ID This One?

[TRAP55]

[smle-man]

The rotating barrel is the same principle of operation as the Mexican Obregon .45 pistol from the 30s. Perhaps there is a connection with that designer. It looks to be a prototype that never went beyond that stage. Interesting!

[Vlad 11]

Wow, I've never seem anything like that. Pretty cool actually. Looks well made
Try to look up that patent # maybe

I guess its really one you can actually call 'rare'

[Mike A]

I agree with Vlad; the place to start is the patent number. What caliber is this rifle?

[bruceflinch]

Very neat find!
Are those taco sauce stains on the stock?
What is the stamp on the stock say?

[TRAP55]

Stock stamp is "FNA Mexico", and caliber is 7x57 Mauser.
Already tried a patent search, that patent number has hits on everything from copper tubing to lace up shoes, but no rifles.

[a1c]

Stock stamp is "FNA Mexico", and caliber is 7x57 Mauser.
Already tried a patent search, that patent number has hits on everything from copper tubing to lace up shoes, but no rifles.

Well that's because this is obviously a Mexican patent, not a US one.

Here it is:

http://siga.impi.gob.mx/wb/SIGA/SIGA_detalles_ficha?&ID_FICHA=2350165

Filed on March 11th, 1918, by Rafael Mendoza.

[AJAX22]

Damn....... I don't know why... but I want it

[BillnotBob]

Interesting how the rear sight is like the one on the Danish Navel Snider.

[Mssr. Eleganté]

...Filed on March 11th, 1918, by Rafael Mendoza.

Looks like his company is still going...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productos_Mendoza

http://www.productosmendoza.com/2008/quienes.php

They make the HM-3 submachinegun.

[a1c]

And here is some info on that rifle:

All of Mendoza’s design efforts in small arms up to that point had been intended for the Mexican Army. He continued that line of development between 1911 and 1918 with a 7x57 mm Mauser-cal., bolt-action, center-fire military rifle of unusual design called the “Fusil Mexico.” In appearance, the rifle seemed to be a bolt-action without a bolt handle, leaving no obvious method of operating it. But in fact, the bolt itself was connected to the fore-end and the action and barrel to the buttstock. The parts of the two-piece, wood stock met just under the receiver. To operate the action, the user rotated the pistol grip outward and backward to unlock the bolt, extract and eject the case. When the pistol grip was pushed forward and rotated downward, the bolt stripped another cartridge from the magazine, chambered it and locked the action to the bolt. The design and operation was ingenious, ergonomic and very straightforward. Mendoza’s rifle was not adopted for military service, but it remains a milestone in bolt-action rifle development.

Lifted from:

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?102516-Made-by-the-Mexican-Navy/page3

The Google-fu is strong with me today.

[Palimino Stripe]

What an interesting rifle with such an unimaginative name. I mean "Mexico Rifle"?? I could come up with dozens of better names If I gave it ANY thought.

-Palimino

[a1c]

What an interesting rifle with such an unimaginative name. I mean "Mexico Rifle"?? I could come up with dozens of better names If I gave it ANY thought.

-Palimino

National pride? The guy supplied the Mexican military at the time. I see nothing wrong with that name.

It's not like naming guns after the year of their design/military adoption is particularly imaginative either...

[bruceflinch]

That is a neat find! Good info there, a1c.

[Vlad 11]

And here is some info on that rifle:
Lifted from:

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?102516-Made-by-the-Mexican-Navy/page3

The Google-fu is strong with me today.

That it! Mighty fine Googling there, sir