The Mauser Model 1936 was a Mauser

bolt-action Bolt-action is a type of manual firearm action that is operated by ''directly'' manipulating the bolt via a bolt handle, which is most commonly placed on the right-hand side of the weapon (as most users are right-handed). Most bolt-action ...

rifle designed in

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

. Chambered in

7×57mm Mauser The 7×57mm Mauser (designated as the 7 mm Mauser or 7×57mm by the SAAMI and 7 × 57 by the C.I.P.) is a first-generation smokeless powder rimless bottlenecked rifle cartridge. It was developed by Paul Mauser of the Mauser company in ...

, it mixed features from the

Gewehr 98 The Gewehr 98 (abbreviated G98, Gew 98, or M98) is a German bolt-action rifle made by Mauser, firing cartridges from a five-round internal clip-loaded magazine. It was the German service rifle from 1898 to 1935, when it was replaced by the Kar ...

with others from the

M1903 Springfield The M1903 Springfield, officially the United States Rifle, Caliber .30-06, Model 1903, is an American five-round magazine-fed, bolt-action service repeating rifle, used primarily during the first half of the 20th century. The M1903 was first ...

Design

The Model 1936 was of Mexican design. Externally, it was similar to M1903 Springfield, using the same type of cocking piece, swivel and front-side band but keep the Mauser 98 action of the Mexican-made Mauser Model 1910. The bolt of the rifle doesn't interchange with any other Mauser but a Mexican one. It also featured a

pistol grip On a firearm or other tools, a pistol grip is a distinctly protruded handle underneath the main mechanism, to be held by the user's hand at a more vertical (and thus more ergonomic) angle, similar to the how one would hold a conventional pis ...

, finger grooves and used the old bayonet of the Model 1895.

History

Around 50,000 were produced for the

Mexican Army The Mexican Army ( es, Ejército Mexicano) is the combined land and air branch and is the largest part of the Mexican Armed Forces; it is also known as the National Defense Army. The Army is under the authority of the Secretariat of National ...

and the

Federal Police A law enforcement agency (LEA) is any government agency responsible for the enforcement of the laws. Jurisdiction LEAs which have their ability to apply their powers restricted in some way are said to operate within a jurisdiction. LEAs ...

at the governmental ''Fábrica Nacional de Armas'' between 1936 and 1947. The Model 1936 was later derived into the

Mexican Mauser Model 1954 The Mexican Mauser Model 1954, officially designated Mosquetón Mod. 1954, was a Mexican Mauser-type bolt-action rifle, produced in Mexico. Derived from the Mexican-made Mauser Model 1936, it used many of the M1903 Springfield rifle features, i ...

. In the 1960s, it was still used by units of the

Mexican Armed Forces The Mexican Armed Forces ( es, Fuerzas Armadas de México) are the military forces of the United Mexican States. The Spanish crown established a standing military in colonial Mexico in the eighteenth century. After Mexican independence in 1821, ...

and militias.

References

* * * {{cite book, last=Smith, first=Joseph E., title=Small Arms of the World, url=https://archive.org/details/smallarmsofworld00smit, url-access=registration, edition =11, location=Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, publisher= The Stackpole Company, year=1969, page
514–519
chapter=Mexico, isbn=9780811715669 Mauser rifles Rifles of Mexico Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1936 7×57mm Mauser rifles