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Welcome back to another edition of The Rimfire Report! This ongoing series is all about the rimfire world and its various firearms, ammunition, and trends. This week I want to talk to you guys about one of the most legendary .22LR rifles ever to hit the market. Many of you will be familiar with this one because for many of you it was probably your first experience with a firearm or maybe even more specifically a semi-automatic .22LR firearm. The Remington Nylon 66 was one of the most prolific rimfire firearms produced by the Remington Arms Company and featured a futuristic design (for the time) and throughout its life saw many variants produced. With how popular the Nylon 66 was with the firearms division of Remington Arms under new ownership, I have to wonder if anyone will give the legendary rifle new life or if customers are still happy with the Model 597.

Hello and welcome back to another edition of  The Rimfire Report! This ongoing series is all about rimfire firearms, ammunition, and other related subjects. This week I’d like to start diving into some rather obscure or lesser-known ammunition types found within the annals of rimfire history. This week we’re beginning this ammunition history trip with a rather obscure but notable cartridge – the 17.5mm Danish Snider or more accurately 17.5mm x 29R (that is .69 caliber). This cartridge was used extensively with both the Danish Navy and Army leading to two different rifles being produced for it. The rifles began to see use sometime in the 1860s but there is much debate about which exact date/year the cartridge and rifle actually were pressed into service by the Danish military.

Big, heavy guns in Dillingen, Germany, in Photo Of The Day here at TFB.

If you can check out the video I made about Prince’s rifle below:

While it might seem like a foregone conclusion which would have the higher rate of fire, a muzzle loader or a breechloader, the results and implications are still interesting. In his most recent video Rob over at British Muzzleloaders pits a muzzle-loading Pattern 1853 against a breech-loading Snider-Enfield conversion.

A great part of living in the Internet age is that we have far more information at our fingertips than we ever have before. Until recently we had to rely exclusively on books and magazine articles, researched with varying degrees of thoroughness. Some of the information in these has stood the test of time, but some are incorrect. A lot of claims from books and magazine articles have entered the common knowledge, but many of these just aren’t so.

We hear a lot of talk about how some firearms are “controllable”, while others are not. The word “controllable” or “manageable” is often used in gun reviews to describe the recoil characteristics of a gun, even though without additional context or clarification it tells us very little. I want to talk very briefly about what the word “controllable” means in the context of firearms, and how it actually relates to a firearm’s recoil characteristics.

Those of you that follow the official TFB YouTube channel, TFBTV (thank you for watching) know that I am very interested in old firearms that are by today’s standards obsolete.

Too often I am confronted with the question “why do you have so many old guns?”. Well, the answer is pretty simple, and I lay it out quickly in a three minute video. Modern firearms have their place, but shooting antiques is definitely more my style.