Thanks for the comment. I was honored to know him and be his assistant for what may have been his last exhibition performance June 10, 1978 in Findlay, OH. He shot one of his famous Chief metal signs for me and autographed it. A treasured possession for sure!
@@geraldquinn1268 That is awesome! Findlay was his hometown. I’ve got his high school diploma from there somewhere. Sure wish I could’ve met him. He passed two months before I came along. Tom was married to my mother’s older sister Jan. Have you read Tim Price’s book Shooting for the Record? It sure made my day seeing this video. I knew there had to have been footage of him somewhere. I was fortunate to have ended up with two Indian silhouettes. One he shot for my parents as a wedding gift and another he did for my grandparents a few years earlier. Do you know what year this was recorded?
@@Fatherkronos Thanks for that information. I am not sure when that video was recorded and included in one or two Remington’s films, “A Great Tradition” and/or “Exhibition Shooting”. If I find out the year, I will get back to you.
During his exhibition in Findlay, Ohio in 1978, two of us threw 10 clay targets in the air (5 each simultaneously) and Tom broke all 10 before any hit the ground with his 870 (10-shot magazine extension). Remarkable at his age!
Iam delighted this great man has been posted on RUclips, the wooden blocks story is a movie on its own! I read about this legend Tom Frye years ago and nobody believed me when I spoke of his achievements, well here is a tiny sample!
@@fanatamon No , it a misunderstanding. When I say Democrats I mean the political party and it's political approaching. Many people love firearms regardless of who they vote for .
The Nylon 66! My first firearm and I still use it regularly to this day! It's my small game gun and it is super reliable and maintenance free. Consistent with CCI standard ammo!
I can remember stuff like this when I was a kid. Heck, I remember shooting Winchester 1890’s at the county fair for stuffed animals. It’s a shame that guns are now held in such low regard by many because of the actions of the few!
@@ambivalentonion2620 sure was! I was born in the late 60s, and did a lot of shooting in my teens through the 80s, we would walk through the neighbourhood with our rifles to go rabbit shooting. We had a local cop stop us one day to tell us to have our breeches open when carrying in public, no license checks, just smiled and said “thanks lads” as he drove off.
Those were the good day's. I would loved to have been around to see these exhibition shoots. Although with the population today vs back then makes it quite dangerous to be shooting 22lr up in the air.
Yes. Fewer places outside military bases’ firing ranges to safely shoot a rifle in the air even in the West. I was honored to assist Tom Frye in one of his last exhibitions - maybe his last, because he died a couple of years later. He didn’t shoot any rifles in the air at that one in Findlay, OH, his hometown. All shots with rifles were safely backstopped.
Great guns! I’ve got an old Remington Model 11-48. I shoot skeet every once in a while, and that old Remington from 1948 keeps up with every modern benelli and anything else that shows up!
My dad was worthless drunk but before that happened shooting guns was something I really enjoyed he had nylon 66 if one of neatest guns you could shoot an you could load it up. His drinking buddy got al the guns guess dad drank them but I can't find one anywhere hearing about one in this clip is first time in 50 years I've heard it brought up
I'm pretty sure I saw Tom Frye at our county fair in the 1960s. There were several "trick shot" guys who represented ammunition and firearms manufacturers making the circuit back then. As a 10 year old with a 14 year old brother, we used to shoot archery and .22 rifles almost everyday while growing up on a farm. We got to be pretty good shots and could replicate some of the trick shot experts with splitting playing cards and lighting matches, driving nails, etc. It's s shame kids can't grow up like that any more. Oh, we were shooting our BB guns probably from about age 6, so we were pretty good shots even before dad bought the bolt-action, Remington Nylon 12. That rifle went to my older brother (like everything else of course!) and he taught his son to shoot with it and now, his son is teaching his kids. For a cheap little rifle from the early 1960s (they were made from 1962-64) It's still in good shape and shoots well.
I remember when I was about Jr. High School age, there were ads in the outdoor magazines for the Nylon 66. As I recall, they had an address that you could send off to and get one of the hundred thousand wood blocks that had been shot by their exhibition shooter to set a record. I guess that was Tom Frye. Sadly, I never got around to sending for a block. In one of the hardware stores in our town, there was a sheet of aluminum with and Indian Cheif's likeness, head dress and all, printed by .22 caliber holes. I always heard that it had been done by a visiting exhibition shooter. For years, I was under the impression that it had been done without any marks on the metal to go by and the shooter was firing offhand. Finally I got talking to an old fellow who had witnessed the picture's creation. He explained to me that the shooter not only didn't have a mark on the aluminum to go by and fired offhand, he also shot the entire sequence firing backwards over his shoulder while looking at the sights through a mirror! I hope he wasn't pulling my leg, if he did, he did a great job of it! In either case, I presume the shooter was Tom Frye! My father later bought a Nylon 66, it was a great gun!
