“PROVED ON SAFARI” 1964 WINCHESTER FIREARMS PROMO FILM, AFRICAN SAFARI & BIG GAME HUNT GUNS XD46164
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This color promotional film from the fateful (by Winchester standards, anyway) year of 1964 showcases newly released Winchester sporting arms demonstrated by professional hunter David Ommanney (1931 - 2001) and Winchester Western district manager Thomas Lynott (1916 - 2006) as they undertake a five-week long African safari. Winchester firearms shown include a Model 70 bolt-action rifle, a Model 255 .22 Magnum lever-action rife, a Model 1200 pump-action shotgun, a Model 101 over/under shotgun, and a Model 1400 semi-automatic shotgun. Produced by Francis Carter Wood, Jr. Presented by Winchester Western, filmed in East Africa with the cooperation of Ker, Downey &. Selby Safaris, Ltd.
00:13 Rhinoceros on the African plain; hunter with rifle emerges from bush and shoots as rhino charges 00:35 TITLE SEQUENCE 00:53 African fauna; zebra, impala, Grant’s gazelle, kongoni (hartebeest), topi, waterbuck, warthog, lion, cape buffalo, elephants 01:45 African game birds 01:53 Giraffe 02:04 Alitalia Airlines Boeing 707 arrives in Nairobi, Kenya 02:14 Sign showing distances from Nairobi Airport to major world cities, passengers deplaning 02:26 Aero Commander 500 arrives at Arusha Airport, Tanganyika 02:36 David Ommanney introduced 02:45 Thomas Lynott, Winchester, Westem District, Manager, introduced 03:04 Column of trucks moves across the plain; Ommaney and Lynott arrive at camp 03:26 Ommaney and Lynott sight-in their rifles 03:58 Lynott demonstrates the new Winchester Model 70 rifle 06:21 Ommaney and Lynott stalk a herd of topi 06:53 Topi shot, carcass inspected 07:13 Ommaney and Lynott stalk a herd of zebras 07:40 Zebra shot, carcass inspected 07:59 Lynott demonstrates Winchester Model 255 .22 Magnum lever action rife, Maasai tribesmen fire a few shots 09:25 Lynott demonstrates new Winchester Model 1200 pump-action shotgun 11:05 Flock of sandgrouse; Ommaney and Lynott load shotguns with Winchester Super X Mark 5 shells 11:21 Sandgrouses shot, guide retrieves carcasses 12:55 Lynott switches to Winchester Model 1400 semi-automatic shotgun 13:34 Ommaney and Lynott inspect sandgrouse carcasses 14:03 Lynott explains composition of Super X Mark 5 shells 15:22 Ommaney, Lynott and guides stalk cape buffalo herd 15:40 Cape buffalo shot, carcass inspected and horns measured 17:03 Lynott “celebrated” in camp 17:21 Ommaney and Lynott shoot wildebeest, gazelle, leopard, birds, zebra 18:33 Elephants with Mount Kilimanjaro in background; CREDITS
The Winchester Repeating Arms Company was a prominent American maker of firearms, founded by Oliver Winchester in 1866, and located in New Haven, Connecticut. The company was most well known for its Model 1873 lever-action rifle, marketed as "The Gun That Won the West." By the 1960s, however, the rising cost of skilled labor was making it increasingly unprofitable to produce Winchester's classic designs, and the result was a new line of guns that replaced most of the older products in 1963-1964. The immediate reaction of the shooting press and public was overwhelmingly negative: the popular verdict was that Winchester had sacrificed quality and was no longer considered to be a prestige brand, causing a marked loss of market share. To this day, gun collectors consider "post-’64" Winchesters to be both less desirable and less valuable than their predecessors.
David Ommanney was a professional hunter who was born in Jalgaon, India in 1931. As a boy he met retired tiger hunter Jim Corbett. Dave joined Lawrence Brown & Lunan Safaris in 1952 as an apprentice and eventually won the East African Professional Hunters Award in 1958. The following year he was seriously wounded by a leopard, with a chunk of flesh torn out of his shoulders and arms.
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The hunter does his best line of B.S. to convince you that these new rifles are an "upgrade" over the pre 1964 guns. NOTHING could be further from the truth...... The 1964 Model 70 rifle was demise of gun, as a cheaply made push feed shadow of what it had been. Ruger & Remington quickly began to absorb the sales as both now had a superior product. It wasn't until 1989/90 when they introduced the "pre 64" type action
That they were able to save the fate of this ionic rifle.
Exactly right. Although I do have a push feed lightweight model 70, it is not as classy or as dependable to trust in as a controlled feed bolt. Especially if one is going up against dangerous game animals, you want every edge you can get.
Hogcock. The 64 and later Model 70 is still a better rifle than an M77 or a 700 Remington. There is absolutely nothing wrong with them. I own a couple of them. The problem in comparing
them to anything was the over the top quality of the pre 64, the greatest working man's rifle EVER made.
Tom Lynott was my grandfather and he would 100% agree with you! 🙂
So true.
