[ Remington Nylon 76 "Trail Rider" ]
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Well howdy, partner, welcome back to Forgotten Weapons.
It's not really all that cowboy, but it was supposed to be that cowboy.
This is a Remington Nylon 76, and this was introduced by Remington in 1962
to basically build off of the massive success
that they were having with their Nylon 66 semi-auto rifle.
I just did a video on that one recently, if you haven't seen it take a look.
That'll go through all of the really interesting production changes and novelties about this,
basically the world's first totally monolithic polymer rifle.
Well in '62 Remington realised, "Hey we've got a great thing going with this rifle,
it's economic, it's become popular.
You know what the kids like these days? The kids like Westerns.
Kids want to go out and play cowboys and Indians,
and you can't do that with a semi-auto, you've got to have a lever action.
So how do we as Remington make a lever action? Well let's just take our Nylon 66,
rebuild the internals a little bit, give it a lever instead of a semi-auto action.
Presto, the kids will love it, they can go totally
And you know what? It's actually a really pretty good rifle.
It's super light, it's got a 14 round magazine loaded through the buttstock.
It's got a fast short lever action. It's a great little plinking rifle.
The problem is, well, if you want to play
I'm sorry, even though it looks vaguely sort of like wood. This is in the Mohawk Brown.
It's just not the same, you need a Winchester, you need a wooden proper Western lever action.
And the kids kind of realised that fairly quickly.
So Remington would end up selling this for only a few years.
They went out of production in 1965, with a grand total of just under 27,000 of them made.
... Like, that's a lot of guns, that would be by a lot of people's standards pretty successful.
But not compared to the ... Nylon 66, and so Remington abandoned this.
Like, "Alright, fine, it's not actually very Western, we tried."
... By the way, they called this the "Trail Rider",
they were definitely playing up the cowboys Western theme.
But it just didn't work for them.
And for some reason on this, the safety keeps engaging on me
like intermittently while I'm shooting, and I'm not sure why.
That buttstock magazine goes for quite a while.
So to load this thing, this is the follower tube
with a spring-loaded follower right there.
Just tilt it down. You can load 14 rounds one after the other
down into the butt hole, I guess that's the technical term I suppose. Into the magazine.
... I don't know how many that was, but that's enough for the moment.
Put this back in. There's a little pin there that locates it.
There we go, lock it in place and you're ready to go again.
It's funny, it actually has a slightly snappier recoil than you would expect
because the whole gun weighs about 4 pounds. It's really light for a .22.
Sorry, I'm not going to try to do the Chuck Connors
spinning the thing around the lever at my hip trick with this.
I'd like to give a big thanks to my friend Dutch Hillenburg for loaning me this for some filming.
26,000 and change of these manufactured,
the last of them made ... more than 50 years ago now, almost 60 years ago now.
They are actually kind of scarce today,
and definitely have a bit of nostalgic Old West 1960s appeal.
So a cool rare-ish element from the back archives of Remington.
This is in fact the only lever action that Remington has ever made.
Hopefully you guys enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching, partners.
- Is there any other shooting you want to do? - I don't know. I've still got some ammo.
It is light! See if I can do that again.
Argh! Well not without a cartridge I can't. Oh well.