And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thursday, July 1, 2021
Mexican revolutionaries hanging out before a battle (1911)
It seems they carry mostly lever-action rifles; with one Mauser-style bolt action and one sawed-off 'thing' the boy in the red jacket is carrying (bottom row, 2nd from left). Can it be that the Mauser was more expensive and sort of a status symbol?
Actually, the military bolt-actions easily outnumber the lever actions and most of the bolt guns can be identified as Mauser varieties. The guy in the blue shirt, standing-left, has a Winchester Model 1894. (You can tell by the flat contours of the bottom of the action). The white-shirted guy seated at the right also has a lever-action (tube-type magazine under the barrel) though I can't see enough of the metal to positively identify the type. The guy in the brown vested suit has a Mauser Model 1898. The cross-legged guy in the pink shirt has a military carbine (short barrel) of the type that was often issued to cavalry, engineers, etc. Note the long bullets of the ammo in his bandolier; possibly 7mm Mauser, with the 173-grain bullet. (Classic 7mm bullet; long, slim, and heavy - penetrates like nobody's business.) Interesting to see the swords, yet there isn't a handgun in sight.
Are you sure this is from 1911? I swear I just yesterday I saw these guys coming out of the pork packing plant.
ReplyDeleteIt seems they carry mostly lever-action rifles; with one Mauser-style bolt action and one sawed-off 'thing' the boy in the red jacket is carrying (bottom row, 2nd from left).
ReplyDeleteCan it be that the Mauser was more expensive and sort of a status symbol?
Actually, the military bolt-actions easily outnumber the lever actions and most of the bolt guns can be identified as Mauser varieties. The guy in the blue shirt, standing-left, has a Winchester Model 1894. (You can tell by the flat contours of the bottom of the action). The white-shirted guy seated at the right also has a lever-action (tube-type magazine under the barrel) though I can't see enough of the metal to positively identify the type. The guy in the brown vested suit has a Mauser Model 1898. The cross-legged guy in the pink shirt has a military carbine (short barrel) of the type that was often issued to cavalry, engineers, etc. Note the long bullets of the ammo in his bandolier; possibly 7mm Mauser, with the 173-grain bullet. (Classic 7mm bullet; long, slim, and heavy - penetrates like nobody's business.) Interesting to see the swords, yet there isn't a handgun in sight.
ReplyDeleteThe guy front right looks like he belongs somewhere else.
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