I am 75 years old and still have my very first rifle.....a Remington Nylon 66. It was a cheap (about $50 around 1959). The durability of that rifle was legendary and very simple engineering design which used the most elaborate plastic mold up to that time. While Tom made it into a legendary rifle....in reality it was nothing special as far as accuracy. I have never had it misfire which says a lot about the desiogn.
my dad had a friend in the 50s-90s when dad passed away. i then became good friends with this man until he passed in around. 1996, dad said he could hit most anything with a 22 thrown into the air and kill a deer with a head shot as the deer ran! the man's son told me he could hit a nickel flipped in the air every time and a dime most times with a 22
A great story about Tom Frye doing his last exhibition two weeks before he died at age 66. www.distinctlymontana.com/meeting-tom-frye-montana-marksman?
My very first firearm was a Nylon 66. I certainly knew the 100K block story and Tom Frye's part in it. What a POS that rifle was. Mine lasted for about 2000 rounds before it started to come apart. All that plastic crap in the action, the "self-lubricative" kaka that wore away despite being oiled with the best lube money could procure, and the completely unreliable feeding mechanism that ended up making the rifle a single-shot affair. I tossed it in the ashcan and got a 1911.
@@geraldquinn1268 Actually, if was only after I tried thorough cleaning and a dry graphite luricant that I finally resorted to machine oil. By this time the rifle was puking its guts out on a regular basis anyway. As a side note, I've handled Model 60s and other .22s that have had ten thousand or more rounds through them. A well-kept .22 can last a long time. The Nylon 66 was just not a good rifle.
Some shooters, especially trap shooters, prefer their glasses to sit higher because their head is bend slightly forward when the stock is mounted to their cheek. That enables their eyes to look through the center of the glass rather than through the top. One famous maker of shooting glasses, Bud Decot, named his glasses "Hy-Wyd" to reflect how they fit.
I can understand why you say that and that frame does look like an O/U. But he always used an 870 for these exhibitions - usually one with a 10-shot magazine extension that makes it look like two barrels.
I agree totally and although I shoot and love my guns -in USA you gotta stop lettin the crazies get hold of guns ffs. I’d be a crybaby to if my kids got shot up at school or elsewhere cause some shithead who doesn’t represent shooters or anything decides to go postal on some poor kids.
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This is the first and only footage I’ve ever seen of my uncle. Thank you for posting this!
Thanks for the comment. I was honored to know him and be his assistant for what may have been his last exhibition performance June 10, 1978 in Findlay, OH. He shot one of his famous Chief metal signs for me and autographed it. A treasured possession for sure!
@@geraldquinn1268 That is awesome! Findlay was his hometown. I’ve got his high school diploma from there somewhere. Sure wish I could’ve met him. He passed two months before I came along. Tom was married to my mother’s older sister Jan. Have you read Tim Price’s book Shooting for the Record? It sure made my day seeing this video. I knew there had to have been footage of him somewhere. I was fortunate to have ended up with two Indian silhouettes. One he shot for my parents as a wedding gift and another he did for my grandparents a few years earlier. Do you know what year this was recorded?
@@Fatherkronos Thanks for that information. I am not sure when that video was recorded and included in one or two Remington’s films, “A Great Tradition” and/or “Exhibition Shooting”. If I find out the year, I will get back to you.
@@Fatherkronos And, yes, I have that book in my library and have read it.
During his exhibition in Findlay, Ohio in 1978, two of us threw 10 clay targets in the air (5 each simultaneously) and Tom broke all 10 before any hit the ground with his 870 (10-shot magazine extension). Remarkable at his age!
Iam delighted this great man has been posted on RUclips, the wooden blocks story is a movie on its own! I read about this legend Tom Frye years ago and nobody believed me when I spoke of his achievements, well here is a tiny sample!
So cool to see this ole archive footage, great shooter, classic ole weapons!!
We need these types of things to come back into our society.
You've gotta get rid of a lot of trash in our society and trash laws.
Fully guns can be safe and fun to use just need to keep them away from crazies.
The Democrats don't like these stuff .
@@highvelocity6529 I vote democrat I love guns your comment is not accurate and at best a gross generalization.
@@fanatamon No , it a misunderstanding. When I say Democrats I mean the political party and it's political approaching. Many people love firearms regardless of who they vote for .
