It’s certainly better than the trigger my Ruger 10/22 originally came with, which was atrociously heavy and creepy. The gun has a pretty good trigger pull, I’d guess about 4 to 5 pounds with minimal slack or creep. If they shoot accurately in your gun, the CB Longs would be good for small game hunting or pest control in an area where noise is a concern. Noise-wise, they are very quiet from the Remington’s 19” barrel, about as loud as a Sheridan Blue Streak air rifle with 8 pumps. As expected, the CB Longs did not cycle the action, but they fed fine from the magazine when I worked the action as a straight pull bolt action. The Federals functioned well, although I did have a couple malfunctions, including one failure to fully eject. Most were Federal bulk pack high speed 36 grain hollow points, but I also put 9 or 10 CCI CB Longs through it. He has some acreage with a good backstop, so I was able to put 50 – 60 rounds through it. Today I took it over to a friend’s house. Finally, I ran a few solvent-soaked patches through the bore, then followed up with a few dry patches. The rifle came with a single 10 round plastic mag, which was showing some oxidation, so I wiped it down with an Armor-All wipe.
Having read horror stories by owners who detail stripped Nylon 66s, and couldn’t reassemble them, I limited my action cleaning to removing the steel receiver cover and using a solvent-soaked toothbrush to cleaning the easily accessible dirty part. The more common Nylon 66 feeds from a 14 round tube mag concealed in the butt. 22 LR, feeding from a detachable 5 or 10 round box magazine. It’s a semiautomatic rifle chambered for. The Apache 77 was only made from 1987 through 1989, and sold exclusively through K-Mart. I found a nice writeup of the Apache 77 and the other box mag fed Nylons over on, here. Since I’m a lefty, this is a big bonus point. The Nylon 66 and 77 have a tang safety, which helps make the rifle ambidextrous. The 66’s internal tube mag is better protected. 22 rifles with tube mags have them located under the barrel, where they can be dented. Personally, I find a box mag to be more user friendly and facilitates loading and unloading much more quickly.
The box mag fed semiautos were not nearly as popular as the tube fed 66, which is a shame, in my opinion.
My father had a Nylon 11 bolt action in the early 1970s, but they are very uncommon nowadays. The box mag fed Nylon rifles were made in much fewer numbers than the 66. With the reciprocating parts riding on nylon, they don’t require lubrication, which is a nice feature if they rifle is going to be used in a very cold or dusty environment. During that time they developed a reputation for being extremely reliable and durable. Remington came out with the tube fed Nylon 66 in 1959 and made it for 30 years. It’s not really clear, but the gun is mostly green.)
The price was right and I’ve long thought the Nylon-series rifles were neat, so I bought it. The exterior showed minimal handling marks and the bore looked good. Yesterday I decided to brace the crowd and drove up to Cabela’s, where I saw on the used gun rack a Remington Nylon Apache 77 for $249 + tax.