Good luck with the repairs, Lloyd. Please let us know what you do for it, and how it works.
I bought my wife a new Apache Black model in 1972, as a gift. She has had it ever since, and it looks like new. Occasionally I will hear something in the night that will awaken me and I'll notice she isn't beside me in bed. If I look out the window I can usually see her walking around the yard with a handheld rechargeable spotlight and her Nylon 66 .......... on armadillo patrol. She is deadly with that thing. I once drove up in the front of the house and heard shooting in the back. I ran around the side of the house to see what was happening and saw a hapless black racer in it's death throes about 20 yards from the back door. She was standing there looking through the scope at it. I went over and she had hit it 3 out of 4 shots. That's pretty good shooting on a moving target. Blacksnakes aren't much bigger around than my finger.
My first .22 was a Nylon 11, the clip fed bolt action model. Tough guns. Even tougher to completely disassemble and get back together. Hers has never been apart, in 45 years, and never failed to eject and feed.
SRH