The Nylon 66! My first firearm and I still use it regularly to this day! It's my small game gun and it is super reliable and maintenance free. Consistent with CCI standard ammo!
I can remember stuff like this when I was a kid.
Heck, I remember shooting Winchester 1890’s at the county fair for stuffed animals. It’s a shame that guns are now held in such low regard by many because of the actions of the few!
do you still get guns in fairs in the usa, they stopped doing it in england a couple of decades ago
Only in small country towns you'll see that. Now it's just bb guns if you see them at all
In Australia we need a shooters license for a BB gun
@@mrpicto68 it used to be like this in australia
@@ambivalentonion2620 sure was! I was born in the late 60s, and did a lot of shooting in my teens through the 80s, we would walk through the neighbourhood with our rifles to go rabbit shooting. We had a local cop stop us one day to tell us to have our breeches open when carrying in public, no license checks, just smiled and said “thanks lads” as he drove off.
Where are you now Tom Frye, we need you again for our youths of America
Although he’s gone, there are some others doing great things like this for young people - like Travis Mears in TX, for example.
Forgotten Weapons brought me here! 👍
Wow! Honestly, the 4 clay's really impressed, both the rifle and the gentleman, Tom Frye. Thanks for posting.
Wow! Literally unbelievable talent! I always wanted a Nylon 66, but made up for it on the end with a few other Remingtons
I grew up shooting my dads nylon 66, i still have it .
Those were the good day's. I would loved to have been around to see these exhibition shoots. Although with the population today vs back then makes it quite dangerous to be shooting 22lr up in the air.
Yes. Fewer places outside military bases’ firing ranges to safely shoot a rifle in the air even in the West. I was honored to assist Tom Frye in one of his last exhibitions - maybe his last, because he died a couple of years later. He didn’t shoot any rifles in the air at that one in Findlay, OH, his hometown. All shots with rifles were safely backstopped.
Great guns! I’ve got an old Remington Model 11-48. I shoot skeet every once in a while, and that old Remington from 1948 keeps up with every modern benelli and anything else that shows up!
I loved being in Scouts. Always remember shooting .22 rifles at Summer camp. Now I gotta go shoot
Nylon 66. Yes, Sir. 🙏
A true Legend !!!
He and Herb Parsons, who shot exhibitions for Winchester, were two of the very best...
I remember the ads nylon 66 w him sittin on a pile of bocks!!! Good ole days!! He was one of a kind!!!
Still have my Nylon 66. Bought it for around $50. Still shoots as new.
This shooting isn't even possible but yet here he does it
My dad was worthless drunk but before that happened shooting guns was something I really enjoyed he had nylon 66 if one of neatest guns you could shoot an you could load it up. His drinking buddy got al the guns guess dad drank them but I can't find one anywhere hearing about one in this clip is first time in 50 years I've heard it brought up
THE WORLD AS I REMEMBERED COMING UP .
I WILL KEEP IT LIKE THAT 😢
I loved my Nylon 66. Tack driver, and ran like a sewing machine.
🤙
Sweet as I love this.
I'm pretty sure I saw Tom Frye at our county fair in the 1960s. There were several "trick shot" guys who represented ammunition and firearms manufacturers making the circuit back then. As a 10 year old with a 14 year old brother, we used to shoot archery and .22 rifles almost everyday while growing up on a farm. We got to be pretty good shots and could replicate some of the trick shot experts with splitting playing cards and lighting matches, driving nails, etc. It's s shame kids can't grow up like that any more. Oh, we were shooting our BB guns probably from about age 6, so we were pretty good shots even before dad bought the bolt-action, Remington Nylon 12. That rifle went to my older brother (like everything else of course!) and he taught his son to shoot with it and now, his son is teaching his kids. For a cheap little rifle from the early 1960s (they were made from 1962-64) It's still in good shape and shoots well.
I knew that this video was from the 70's by the taco shaped brim of the straw hat. Great marksman! Thanks for the video!
Love my nylon 66. It's my rabbit gun. Also have an 1100 rem skeet gun.
Living legend
This is the life that was taken from you.
Beautiful exhibition!!.. too bad Remington dosen't make guns like that!
The nylon 66 was a great rifle. Remington should have kept making them.
The Gould brothers put on gun shows for winchester. They're entertsining to watch.
I had one growing up,such a fun fun,
I remember when I was about Jr. High School age, there were ads in the outdoor magazines for the Nylon 66. As I recall, they had an address that you could send off to and get one of the hundred thousand wood blocks that had been shot by their exhibition shooter to set a record. I guess that was Tom Frye. Sadly, I never got around to sending for a block.
