My very first gun, bought in the late 70's, was a black apache nylon 66. It was nice and light, rarely jammed, but the horrible trigger made it miserable for offhand shooting. Also, the stock was very fussy on exactly how I held it and would change the point of impact quite readily. At that time I had a bushnell rimfire 3-7x scope on it, which was a pain to keep mounted in those shallow stamped receiver grooves. At 25 yards, shooting offhand, I could hit maybe 6 out of 10 12 gauge empties. But the creeping trigger pull made that an unnecessarily slow process as I had to incrementally pull the trigger each time. Overall it was a meh experience for my purposes.
A few years later, I picked up a brno model 2e, which proved to be exactly what I wanted for gophers etc. With a trigger job and a nicer scope it was far better for me than the nylon for accurate shooting. The black nylon eventually got sold off.
My brother at that time had a brown nylon, and it lived in a canvas bag in his trunk for years. He was an open sight guy with eagle eyes and could pick off just about anything. He loved that gun. He could literally group 5 shots within a 1/2 inch at 40 yards with that nylon. So remember, this is just the opinion of a scope preferring guy.
Since that time, I have discovered the Browning SA-22/Norinco JW-20. If you like/love the nylon, I suggest you try the browning designed semi. It does pretty much everything the nylon does (light weight, handy, accurate, butt stock tube feed) but also has an excellent trigger, breaks in half, is much simpler to clean and fix, is all wood/steel, is cheaper to buy (well the Norinco is), is easy to scope (cantilever mounts work great), etc.
The nylon is certainly an interesting gun and great for plinking tin cans, but for hunting, I'd always prefer the JW-20. Some of them apparently have issues, but the late model threaded barrel ones I've looked and shot were excellent after a few tweaks.
Sorry for the thread derail....
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