Out Of Africa: A Rifle of Denys Finch Hatton

[@jimwall5350]

What an amazing rifle! The history of it is so properly presented, well done!

[@frankmccarthy2624]

Out of Africa has to be my favorite movie

[@MBCGRS]

My father was a Professional Hunter in the 50s & 60s. He gave me a Mannlicher-Schonauer in 270 win for my 16th birthday. 40 years later I still hunt with it. As Elmer Kieth said, only an English double rifle is more reliable.

[@politicallyincorrectandpro5856]

A Mauser 98 as well….

[@MBCGRS]

@politicallyincorrectandpro5856 No, I'm sorry the Schonauer magazine is in a reliability class of its own. Unequaled even by Mauser.

[@MrPh30]

​@@MBCGRS Savage 99 borrowed the Mannlicher Magazine also, and some Ruger models, Varberger and Kongsberg Lakelander rifles

[@steveelder5306]

"A damned adequate coyote rifle" he also wrote lol.

[@stellajohnson5301]

Please stop hunting. It is nothing to be proud of.

[@malcolmmacgregor6222]

A wonderful story about the remarkable DFH. Hunter, soldier, adventurer, explorer and gentleman. Thank you

[@paulsimmons5726]

That story was so entertaining and his rifle was a complete show-stopper! I’m glad I decided to watch this video, thank you for sharing this story! Oh, to have won the lottery last year, lol! Good luck with the auction of this beautiful piece of African history!

[@Joakim-j7h]

What an amazing story, makes all the diffrance to make this magnificent rifle even greater. Thank you for sharing!

[@chrisloomis1489]

Beautiful tale ; thank you for sharing Sir. 🇺🇸

[@rupertmcnaughtdavis3649]

Beryl Markham lived quite close to me in the Somerset West area of the Western Cape, here in South Africa.

[@Swngflwr]

As a quarter bore man myself. I say hell yes!

[@coldandaloof7166]

What a beutiful rifle, and story.

[@sgtmajtrapp3391]

Magnificent rifle what a history this Mannlicher Schoenauer has.

[@RR93Hunter]

Amazing story of a real great hunter of the XX century! Beautiful gun.

[@MrPh30]

Ammo is based of cutdown 6,5*57 Mauser case to 55 so easy to make more of if needed .

[@ronaldjohnson1474]

So many beautiful firearms to be sold! Your inaugural auction in Beaumont should be spectacular.

[@RockIslandAuctionCompany]

Not quite Beaumont. We’re in Bedford, just 15 min away from DFW airport.

[@Satu-zs7gm]

his grandmother was the ironically named Fanny Rice who became Countess of Winchelsea, her mother was Elizabeth Austen, niece of Jane Austen

[@billfisher6708]

Wow! Awesome history lesson on the man and rifle.

[@daemonharper3928]

I've read several books by Beryl Markham, Karen Blixen and others which talk about Finch Hatton - a very interesting period of history in a very interesting place. Apparently modesty and morals were left at home - and in Africa the white settlers and hunters lived very raucous and scandalous lives.....lots of gin - and free love 50 years before the hippies. A great gun to own and I bet it still shoots straighter than its owner. I'm very interested in learning it's eventual sale price.

[@billshepherd4331]

The wood on that rifle. Wow!!!!!!!!

[@kenaidog6974]

More of a pot rifle than a dangerous game stopping rifle. Fletcher used the 256 for ivory hunting which is totally different than stopping dangerous game charges.

[@davidbrock1565]

Thank you for giving me some winter project ideas. 45 LC!!

[@alexkalish8288]

Very fine rifle but not something he would have carried in Lion country, way too light a cartridge for serious work. Fitch carried a 375 H &H and a 416 Rigby in the bush. Looks like a presentation piece , beautifully made but rarely used (if ever). He commanded a regiment of the African rifles - there were only 3 - he was famous in Kenya for his closeness to the natives and his skill with Lions.

[@MrPh30]

Could have been for the pot, medium game and camp borrowed rifle also.

[@alexkalish8288]

@@MrPh30 looks like it was handled with velvet gloves but you could be right.