In one of the hardware stores in our town, there was a sheet of aluminum with and Indian Cheif's likeness, head dress and all, printed by .22 caliber holes. I always heard that it had been done by a visiting exhibition shooter. For years, I was under the impression that it had been done without any marks on the metal to go by and the shooter was firing offhand. Finally I got talking to an old fellow who had witnessed the picture's creation. He explained to me that the shooter not only didn't have a mark on the aluminum to go by and fired offhand, he also shot the entire sequence firing backwards over his shoulder while looking at the sights through a mirror! I hope he wasn't pulling my leg, if he did, he did a great job of it! In either case, I presume the shooter was Tom Frye! My father later bought a Nylon 66, it was a great gun!
Love it
I am 75 years old and still have my very first rifle.....a Remington Nylon 66. It was a cheap (about $50 around 1959). The durability of that rifle was legendary and very simple engineering design which used the most elaborate plastic mold up to that time. While Tom made it into a legendary rifle....in reality it was nothing special as far as accuracy. I have never had it misfire which says a lot about the desiogn.
Must be my age but when I think of America I think of things like this.
Bring back 🇺🇸 America.
😢saw this man demonstrate this rifle on a road trip to Rawlings Wyoming back in the good old days 😂
I have a identical nylon 66
my dad had a friend in the 50s-90s when dad passed away. i then became good friends with this man until he passed in around. 1996, dad said he could hit most anything with a 22 thrown into the air and kill a deer with a head shot as the deer ran! the man's son told me he could hit a nickel flipped in the air every time and a dime most times with a 22
I still carry a nylon 66 in my excavator clearin land
You know for varmints...4 legs or 2 legs. Never can be to safe.
A great story about Tom Frye doing his last exhibition two weeks before he died at age 66. www.distinctlymontana.com/meeting-tom-frye-montana-marksman?
Epic❤
My very first firearm was a Nylon 66. I certainly knew the 100K block story and Tom Frye's part in it. What a POS that rifle was. Mine lasted for about 2000 rounds before it started to come apart. All that plastic crap in the action, the "self-lubricative" kaka that wore away despite being oiled with the best lube money could procure, and the completely unreliable feeding mechanism that ended up making the rifle a single-shot affair.
I tossed it in the ashcan and got a 1911.
Sorry you were disappointed. Adding oil to the nylon probably contributed to the early deterioration and dysfunction.
@@geraldquinn1268 Actually, if was only after I tried thorough cleaning and a dry graphite luricant that I finally resorted to machine oil. By this time the rifle was puking its guts out on a regular basis anyway.
As a side note, I've handled Model 60s and other .22s that have had ten thousand or more rounds through them. A well-kept .22 can last a long time. The Nylon 66 was just not a good rifle.
Would have enjoyed having that job.
Why are his glasses so high up?
Some shooters, especially trap shooters, prefer their glasses to sit higher because their head is bend slightly forward when the stock is mounted to their cheek. That enables their eyes to look through the center of the glass rather than through the top. One famous maker of shooting glasses, Bud Decot, named his glasses "Hy-Wyd" to reflect how they fit.
@@geraldquinn1268 oh, cool. That's really neat.
Ah, pre diversity 🤩🥰
I would like to do this in my garden but it's illegal :v)
Was that an 870, or 1100 he was shooting?
12 ga. 870
He used an 870 with a 10-shot magazine extension in his exhibitions.
Професионал.🧐
I guess this is entertainment for some.
I remember those times, no one thought killing a person. How people have degraded along with the USA
Whoa, I thought this was joe biden at first, but then... (you finish the joke, i’m too sleepy)
1:17 nah bra😂😂😂😂
I’m sure the snowflakes would be protesting
Let's see cheif aj!!!
Who is Chief AJ?
NACHO
🇺🇲🗽⚖️👊 basic dude stuff
SCAMMER!
look at 1:23 that is an over/under barrel that shot the lettuce!
I can understand why you say that and that frame does look like an O/U. But he always used an 870 for these exhibitions - usually one with a 10-shot magazine extension that makes it look like two barrels.
Troops?
Hes at a eagle scout meeting by the look of it
Thats a nice .22 pump.
The good old days when boy's were boy's..girl's were girl's..and no cry babby anti gun nuts.
I agree totally and although I shoot and love my guns -in USA you gotta stop lettin the crazies get hold of guns ffs. I’d be a crybaby to if my kids got shot up at school or elsewhere cause some shithead who doesn’t represent shooters or anything decides to go postal on some poor kids.