Now they are outfitted:)

[Jefferry404]

Not sure where I got this but they are sure

ready…
Steve

 

[K-man]

Great photo! I tried to pick up one of those loaded bandoliers once, can't imagine carrying one around like that!

 

[Luvthunt]

Quantity makes up for Quality Shooting.

 

[Altitude sickness]

They appear to have actually been in a gunfight or two. I get the impression those are not for show. Especially when they are days away from re supply

 

[Ontario Hunter]

Pancho Villa's army of revolutionaries/bandits/terrorists. The bandoliers are mostly decoration to pose for photos. It's something he popularized. How he branded himself and his gang. Made more sense than spending money on uniforms.

 

[mark-hunter]

Why would they have belted ammo?
Did they by any chance had some of early machineguns, like Maxim?

 

[GuttormG]

Why would they have belted ammo?
Did they by any chance had some of early machineguns, like Maxim?

Cant remember what movie but an older Western. Tough mexican (bad) guys with 7,62Nato in machingun belts over the shoulder. And singel-action revolvers and lever-actions.

I tend to laugh at the wrong places in movies

 

[uplander01]

Well, they won't lose for lack of shooting back.

 

[deewayne2003]

Cant remember what movie but an older Western. Tough mexican (bad) guys with 7,62Nato in machingun belts over the shoulder. And singel-action revolvers and lever-actions.

I tend to laugh at the wrong places in movies

A lot of the old westerns have Mexicans wearing bandoliers filled with 7x57 ammo while toting winchesters and colts.

As for the picture above; I wouldn’t be surprised if this was from the Mexican American war era.

FYI - that was the conflict that a young officer named George Patton used his newly acquired colt single action army to kill 3 Mexicans that surprised his patrol while inspecting a homestead.

 

[Sarg]

Cool old photo, all that ammo & belts would compromise your hand to hand ability ?
Then again with all that ammo you shouldn’t be in any close quarters fighting ?

 

[Ontario Hunter]

Why would they have belted ammo?
Did they by any chance had some of early machineguns, like Maxim?

Not belted ammo. Bandoliers hold ammo for rifles. Each round must be manually removed and loaded in the rifle.

 

[GuttormG]

A lot of the old westerns have Mexicans wearing bandoliers filled with 7x57 ammo while toting winchesters and colts.

Yes, but this time it was modern steel ammo belts

 

[Russ16]

Guess we know where they stand on the ammo pouch vs culling belt discussion.

My great grandfather and his brother caught and broke wild horses in west Texas back then. They sold them to buyers from Pershing’s army.

 

[CJW]

Furthest to the right didn't get the memo.

 

[Daggaboy375]

There is at least two, maybe three 1895 Winchesters in the bunch.

A lot of Texas Rangers had a fond appreciation for the 1895 in 30-06 also.

The guy on the right is clearly admin.

DB

 

[Luvthunt]

Bet the guy on the right hit what he was shooting at so did not need all that psych BS

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

A lot of the old westerns have Mexicans wearing bandoliers filled with 7x57 ammo while toting winchesters and colts.

As for the picture above; I wouldn’t be surprised if this was from the Mexican American war era.

FYI - that was the conflict that a young officer named George Patton used his newly acquired colt single action army to kill 3 Mexicans that surprised his patrol while inspecting a homestead.

The Mexican American War was 1846-48. A little early for George Patton.

You may be thinking about the Punitive Expedition in 1917, led by BG John J. Pershing.

The United States Armed Forces and the Mexican Punitive Expedition: Part 1

En Español Fall 1997, Vol. 29, No. 3 | Genealogy Notes By Mitchell Yockelson Eighty years ago, in February 1917, the last of the U.S. troops serving in the Mexican Punitive Expedition recrossed the border from Palomas, Chihuahua, Mexico, into Columbus, New Mexico. Eleven months earlier the...

www.archives.gov

 

[Hogpatrol]

If one ever hunts springhares at night during mating season (which seems to be all the time), one of those bandoliers is a plus.