2022 and the model 70 safari express with the pre64 action is still one of the best on the market
You gotta love Winchester marketing. They definitely won that battle.
I shoot both pre 64 and 64 and later Model 70 rifles. Any of them make the Remington 700 look like a dog turd.
Winchester is up and going still,making many fine rifles of many models,but the Pre'64 are sought after by many and they seldom stay on store shelf long time,
their model 1300 sucked though!!!
"free floating barrel" in the video sounds like an artillery hold for an air gun, does increase accuracy.
Many a good season has been ruined by a stock that got damp and warped/ twisted. Freefloating and bedding have done much to easen that quite a lot. If one add a good laminated woodstock,one get it even better and more stable also.
The new Winchester is not the old Winchester. The "old" Winchester made all of the guns in New Haven, and were excellent, the new ones are good, but quality was only close for the models that were made at the Belgium plant.
@@keithmoore5306 I actually liked the 1300. But the only ones I used and the 1 I have are riot guns work over van comp back in the late 90's.
I love old music , and , old , movies 🍿. And Jesus Christ
Va a caga te e l'ultim
Back in the 1980s I used to have a pre 64 Winchester but like an idiot I sold it, I remember it was very very accurate just like the swedish Mausers
About the exact time Winchester started their downward spiral was when they tried improving on something that could not be made better then nor now . Pro '64 from Africa.
They didn't try to improve it, they tried to take cost out of it.
“That’s swell Dave.” 😊
That Antelope he shot with that first Model 70 dropped like a Sack of Potatoes!..... Haha!... Excellent!.....
I'm against trophy hunting, but this is a great historical snapshot. The pre '64 Winchesters really are unbelievably high quality and craftsmanship.
Why? I mean you should eat your kill but trophy hunting is what funds most of these animal preserves
the local natives ate everything they shot, and they got a portion of the fees. that was a tremendous boost for them given that they didn't have a lot of economic opportunities .
Saying your against trophy hunting is like saying your against land management...
@@nunbiz7328 exactly
it got ate just not by the hunter!!!
The .264 Winchester Magnum. Man, what a small cannon that is! Too bad it never really caught on because it couldn't beat the slightly older 7 mm Remington Magnum. It was also overbore, which means it used more powder than normally used for the bore diameter. This shortened barrel life. Not a big deal, because this type of rifle was not shot much outside of hunting. But you can see from the video that it packed a considerable wallop.
fantastic video.
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The New Winchester Model 70, with a push feed bolt. The old Model 70 was better with the controlled round feed action. Winchester made a huge blunder here.
"This would make a great music video!" -Rammstien, probably
Too bad Winchester went down the tubes post 1964. Ditto for Africa. Watch "Adio Africa" if you can find it.
what planet are you on??? i'll take a Winchester anyday especially their ammo!!!
@Theycallmegigio Grazie!
@Theycallmegigio I just know prego and grazie.
pre 64 win. model 70 was the best rifle winchester ever made. everybody hated the post 64 . I do agree the. 264 win mag. would have been good to have for plains game in Africa.
Anymore footage about hunting 18th or 19th ? please 🙏
So would this have been too long to be a tv commercial in 64? Was this for theatrical release like a news reel? The format feels like something that you would see a company today put out on social media or as a paid episode on the outdoor network.
Do you remember Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom? Same type of production.
I believe the CZ rifles still use the Mauser type
550's which are now discontinued, replaced by 600, sad very sad
Dakota are back under another name , a d Winchester is making the crf also .
Nice marketing film pushing the new (then) range. All the features of the new rifle but none of its shortcomings like lack of Mauser genious found in the pre 64s. Those were the days. Cheers
Am I the only one that’s gonna comment on the TIGER at 17:50 ? In Africa..
Leopard.
As brutal as this may seem, they are putting more money into conservation to perpetuate the survival of these beautiful animals
1964...The M-70 cheapens. 😓
Shooting a zebra is like shooting a pony. And a Elon is like a cow.
You won today's stupid comment
Teddy Roosevelt took the Winchester lever action to Africa in 45-70 and took everything with it .
No he used the 405WCF in Africa in a 1895 model 😏
I believe it was a model 95 in 405 Winchester.
His favorite and most lethal was a Holland & Holland called ‘the big stick’. 👍🏴🇬🇧
You Don't shoot a Rhino Cow with a calf
People these are post 64 Winchester M70's.
Exactly right. Impressed checkering and cheaply finished. And the models 1200 and 1400 shotguns are the ones everyone avoids at all costs!
@@johnsweeney5946 No they don't lol..The 1200 and 1400 shotguns have worked perfectly for me through the years..
What gave it away? The title.
the film in the beginning showing the female rhino charging is because she i protecting the young trino following her - if he shot the female rhino with his "trusty" Winchester - what happened to the young rhino?
He shot it too duh.
@@ianherp5678 shootin bambi too....
Did you see him shoot the rhino? No. Just drama.
He did not shoot the rhino. They wanted a scene of a charging rhino and the surest way to do that is to excite a female with young. Shoot film and high-tail it out of there!
