand corrosive sea spray,” as demonstratedīy a Bob Kuhn painting. Remington touted the synthetic Nylon 66 rifle as “The only. As condition drops, of course, so does the Today, you can expect to pay around $300 for a lightly used,Ĭosmetically solid Nylon 66. Was also home to the rear leaf sights, although it was grooved for The exterior of the polymer receiver wore a steel shell that It had to be removed from the side of the buttstock to be The Nylon 66 featured a tubular magazine that held fourteen. Remington widely publicized to showcase reliability and fast-growing More than likely, though, the torture testing Had a 38.5" overall length, but managed to remain light-coming in at The self-lubricating polymer receiver was oneĪttraction. That demand wasn’t justīecause enthusiasts wanted to be the first on their block to own a That the company couldn’t keep up with orders. Made, with total production of more than 1,000,000 by 1991 when theįirst year sales for the blowback-operated semi-auto were so good That covers the gun’s development and summarizes, “The end result was Injection-molding expertise, and Remington’s renowned reputation forĬrafting fine firearms were a historically timed collision of industries Subsequently swept up in a large family of mixtures often simplyĭuPont’s encyclopedic knowledge of chemistry, along with TheĬoncoction was actually known as Fiber 66 at the time, a name Stock and receiver were constructed from a synthetic mix thatĭuPont-which assumed ownership of Remington in 1933-created in 1935. The design was radical and marketed as “The gun of the future.” The Roughly 4,500 became available for sale in January of that year with a price tag of just under $50. Polymer stocks, grips and frames are common on firearms today, but that wasn’t the case back in 1959, when Remington introduced the Nylon 66. On a different note, I am still working a bunch of overtime, into the 3rd week straight of 12+ hours a day with no time off, and I am tired. If I run across another one, I will probably buy it. My son loves my nylon and loves shooting it since he was a kid over his. I happen to walk into a pawnshop and saw one and plunked the money on the spot surprising my wife when I did so considering that I normally am very measured with any purchases I make. I had a clip fed version when I was a kid and I was a dork and gave away to a kid of a friend of mine when I came back from Desert Storm and later regretted doing that. I clipped this off "American Rifleman" I have a "Nylon 66", paid $99 at a pawn shop for it in the early 2000's.