Hello Amigos, I would like to post some photos of the Mexican Revolution and the Cristero War, both for sharing them, but also wanted some help to identify some of the guns
In the 1968 picture, are those M1936 Mauser rifles? I ask, because it looks like the rifles have open sights rather than aperture sights, and they don't seem to have that M1903 style portion of the striker behind the bolt.
I'm terrible at picking out details from old photos, but number five looks to me like a Modelo 1902 Mauser.
Those Federales with the small muzzle loader guns could be 7mm M1902 Remingtons, but the sights don't look right. Maybe in .43 Spanish still? I'll defer to experts. I thought the M1902 bayonets had a shorter blade and a ricasso or hook on the hilt, but certainly I don't know for certain.
Interesting photos! That one Cristero with the ammo even on his thighs is a trip... Almost looks like something from a film! For that matter, I suppose the colorized photo of the Cristero looks a bit like Andy García in that film...?!
Cristero, with all the ammo, Mauser Kar98 (either Original 1900 or 1905 Version, can't tell from Photo...Cal 7,9mm---Cartridges seem to be M88 Patrone ("J" type).) Distinguishing feature "Mini-Lange sight"
Other Kar88, also in M88 7,9J cartridge. ( German "Wholesaler" shipments to revolutionaries from 1910-1914, and maybe even later?).
Personally, I've always loved the photo of the campesinos from Morelos sitting with their Mausers at the baroque marble counter at Sanborn's when the Villistas and Zapatistas met briefly in the DF! In my case, it was ordering breakfast next to the "night shift" police women with MP5s...
The documentaries with Paco Ignacio Taibo II about Villa are entertaining and informative. Thanks for the great pics!
If you ever travel to ROU/Uruguay there are a couple such wall guns on display. One at Cerro in the army museum dating from the lengthy siege of Montevideo, and another in one of the old fortresses near the border with Río Grande do Sul in Brazil. Very interesting defensive armament. Although, in this case, it looks to be on the offense there in Zacatecas!
They also had bolt single-shot Jingals in both .65 and .75 gatling calibers. A wall gun is kind of a dream acquisition for me, especially since I could never afford one.
I never knew the Cristeros were so well armed! The father of a friend of mine fought them in the mountains of Jalisco as a young sublieutenant in the Federal Army, from barranca to barranca to barranca to.... Some bloody fighting with lots of casualties on both sides. Apparently it ended in the usual guerrilla vs. regular army stalemate. Some of the bad feelings apparently remain, though, even now. Religious wars are the worst.
Your Rurales artillery outfit in photo #6 appears to be equipped with No. 5 Remington rolling blocks, either M1897s, or possibly M1902s. The don't look like 1871s.
Hello Amigos, I would like to post some photos of the Mexican Revolution and the Cristero War, both for sharing them, but also wanted some help to identify some of the guns
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