I can recall a friend of mine when we were kids had a Nylon 66 and him and I were treated as lepers, him with his plastic gun and me with my ancient relic that only shoots .22 shorts. Of course, me with my ancient Winchester 1890 could shoot circles around my braggadocios friend and his scope sighted 10/22. And I can recall the occasional stoppage of said 10/22, while that cheap POS Nylon 66 kept going. Even as a kid, I thought the Nylon 66 was a slick rifle. The sights were stamped steel, but they were fully adjustable and gave a superior sight picture to any of the other iron sighted .22’s that ran in my circles. I really wanted a Nylon 66, but we were poor and there was nothing really “wrong” with my 1890 (when in fact, it was worn the hell out!!!), so I soldiered on with my well worn out 1890 until I could finally afford to buy a .22lr myself. I finally picked up a Marlin model 60 after I found out that the “cheap” Nylong 66’s weren’t cheap at all, and that the all metal/wood Marlin was considerably cheaper than the space age Remington…I would later find out why. The Marlin model 60 was far more accurate than my friends 10/22, but it was a bit on the high maintenance side, while the Nylon 66 was a bit on the no-maintenance side! Eventually I saved up for a “good” .22 and I skipped the semi-auto’s altogether and bought a Marlin 39. Never did own a Nylon 66.