Originally Posted by Stanton Hillis
AFA dependability goes, maybe someone is old enough to remember this, I do, ........ in 1959 Tom Frye set a record by shooting 100,004 two and half inch wooden blocks, thrown into the air, with Nylon 66s, out of a total of 100,010 thrown. Only six misses. I can't remember the dependability factor of the rifles used but AIR it was very high. There was a picture published by Remington that showed Tom sitting on the pile of blocks with a 66.

That Remington ad was awesome.
I was just a little kid then, but I remember Tom Frye sitting on the pile of blocks in the stack of older American Rifleman mags given to me by a neighbor.


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