My pre 64 is no more accurate or reliable than my post 64. A good push feed rifle is in no way handicapped to a good control round feed rifle. Just my experience, not the regurgitation of gun rag writers and TH-cam videos.
I think you are the only one who thinks that. I have several of both. MY pre 64 rifles are more accurate, the controlled round feed is vastly superior to the push feed. The early milled receiver is of far better quality. Having said that, the 64-later rifle was still better than the Model 700 and was still an excellent rifle in it's own right. None of them are even close to a Savage 99 in the accuracy department, though. I have three, all sub moa rifles.
shooting that leopard out of the tree is the worst thing i saw on here. what a needless killing. nice guns though.
the only good is a dead cat no matter what kind or where it is!!!
@@keithmoore5306I couldn’t agree more.
@@guaporeturns9472 you're the first to return comment i expected at least a dozen cat pervs to attack the comment!
@@keithmoore5306 Most likely. I’m a lion killer , been waging war on the ever increasing lion population for the last 35 years. My local deer population is decimated .. go deer hunting and see more cats than deer. People chime in about "the natural balance” and everything else but I’m sayin shoot em all.
@@guaporeturns9472 i know exactly what you mean feral cats are destroying all the hunting areas around me too! not only that the dingbat next door feeds them and that's bring vermin animals and coyotes into the neighborhood that in have to deal with!
Well I can say they were hunting a lot of protected animals...... 😑
Not back then and not every where now.
You can say it, but it would be a stupid lie , and everyone of them can be hunted now
I didn't anything that couldn't be hunted where I hunt in SA.
Well they are protected today
@@lukeiamnotyourfatheranymore Nonsense
I am very much pro 2A and hunting for game animals. I believe the killing of elephants and other large and exotic animals is dead wrong other than for self defense or food. I don't believe these large and majestic animals are used as food sources other than perhaps for African natives living out in the bush. Winchester rifles were great until 1964 as I recall. I had a 30-30 made in 1937 I regret selling about 25 years ago.
@chinto kata True the locals would kill them all
No hunting money.. no land preservation. Sorry but it’s the world we live in.
Yes; again the ignorant one hit again!!!!
Good.more for us.
Obscene trophy hunting. Camp meat ok. Killing a zebra for a rug, reprehensible.
What do you think happens to the meat? Left for Hyenas or eaten by the locals?
virtue signal any harder and the FCC will require you to get a broadcast license
obscene judging more like it!! shove your self righteous soy poisoned opinion sideways wrapped in razorwire and spinning!!!! look down your nose at someone who gets their own meat and then goes to McDonalds or the grocery store!!! trust me that meat got ate by someone Einstein!!! just so you know i just sighted in my crossbow and am getting the iron ready for hunting season!!!
@@loginavoidence12 any harder it'll need to put on a dress and high heels!!!
@@COIcultist the locals get what isn't used at camp or as bait!! it doesn't go to waste and never did!!! don't listen to those peta perverts!!!
This. Video. Made. Me. Smile.... because... I. Was. Born. In. March. Of. 1964..... I. Consder. Myself. Fortunate.. because... I. Had. The. Pleasure. Of. Shooting... I. Don.t. know. For. Sure.... and. Would. Be. Afraid. To. Guess.... how. Many... smooth. Plastic... super...x.. Shotgun. Shells... including... 12 ga... .410 ga... and. The. Big. 10 ga... in. All. Length.s. From... 2 2l2. Thru. 3 1l2.. inch. Shells. I. Have. Also. Had. The. Privilege. Of. Shooting. Paper. Shells. Made. By. Remington...winchester. and. Federal... when. I. Was. Getting. Started. On. Grouse. And. Pheasants... back. In. The. 1970.s. my. First. Year. Or. Season. Was. 1976. Specifically..I. never. Had. A. Problem. With. Paper. Shotshells... my. Dad. Made. Me. Aware. Of. The. Potential....I. just. Kept them. In. A. Box. Or. Pocket. Even. On. The. Raining. Days. Duck. Hunts... I. Liked. Paper. Shells. Because. They. Bio degrade.. so. Well. And.worked. good. With. Ejectors.... especially. . my. Sav...fox.b...s...e... I. Used. Them. When. I. Could. Even. Digging. Thru. Old. Ammo. At. Gun. Show.s..and. dad's. Stored. Cases. From. The. Old. Days.. Especially. When. We. Started. Hunting. In. . Remote. Wilderness. Area.s. like. The. Pigeon. Or. The. Big. Hiawatha. National. Forest.. you Know.. a. Paper. Shell... with. Bismuth. Shot. Will. Allow.. a. Grouse. Hunter. In. A. Beaver.pond. Situation. To. Shoot. A wood. Duck. Teal. Or. Mallard. Legally. With. Dad.s. or. Gramp.s old. Shotgun...... the. Bismuth. Is. Non toxic...and Barrel. Friendly. To. Older. Shotguns.. and. The. Paper. Empty.s. deteriorate..s. the. Best. Thanks. For. This. Pleasant.review. have. A. Nice. Day....
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