Fidel Castro rifle?

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Can anyone identify Fidel Castro's rifles?

While the others in his group in the Sierra Maestra from 1956 to 1959 were armed mostly with American made military weapons captured from government forces, in photos taken at the time Castro is almost always carrying a scope-sighted sporting rifle. One appears to be a Winchester Model 70 another a Mauser with double set triggers.
 
Interestingly enough while in Cuba I read up on the revolution and both Castro and his brother Raul were trained marksman with Raul being the best shot.
There are many pictures in the revolutionary museum with revolutionary soldiers holding Mosin Nagants,SKS and Mauser rifles along with what I think were Springfields. Must was also said about how the revolutionary army suffered greatly from the lack of semiautomatic weapons which had to be captured from Batistas soldiers.

Essential reading for anyone going to or who has been to Cuba should be
"History will absolve me" which is Castro's defense to the courts for the siege on a rural garrison which some would say sparked the revolution. Much comparison of what is said has relevance to the common day throughout North America.
 
Fidel loved his rifles there's a museum in Cuba showing his collection

Here's a pic from 1957 looks like a Mauser 98 possibly a Husqvarna? with a double set trigger

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I will never go to Cuba. The Castro Brothers were just Murderers. I'd bet most of their marksman skills were shooting innocents at close quarters after they were ordered to their knees.
 
Che was the executioner/ sociopath in Cuba.He wrote letters to his family telling them how much he enjoyed killing.Women , children.........didn't matter.......the Soviets had enough and suggested he be liquidated..........shortly after Castro sent him to Bolivia and likely tipped off his whereabouts leading to his capture and execution.......Castro killed people for political reasons not for the sheer pleasure like this weasel............he's where he belongs now and the leftist idiots are still wearing his t-shirt likeness..............Harold
 
Should have been a pile of Hakims in Cuba as well.........saw a video of him shooting moose in Russia with an FNFAL..........don't recall with which Kremlin leader.........Harold
 
bat119 said:
Fidel loved his rifles there's a museum in Cuba showing his collection

Here's a pic from 1957 looks like a Mauser 98 possibly a Husqvarna? with a double set trigger

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Wonder if he used FMJ with that rifle?. Then again, maybe he never heard of the Hague Convention...or didn't care.
 
mbogo3 said:
He had a win 70 .270 at one point...........Harold
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Apparently stolen from Havana,shortly after the revolution. If you see pics of the early revolutionaries in the Sierra Madre, sporting rifles are very common. After the failed attack on the Monchada barracks, there is a film of Batista fondling a captured Boys. These guys weren't picky.

Grizz
 
mbogo3 said:
Che was the executioner/ sociopath in Cuba.He wrote letters to his family telling them how much he enjoyed killing.Women , children.........didn't matter.......the Soviets had enough and suggested he be liquidated..........shortly after Castro sent him to Bolivia and likely tipped off his whereabouts leading to his capture and execution.......Castro killed people for political reasons not for the sheer pleasure like this weasel............he's where he belongs now and the leftist idiots are still wearing his t-shirt likeness..............Harold
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nothing to do with the fact that he was shadowing Castro lol ... none of them were nice ... dont fool yourself with Fidel the nice and Che the bad ...
 
Never said Castro was nice ........he had lots of blood on his hands in his bid for total power/control ...............just not a sociopath like Che....................... Cyanide light+ cyanide ...they'll both kill you.....one is more discrete ...Harold
 
mbogo3 said:
Never said Castro was nice ........he had lots of blood on his hands in his bid for total power/control ...............just not a sociopath like Che....................... Cyanide light+ cyanide ...they'll both kill you.....one is more discrete ...Harold
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Batista and those who preceded him weren't much better, probably worse, torture and execution was their stock in trade. Netflix has a good series on the history of Cuba and how Castro came to power.

Grizz
 
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