[@pamtnman1515]

I got excited. I thought it was the Charles Lancaster double rifle

[@Mythteller]

Ah, the hunting rifle in pre-war and interwar years used in Africa and in North America and Latin America. But these rifles made way for the modern bolt-action sniper rifles😎

[@astridvallati4762]

There is also a small Sugar Producing Town just west of Mackay ( Qld., Australia), called " Finch-Hatton". What the Family connection is IDK. DocAV

[@Satu-zs7gm]

the town was named after Denys uncle, Hon. Harold Heneage Finch-Hatton. Finch-Hatton itself was such an unusual name, basically it formed because Edward Finch inherited property from his mother the Hattons ( relation and heir of Sir Christopher Hatton, chancellor to Elizabeth I ) hence they take the name and became Finch-Hatton all the finch properties had been disposed off, but they still owned the Hatton properties such as Kirby Hall and some part of Hatton garden in London

[@marc4199]

Sold for $41,125 at auction.

[@johndilday1846]

I would love to be able to visit your Bedford location someday, now that I live in Texas. What amazing things you offer for sale. It would be an awesome retirement job, but alas, I live in Texarkana, and that is too far to commute, even on Texas highways, lol. Thanks for sharing.

[@josephhughes1498]

I swear one of his guns was sold in another auction recently or maybe it was one of Bror Blixen’s I’m not sure

[@dxpvxo711]

So what did it sell for

[@RockIslandAuctionCompany]

WELL over its estimate. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqu3cmidmd6rpacsi=LYROdvUw3yL_qV7k

[@El_hombre1965]

One of my dad's cousin, married into the family of Karen Blixen, and my 6th cousin once removed, married Bror Blixen's cousin 🦓

[@butzbach1]

Would love to hear more on this.

[@onmilo]

I'm predicting that rifle with that provenance is going to bring a figure somewhere north of $400!😃

[@acharyajamesoermannspeaker6563]

400 gold sovreigns?

[@dennisst.pierre210]

I’ll start the bid. $900.00

[@RockIslandAuctionCompany]

That's the spirit!

[@3ducs]

I like people to talk to me, not gaze away at someone else. The camera technique of having the narrator look at something else turns me off, I stopped watching at 1:40 even though I was interested in the subject.

[@Old_8_gauge]

Couldn't pay me to go to Africa... Nice gun though

[@Heegooat]

You are an honourable man. Africans and whites will never be able to coexist. In fact the next generations of Africans will be very anti white. As of now we are strangely xenophilic. The next century will be very interesting

[@acharyajamesoermannspeaker6563]

Why sell such a piece to the public?

[@par4par72]

You know. This is part of history id rather forget. Shooting animals that pose no threat. indiscriminately.

[@ca9968]

As a South African and avid hunter since my early teens, I agree...if you can`t eat it, don`t shoot it...

[@MrPh30]

Hunting becomes more important for each year that comes now . With the way society turns ,and both for food gathering and protection from predator game and maneaters / marauders worldwide.

[@marcwiart5657]

Some things haven't changed. You still can if you happen to be a nauseatingly rich self entitled man child. That said, love to have that rifle!

[@MBCGRS]

@ca9968 What about pest control. Like the taste of Baboon, do you...? You're not the only African in the world, my friend.

[@ericwilliams2317]

A wonderful life. It's just a shame he had to needlessly kill so many beautiful animals and I'm glad those days are resigned to the history books....Mostly.

[@gou8147]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jacquynoack5534]

You are clearly uninformed the ground work layered by men like this is the reason there are still beautiful animals in abundance in Africa

[@ericwilliams2317]

@@jacquynoack5534 I love the way hunters consider their actions as 'helping' animals. Wasn't it mainly about earning a living? Over the centuries have species been taken to the edge of extinction by people hunting? Those animals should be grateful to have been 'helped'!

[@ericwilliams2317]

​@@jacquynoack5534Sorry, I forgot to mention in my earlier reply that I too am a shooter, with over 40 yrs experience, first in the military (royal navy) and now long range target shooting, also I own a number of firearms from .223 up to .284 win, and I wouldn't kill an animal unless my life was in danger from one, but then I wouldn't put myself in a position to be in danger. If you want to kill, join the military and go to war.

[@MrPh30]

Safari and Shikarii is growing more and more worldwide. Free food it is ,not controlled by any one.,whats on decline is ara and vegans .

[@danewhitt489]

I would love to add that to my collection.