You need to take a Nylon 66 apart to really appreciate the thing.
They sold over a million of them, and I'd venture to say that the vast majority of them are still serviceable.
There were some innovations going on at that time, to try to serve the market.
People were not as affluent as now, money was tight. American gun makers have always been hanging by a thread from bankruptcy.
The Remington Nylon guns were a quite a risk to put into production. They sold well.
Winchester tried the alloy frame shotguns about the same time without really understanding that steel was necessary in certain places, something the Italians figured out a couple decades later. They even covered a spiral wound barrel with fiberglass to introduce something new that was strong and light weight.
The point is that design innovations at great risk to the companies involved were happening in the 1960 era.
I'm all for traditional gun making, but this era is part of our history and they did come out with some remarkable designs.
